The remarkable aspect of the Israel-US polemics is that all the sobriquets hoisted on the state of Israel visa viv its ties with US,be it the pining lapdog or the lording master descriptions,all these have by and large come from non Israelis,and most of time it is intended to criticize the US and not specifically directed at Israel.Through all this,here is a small country,with a very large heart,bravely contending all challenges,in its case mostly existential in nature,and still be able to carry its head high among the gathering of world nations,making no less a contribution to all those pursuits that characteristic human excellence.
How do they do that ?....It probably boils down to a very simple approach,at no stage in its short national career,has the Jewish state ever compromised the interests of her core society,over some exalted principle of international statecraft.If they had to raze down a township, that threatened the Jewish society,they did it with a moments hesitation,if they had to violate sovereign airspace,storm another nations air port,in order to protect their citizen,they did,international opinion be damned.
India and Israel provide contrasting images of evolving nationhood,Here are two modern countries,both products of infinitely ancient civilizations,yet have adopted diverging outlooks to state forming.One has formed a state and its society,towards securing whose interests,all principles of political organization become subservient,then there is the other country,where the exercise of state formation and nation building,is held hostage to an antiquated principle.