Indo-Israel collaboration & Mumbai attacks

Col Ghulam Sarwar (R)




India and Israel have been hobnobbing with each other for the past many decades but the world at large has been unmindful of their hush hush activities. Likewise, hidden ties with both USA and Israel have not seen light of the day and only recently details of these ties have been unravel lest. It will be recalled that on November 25, 2008, Mumbai terrorists did their job meticulously well by provoking every possible ally in the world.




By killing foreigners in addition to many Indians, they enlisted the support of all western terrorist nations against Islam and Muslims. As a result, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kashmir and Muslims in India have been put on high alert as USA, UK and Israel are determined to strike a stunning blow on their entity. Pakistan, as expected is feeling rather perplexed on the presumption that Muslims might have been involved in the Mumbai carnage. These are however; far fetched apprehensions as in view of their religious beliefs, Muslims would not perform this dastardly act with such precision. As things stand, the Mumbai attacks may have chosen to target whatever comes in their way, be it the railway shorts or luxurious hotels, like "The Taj or Obroi Trident, or any community centre (Nariman House.




However reports released recently have revealed that the assault on Nariman House was carried out deliberately with ulterior motives. Presumably, the terrorists had wanted to involve Israel also to join Indo-US strategic killings of Muslims. According to a retired Indian Admiral, Das, the aims of the attack on the Jewish Centre was to tell India that it's growing links with Israel were not acceptable to the terrorist groups. Nariman House attack was to tell the Indians clearly that India's growing linkage with Israel was not what India should be doing. Seen in this background, India wanted to use terrorism ploy to get military concessions from other anti-Islamic nations.




India, for quite some time, had been making desperate efforts to develop relationships with both USA and Israel and it has been quite successful in its efforts. Interestingly, due to its clever machinations, it has also successfully maintained economic relations with the Muslim World - mainly the Gulf States. Apart from acquiring military wares from USA, Europe and Russia in recent times, India has become one of the largest customers of Israeli military techniques and arms which are considered more advanced and lethal in the world. India acquires weapons of about 1.5 billion dollars every year from Israel. Only Russia sells more arms to India than Israel. India believes that terrorism ploy could help advance its military interests in USA and Israel and its calculations seem to be absolutely precise and faultless. It may not be amiss to mention here that India seeks advance military equipment and technology at concessional rates by using Russia's bargaining chips, but now Mumbai's November 26, 2008 incident has given an extra advantage to New Delhi to obtain more privileges from Tel Aviv. Israel let loose hell in Palestine by using cluster bombs, killing thousands of innocent Palestinians including women and children. India, however, has not said a single word of sympathy for the hapless Palestinians. Instead, it is planning to sign more agreements in days to come with the Jewish state.




To conclude, India and Israel thinks alike for damaging the interests of Muslim countries. However, it is a matter of deep egret that Muslims are not aware of the dangers that are currently facing them. How sad it is to see that when Palestine was under terror attacks from fascist Israel, the Muslim world was watching these ghastly scenes on their TV screens and displaying no discomfitures?