Both Israel and India are exploiting the international community's focus on Covid-19 Opinion | cjwerleman
When France was distracted with a national election and a range of unresolved domestic issues in 1936, Nazi Germany seized it as an opportunity to violate the Treaty of Versailles by remilitarising the Rhineland. This buffer zone had been established in the aftermath of World War I to prevent it from threatening its western neighbours.
The words "never let a crisis go to waste" also ring loud and true for both Israel and India, with each using the fog of the Covid-19 pandemic to expand their respective settler-colonial projects in occupied or disputed territory and in defiance of international law. Bennett was referring to the government's decision to authorise the construction of 7,000 additional housing units in the settlement of Efrat, which constitutes a war crime "meant to deny Palestinians the basis for a real statehood and a viable economy," according to the United Nations, and thus international law.
Last month, New Delhi passed a new set of laws for Indian administered Kashmir, including domicile rights for Indian citizens, paving the way for soldiers and their families, or specifically those who have lived in the territory for 15 years or longer, to purchase and own property. In mirroring the Israeli model, however, India will predictably turn military outposts into small settlements; small settlements into large settlements; and then large settlements into small cities, complete with shopping centres, schools, recreational facilities and 24-hour military-backed security.
Clearly, India is exploiting the international community's focus on the Covid-19 pandemic to advance its Hindu settler-colonial project in Kashmir – and clearly, Israel is doing same to advance its Zionist settler-colonial project in the Palestinian territories.
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