After it emerged that an Indian named Soumya Santosh, a native of Kerala who was in Israel as a caregiver to an elderly woman in the southern Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon was killed by rockets launched by the Sunni Islamist terror group Hamas, both the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and United Democratic Front (UDF) simply could not condemn the Palestinians for this terror attack.
Soumya Santosh, hailing from Idukki, Kerala was 31 years old nurse and was killed when Hamas fired rockets towards the civilian population.
However, According to the reports, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was forced to change his Facebook post after facing criticism from Islamists in Kerala. The CM actually had to edit his Facebook post to delete any references he made to link Soumya’s death Hamas.
If the Kerala Islamists were not happy, the Communists and the Congress were not far behind to appease Muslims in the state.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) said it was the Israeli who attacked Palestine and said, “the air raids carried out by Israel on the Gaza strip led to the death of many Palestinian citizens”.
“Israel is moving towards the complete occupation of East Jerusalem by attacking Palestinians who were protesting its attempt to forcefully expel residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood to make way for Jewish settlements. Netanyahu, who had repeatedly failed to win a majority in the Israel elections, launched these attacks for petty political gains,” the statement issued by the CPI(M) said.
Meanwhile, the leader of the Janapaksham party and former Poonjar MLA P C George came down heavily on Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and called him “irattachankan”, (man with two hearts) for not condoling the death of the Malayali nurse who was killed in Israel.
In a strong-worded FB post on Wednesday, George wrote “You are a conniver. This is a big example for indulging in appeasement eyeing few votes. Who are you fearing of? Palestine or Hamas? Or the Hamas in Kerala? Maybe for the junior comrades you may be double-hearted. But both those hearts are in the control of others.”
George was relentless in his attack and did not spare the communist leaders of the state. He said, “Those people who howl based on the direction from the AKG centre are also fast asleep. Kerala is making progress on the strength of the money sent by our children who earn from working abroad. Please show gratitude for that at least.”
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