02-13-2009, 05:21 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Not being too comfortable with all this acrimony over Hindu-Jewish
summiteering, I must nonetheless compliment Sandhya on being every
inch an investigative journalist, a fact-finder.
So this Rabbi Metzger is a less than admirable character? Well,
maybe. If Swami Dayananda and Rajiv Malhotra invest so much in
building bridges with the Jews, it may be for better reasons than a
personal liking for controversial individuals. Hindus already don't
have too many friends abroad, for one, so an alliance with the Jews
may be useful, for both parties in fact.
I am aware that Sandhya belongs to the school that dismisses all non-
Hindu or non-Indian friends as unwanted busybodies, she thinks that
Hindu Indians can win their own war without the meddling of PIOs,
NRIs, RNIs, non-Indian converts etc. Well, I do wish them victory.
But as an outsider, I seem to be missing some key information that
she apparently has, information that warrants confidence in an
unaided Hindu victory. As merely a reader of what Hindus write, I
only notice plenty of desparation about the overwhelmingly negative
odds, the MMMM's omnipresent dominance etc. So, it seems that some
powerful friends on the outside are not a luxury you can spurn like
that.
As Sandhya will certainly affirm, American Jews have a sizable
influence on US foreign policy. Now, just imagine that with an anti-
Hindu and anti-Indian government in Delhi like the present UPA,
Washington would truly be pouncing on Delhi to release Kashmir, to
treat itself to "Azadi from Kashmir", to just hand Kashmir to
Pakistan as a sweetener to pak for a free American hand in the NWFP
and Afghanistan. After all, that's what many in Washington do
consider the required step forward in South Asia. Fortunately, there
are some in Washington who have not followed GW Bush (who in this
regard may yet turn out to be followed faithfully by Obama) in
swallowing Pakistan's mocking professions of togetherness in the war
on terror. There are some there who do think Pak deserves the
thumbscrews. Those are the Jewish neoconservatives. they may do it
for other reasons than sympathy for Bharat, but that's political
alliance-building. In my estimation of the power equation, Hindus are
at present not that strong that they can afford to spurn such
alliances.
Kind regards,
KE
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summiteering, I must nonetheless compliment Sandhya on being every
inch an investigative journalist, a fact-finder.
So this Rabbi Metzger is a less than admirable character? Well,
maybe. If Swami Dayananda and Rajiv Malhotra invest so much in
building bridges with the Jews, it may be for better reasons than a
personal liking for controversial individuals. Hindus already don't
have too many friends abroad, for one, so an alliance with the Jews
may be useful, for both parties in fact.
I am aware that Sandhya belongs to the school that dismisses all non-
Hindu or non-Indian friends as unwanted busybodies, she thinks that
Hindu Indians can win their own war without the meddling of PIOs,
NRIs, RNIs, non-Indian converts etc. Well, I do wish them victory.
But as an outsider, I seem to be missing some key information that
she apparently has, information that warrants confidence in an
unaided Hindu victory. As merely a reader of what Hindus write, I
only notice plenty of desparation about the overwhelmingly negative
odds, the MMMM's omnipresent dominance etc. So, it seems that some
powerful friends on the outside are not a luxury you can spurn like
that.
As Sandhya will certainly affirm, American Jews have a sizable
influence on US foreign policy. Now, just imagine that with an anti-
Hindu and anti-Indian government in Delhi like the present UPA,
Washington would truly be pouncing on Delhi to release Kashmir, to
treat itself to "Azadi from Kashmir", to just hand Kashmir to
Pakistan as a sweetener to pak for a free American hand in the NWFP
and Afghanistan. After all, that's what many in Washington do
consider the required step forward in South Asia. Fortunately, there
are some in Washington who have not followed GW Bush (who in this
regard may yet turn out to be followed faithfully by Obama) in
swallowing Pakistan's mocking professions of togetherness in the war
on terror. There are some there who do think Pak deserves the
thumbscrews. Those are the Jewish neoconservatives. they may do it
for other reasons than sympathy for Bharat, but that's political
alliance-building. In my estimation of the power equation, Hindus are
at present not that strong that they can afford to spurn such
alliances.
Kind regards,
KE
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