'India should press for sanctions against Israel'

And since we're on the subject of India.....

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Slamming the Centre's "mild" response against "Israeli aggression" on Lebanon, CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat on Thursday asked the government to demand international sanctions against Israel and to suspend arms purchases from that country.

"We have been mild on Israel. The government of India should demand that Israel stop aggression on Lebanon and press for international sanctions being imposed on Israel," Karat told a meet-the-press programme here.

Holding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had been soft towards Israel as he did not speak against that country when it raided the Gaza Strip in the past, Karat said on this count, the government had been toeing the line of the previous NDA regime.

He said there was no justification for Israel to destroy the whole of Lebanon for the abduction of two of its soldiers, which was condemned by all.

How many mistatements dare I say lies are readily identifiable? Several. First Israel is hardly destroying the "whole of Lebanon" as their strikes have been surgical in application, civilian casualties and damage to Lebanese infrastructure have been minimal.

No jutification? I suppose India would just sit ideally by as their soldiers were kidnapped and barrages of rockets reigned down daily on New Delhi and Mumbai indiscriminantly killing and maiming it's citizenry.

Additionally Komrade Prakash' chacterization of criminal roundups in Gaza as "raids" is at the very least specious.

Mild response, maybe no response whatsoever is called for. Let the Israelis do what the Lebanese army could not or would not do, enforce UN 1559 and castrate the murdering terrorist scumbags we all know as Hezbollah.