Hyderabad, May 4 -- While the 1968 students' upsurge in the United States was against the Vietnam War in which thousands of US soldiers and millions of Vietnamese perished, the 2024 movement on the campuses in protest against the one-sided massacre of mostly helpless women and children in Gaza are different.

Biden landed in Israel on October 18 after the October 7 Hamas attack which officially killed 1,200 Israelis, one-third of them soldiers, but not single American military personnel.

Never in history, a US President had rushed to the spot so quickly when not a single of his country's troops was killed or wounded. It took more than two years for the US to join World War I and World War II. The US was dragged to World War II only after...