‘Diminished India’s moral standing’: Congress on PM Modi’s speech in Israeli Parliament
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The Congress on Thursday criticised the speech delivered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Israeli Parliament a day earlier, claiming that it “diminished India’s moral standing”.
In a social media post, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh described the speech as an “unabashed defence” of Modi’s host, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On Wednesday, the Indian prime minister told the Israeli Parliament that New Delhi stood with Israel “firmly, with full conviction, in this moment and beyond”. He made the comment while expressing India’s condolences for the deaths of 1,200 persons, mostly Israelis, during the attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023.
“We feel your pain” and “share your grief”, Modi told the Knesset.
On Thursday, Ramesh referred to an article written by Eitay Mack, an Israeli lawyer and human rights activist, in The Wire on Wednesday.
In his article, Mack said that the Indian prime minister “acted and spoke like the leader of a minor state visiting a global power, desperate to curry favour”. He added that Modi “humiliated” himself and India.
Referring to the article, the Congress MP said that the lawyer had “exposed the sham of the prime minister’s…address to the Knesset yesterday that diminished India’s moral standing”.
He also said that during his speech, Modi had drawn “attention to the fact that India...