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From: rajeev@sfmag.UUCP (S.Rajeev)
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Subject: Re: Israeli Indian Relations
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 18:47:09 EST
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hector!martillo writes:
> 
> I think I could easily have been against the formation of India on the
> grounds of potential anarchy in the subcontinent.  Certainly more people
> have been killed in Muslim/non-Muslim violence in India than in the 
> Middle East.

It wasn't the "formation" of India but the partition of India that
result in the violence and bloodshed in 1947. If you are saying that
you would have opposed the partition of India, that is a perfectly
reasonable statement and has nothing whatsoever to do with what Sinha
was saying.

> 
> Given the amount of lies and hypocrisy in Sinha's article, I would, if I
> were an Israeli and if Sinha's attitudes were typical of Indians, be quite
> glad that Israel and India had little in the way of relations.
> 
> Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami

Sinha's posting never reached this site, so I guess I shall never
know what  abominable "lies and hypocrisy" he propounded that 
Martillo had to respond with such a fulsome tirade.  
In any case, Sinha is just an individual expressing an opinion.
What about Israel, where such luminaries as Sharon 
and Kahane , if they do not set public policy, are
certainly highly influential? I don't need to go into the lies and
hypocrisies these worthies have espoused. To take your argument to
its logical conclusion, Martillo, would that mean NOBODY
should have diplomatic relations with Israel? People in glass houses....

Martillo, you would do us all a great favor if you'd try to be a
little more circumspect when you shoot your mouth off.

			S. Rajeev

(whose opinions have nothing to do with his employer).