I was watching Binyamin Netanyahu, previous soldier and prime minister, presently Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset in Israel being interviewed on BBC. George Alegaya was persistently trying to pin him down but he was firm, logical and steadfast. He said,' I know you are trying to get me to criticise the govt. and you are very good at your job but we are at war and I will not do it.' Later in the programme Hartalk he staunchly defended the actions of his country in hitting Hezbollah. What a difference with our politicians who were trying to make political capital after the Mumbai blasts where so many innocents were butchered. As expected last week parliament passed a motion critical of Israel's attempt to defend itself. I remember in the 70s when my parents got their passports their was a rubber stamp saying that the passport was not valid for travel to Israel, Albania and South Africa. Growing up in Nehru's India all I saw was unstinting support for the Palestinians and hostility to Israel although Israel always wanted to be friends with us. So what did we get for all this support? Every time we fought with Pakistan the Arabs would support the Pakis with money and arms. Even now the terrorists who are killing innocents are being financed by the Arab countries. The terrorists who are carrying out such slaughter do not realise that Arabs look down on muslims in the subcontinent. In Saudi Arabia muslims from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are routinely humiliated, beaten and given the most filthy work. Arabs have 2 words for friend, 'rafiq' which is used for low class and 'sadiq' which is used for equals. Muslims from here are always addressed as rafiq. Only once did a rich Saudi make the mistake of addressing me as rafiq and I told him that he, his family and his entire blankety blank country were rafiqs. He ran from there. A muslim would never dare.