An example

Submitted by Arun Gupta (United States), Dec 28, 2002 at 07:10

This is from an Associate Professor and Director of International Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, CT.

http://www.between-lines.org/archives/2002/feb/Vijay_Prashad.htm

Imperialism, Israel & India
Hindutva-Zionism: An Alliance of the New Epoch
Vijay Prashad

Quoting the last paragraph :
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India and Israel could not be major players in the US-UK's Fifth Afghan War, because, as the Pakistanis made clear, the coalition must have an Islamic face. Nevertheless, the aftermath of 9/11 and of the war reveals certain trends toward the creation of a Tel Aviv-New Delhi-Washington axis that will have an important role in the southern and western parts of Asia. In January 2002, the US cleared the sale of the Israeli Phalcon early warning radar systems to India (a deal worth $1 billion); the US had earlier stopped the deal with the argument that it might escalate tensions in the subcontinent. Now with tensions at war point, the US allows the sale. Meanwhile, the Chinese sold two squadrons (46) of F-7 MG fighter jets to Pakistan, a sale that enables the Pakistani Air Force to reach aerial parity with India. India wants to emulate the Israeli path to being a regional power with international prestige, at whatever the social or human cost. Israel sees India as a vast market for its arms, and as an ally against what it calls the Islamic world. The US, under the right, is eager to see a new configuration that includes India and Israel to encircle both Islam and Communism, to dispatch the new bogeymen of the 21st Century. These are dark times.
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