It is extraordinary that Israel, the occupier, calls for a ‘war’ against the occupied.

Azad Essa's 'Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel' has courage and integrity. It traces the beginning of India-Israel ties, unmasks successive governments, and carries a warning for the future.

Apart from deepening ties with Tel Aviv on all fronts, especially military, the Hindutva ideologues in power in India draw great inspiration from the Israeli model of nationalism and repression.

On foreign policy matters, unlike on domestic policies, party differences in the US or those between liberals and the hard right are minor and tactical, never strategic.

Israel has now come to serve as something of a model for the kind of society the current rulers of India want to build.

Exclusive Economic Zones have encouraged the process of privatising the seas, at the cost of protecting the oceanic environment.

The ‘deal of the century’ demands that Palestinians officially accept that Israel has no responsibility for its inaugural act of ethnic cleansing and all brutalities on Palestinians since.

The long-term aim is a Hindutva version of Israel.

The praise showered on Vajpayee, India’s 'statesmanlike' far-right leader, by Indian liberals shows how far to the right the country has moved.