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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 29-Apr-2014
29-Apr-14 World View -- India's Narendra Modi says he'll deport 'Bangladeshis'

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29-Apr-14 World View -- India's Narendra Modi says he'll deport 'Bangladeshis'

John Kerry says that Israel could become 'an apartheid state'

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India's Narendra Modi says he'll deport 'Bangladeshis'
John Kerry says that Israel could become 'an apartheid state'
Dozens killed in Iraq bombing two days before election

India's Narendra Modi says he'll deport 'Bangladeshis'

Narendra Modi (AP)

Narendra Modi (AP)

Self-described Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) Narendra Modi, the leader of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and expected to be the next prime minister, said on Sunday that he would deport Bangladeshi immigrants:

""I want to warn from here, brothers and sisters write down, that after May 16, I will send these Bangladeshis beyond the border with their bags and baggages."

He alleged that one of his opponents supported "vote bank policies," that allowed illegal Bangladeshi immigrants to obtain forged voting IDs and ration cards for votes.

"You are spreading the red carpet for the Bangladeshis for the sake of votebank politics. If people from Bihar come, they seem to be outsiders to you. If people from Odisha come, they seem to be outsiders to you. You feel bad if Marwaris come.

But if some Bangladeshi comes, your face seems to shine. This country cannot run like this. We won't allow you to destroy the country for the sake of your vote bank politics."

Bangladesh was separated from India by the Partition, the 1947 partitioning of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan, leading to an extremely bloody war between Hindus and Muslims. A 1971 civil war within Pakistan itself led to the separation of Pakistan from East Pakistan, which became Bangladesh.

In previous statements about deporting Bangladeshis, he appeared to distinguish Hindus from Muslims. In February, he said: "We have a responsibility toward Hindus who are harassed and suffer in other countries. Where will they go? India is the only place for them. Our government cannot continue to harass them. We will have to accommodate them here."

Actually, he's been all over the map on this issue of "Bangladeshis." Last month he alleged a conspiracy to eliminate rhinoceros to make way:

"Aren't rhinos the pride of Assam? These days there is a conspiracy to kill it. I am making the allegation very seriously. People sitting in the government ... to save Bangladeshis ... they are doing this conspiracy to kill rhinos so that the area becomes empty and Bangladeshis can be settled there."

Either despite or because of his statements on Bangledishi immigrants, as well as his promises to improve the economy, to end corruption, and to adopt a tougher, more nationalistic foreign policy with Pakistan and China, opinion polls indicate that Modi is the frontrunner for the position of prime minister. India Times and NDTV (India) and NDTV (22-Feb)

John Kerry says that Israel could become 'an apartheid state'

In off the record comments that were secretly recorded, US Secretary of State John Kerry said the following, with respect to the recently collapsed Mideast peace plan that he had set up:

"A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state. Once you put that frame in your mind, that reality, which is the bottom line, you understand how imperative it is to get to the two-state solution, which both leaders, even yesterday, said they remain deeply committed to."

As I've said before, it's hard to figure out what's going on with Kerry. He burst onto the scene in 1971 when he declared to the Senate that U.S. Army soldiers were rapists and torturers and no better than Nazi stormtroopers, and he's been belittling the army and the United States ever since. As Secretary of State, he says and does one stupid thing after another, and stumbles from one foreign policy debacle to the next. Is there some deep, brilliant, core plan that he's pursuing, or is he really as dumb as he seems? Daily Beast

Dozens killed in Iraq bombing two days before election

At least 36 people have been killed and 60 injured in a suicide bombing in eastern Iraq, two days before the country heads to the polls in the first nationwide elections since the 2011 withdrawal of US forces. The perpetrators are assumed to be the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria/Sham/theLevant (ISIS or ISIL), the same group that has broken away from al-Qaeda and is recruiting jihadists in Syria from countries around the world. The Baghdad government has been an ally of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad. The number of suicide bombings has been increasing steadily since the withdrawal of American forces in December 2011, and has particularly surged this year as the April 30 election approaches. Al-Jazeera

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