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  Israel Hamas – The Failure To again go back to the beginning and my blog on the issue – The invincible Mossad failed to anticipate this, as also the entire western intel community (including that Famous Five Eyes – reminds me of the Enid Blyton books) is today a proven fact. That the Hamas built more than 500 kms of tunnels fortified in various ways, all of which required massive logistic support including funding, and takes significant time to build, and the Mossad and the western intel did not ask questions is deeply troubling. To blame one man just because one hates him is stupidity of the highest order. Not one person globally flagged this issue means that nobody cared, or everybody winked at it as if kids were building castles in the sand. Forget the Intel agencies, what were the NGO’s who obviously routed some part of the funding doing? Let’s stop kidding ourselves and face the truth – the Hamas and the team behind this were so brilliant that they fooled hundreds of fol...

  The latest media reports had a rather interesting headline. It spoke about the supreme court raising many a logical question about political funding and demanding that the list of donors be readily available for the court to review. Many have also raised questions about the so-called opacity of the electoral bonds and have pointed a finger at the current government on this. Let’s step back and have a look at this issue of political funding from a larger perspective. Is this something that started in 2014 as many educated folks would like us to believe or has it been in vogue ever since politics and elections started globally? For those who have followed politics especially in the Indian context, and involved as businessmen, professionals walking the corridors of power over the last 75 years, the truth is well known. Cash was king. Bribery was rampant. Every corporate and businessman gave money to every political party in cash. This was a hugely lucrative business where one ...