India and Israel are two entities sharing a lot of similarities in brutality, criminality, and hypocrisy. Both are being ruled by extremist leaders who are driven by extremist ideologues with a natural superiority complex and an uncompromising attitude. Their perpetual rule for over a decade has tainted the neutrality of their nations, which have somehow elected them to power despite their culpability in political, moral, and financial corruption.
Resultantly, they have resorted to creating chaos in their respective region and trying to consolidate illegal occupation of disputed areas. The stark similarities between India and Israel over the years have been so vivid that they cannot be overemphasized further. Yet, their mention is mandatory to apprise the world of casus belli for natural nexus; evident in the form of Israeli assistance to India against Kashmiris and Indian assistance to Israel in Qatar and Iran.
Two Sides of the Same Coin
Both India and Israel have been brutally fighting against innocent civilians, regardless of international law and humanitarian considerations. Their brutalities against Kashmiris and Palestinians are no secret. Emboldened, when both opened a front against their adversary states, they faced enough sheer resistance for a retreat.
When India attacked Pakistan on May 7, 2025, following a false narrative of Pakistan’s culpability in a terrorist incident at Pahalgam, it tried to gain impunity in attacking anyone, anytime, and anywhere in Pakistan. Additionally, it was an endeavor to seek the liberty of labelling Pakistan for the crimes it had not committed. Pakistan responded with full force, which denied India fulfillment of its intentions.
Similarly, Israel waged a war against Iran based on tangibly wrong evidence. Iran responded unexpectedly. India blamed Pakistan for supporting terrorism inside the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) without any evidence. Likewise, Israel blamed Iran for developing a nuclear bomb without any proof. Both India and Israel fell victim to wrong intelligence about their adversaries and mounted a military campaign. India faced the brunt at the hands of Pakistan and sought US refuge in securing a ceasefire. Israel, similarly, faced Iran’s wrath and urged the US to become a direct party to the conflict, as it alone couldn’t move towards the stated objectives.
The Delusions Fall Apart
India and Israel have been pushed by their allies into this illusion of being regional powers. They were misled by the unabated support and belief of their partners that it was in their very capability to subdue the will of their adversary through the provision of political, economic, military, and technological support. However, both India and Israel have not been able to live up to the expectations.
India, epitomized as the net security provider and a potential challenger to China, had its nightmare against Pakistan during the conflict between the two in May 2025. Pakistan outmaneuvered India in politics, diplomacy, military, society, and media. Likewise, Israel, in a quest to become a regional hegemon, experienced unprecedented damage from Iran, which pressured it to beg the US for intervention.
India has been for years telling lies against Pakistan and blaming it for involvement in terrorism, but was found involved in state-sponsored domestic genocide, overseas terrorism, and espionage activities in regional countries. Israel has been harping on a similar tone against Iran for decades, yet remained involved in terrorism, genocide, and espionage activities in various countries in the region.
When their real faces were exposed, both seemed to have lost much of the diplomatic support from around the world. For instance, India could not muster support from around the world for its narrative against Pakistan post Pahalgam, while Israeli atrocities and aggression have also been condemned by the majority of nations on the globe.
There is a tendency in India and Israel to resort to falsehood and lies. Their narrative is based on shallow arguments that have been busted by both Pakistan and Iran several times. In the recent episodes, Pakistan asked India to provide proof of its involvement in the Pahalgam incident and proposed a third-party impartial inquiry, which India denied.
Likewise, Iran vehemently announced it had no plans to build nuclear weapons and cooperated with the IAEA for regular inspections of its nuclear sites. The transparency that was adhered to by Pakistan and Iran was acknowledged by the international community and constricted political as well as diplomatic space for their adversaries.
Both India and Israel have banked on the US to forge their nefarious agenda of perpetrating terror. Alone, they feel incapable of performing well. During the conflict in May 2025, India, after suffering an accelerated rate of destruction, raced to the US to effect a ceasefire and rescue her.
Just two days after Israel attacked Iran when it was pounded back, it rushed to the US to enter the war. The competence that both India and Israel possess, therefore, is least bona fide, amply revealed by Pakistan and Iran, respectively. This has put the US in a quandary as it is unable to find any other alternative to them for the stipulated roles accorded to India and Israel. Also, after so much investment in these countries, the US is bent on helping them out of the mess they create for themselves, which tarnishes the image of the US, and its higher moral pedestal is at risk.
Following the same model of unrealistic brinkmanship, India and Israel have developed so many similarities that they are leading them into a downward spiral. It seems just a matter of time before they drop first, but their downfall seems inevitable. There is a need to understand that their extremist ideologue is not a matter of pride for anybody else than those who perpetrate it. The hawks, as they are usually called, thrive on chaos, but the world in general supports peace. It is now up to India and Israel to understand the reality and decide whether they are for doves of peace or hawks of chaos.
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Rear Admiral (retd) Faisal Shah is an honorary research fellow at the Institute of Maritime Affairs, Islamabad, and can be reached via [email protected].