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“Land of Israel” and Palestine: The First Phase of the Creation of Der Judenstaat
The historical background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict goes back to 1917 (the Balfour Declaration) and the establishment of the British protectorate over Palestine (the Palestine Mandate) after WWI with its provision for a national home for the Jews, although formally not to be at the expense of the local inhabitants – the...
India, Egypt and Geopolitics of West Asia
Recently author of this article was on a tour of a country in North Africa with several millennia old civilisation, namely Egypt. It’s land frontiers border Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and Israel to the northeast (all it’s neighbours are going through internal or external conflicts), and also borders the Mediterranean and Red...
P75 (1) Submarines and Strategic Partnership Model
Summary The Project 75(I) will provide an opportunity for local manufacture of the state-of-the-art submarines which will enable the Indian Navy to dominate the undersea domain in our area of interest whilst providing the Indian industry an opportunity for long-term partnership in not only submarine construction but also maintenance, logistics...
Uncle Sam, fellow democracies should be respected and not scorned
India can easily retort by showing the mirror to the US, Germany and others about the problems these countries face at home. But there is nothing to be gained by resorting to polemics with countries we consider as friends and partners Western countries have dominated the rest of the world for centuries. This has ingrained in them some...
Rahul Sankrityayan’s Tibet connect debunks false Chinese Narrative
During the annual ‘Two Meetings’ in Beijing, it was announced that China’s defence budget for 2024 would be $231.36 billion, an increase of 7.2 per cent from the previous year (about thrice the size of the Indian defence budget); it is a large increase, especially when one knows that official figures are only a fraction of the actual...