India, Dec. 26 -- There has been a deluge of books on Gaza since Hamas launched its ill-thought-out attack on Israel, bringing in its wake massive violence and destruction from the Israeli defence forces, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians. If I had to choose one book, it would be Pankaj Mishra's The World After Gaza, where the author pulls no punches about western complicity in creating a State like Israel and its often-catastrophic results for the Palestinians and, in the wider context, the Arabs. Israel, once admired by a generation of Indians, for its indomitable spirit in a hostile environment, its military prowess and its ability to handle the West, has now firmly slipped off the pedestal it was put on. Mishra, o...