Sonia Gandhi Slams Modi Govt's Stony Silence on Gaza Genocide

In a blistering attack on the Modi government, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said its "stony silence" and "inaction" on Israel's "Gaza genocide" are not just morally reprehensible but also inexplicable from a national interest perspective. 

Gandhi, the Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson, claimed that India has alienated itself from its historical allies in Palestine, Iran, and the larger Middle East and has distanced itself from global public opinion, while letting Pakistan swoop in to claim the space of a



mediator.

Gandhi also termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Israel ahead of the US-Israel joint attack on Iran, a "bewildering strategic decision". 

The Congress leader said the spirit of Indian nationhood demands that it speaks up for Palestinians whose children have been so brutally targeted and the calculus of national interest demands that India respond to the global public opinion against the Israeli regime's "genocidal actions" in Gaza and its "brutal displacement and dispossession of lakhs of Palestinian families in the occupied West Bank".