Bharatiya Janata Party members are probably not the only Indians to look enviously at Benjamin Netanyahu who has just enacted a law reiterating that Israel is a monocultural country — of, for and by Jews only.
Not that anyone ever thought the Jewish homeland was a multicultural paradise for Muslims, Christians and Hindus. But despite being the region’s strongest military power, Israel’s ruling Likud coalition feels insecure enough to have to remind its Arabs — nearly 21 per cent of the population — that they are there on sufferance.
What the world — especially India with its heavy
Not that anyone ever thought the Jewish homeland was a multicultural paradise for Muslims, Christians and Hindus. But despite being the region’s strongest military power, Israel’s ruling Likud coalition feels insecure enough to have to remind its Arabs — nearly 21 per cent of the population — that they are there on sufferance.
What the world — especially India with its heavy
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