India-Israel Co-operation and Challenges

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In my humble opinion, I believe that India should remain as far away from Israel as possible. Israel is a nation that has no respect for international law whatsoever and continues to violate US resolution 242 and the fourth geneva convention by practicing illegal population transfers of Palestinians and illegally moving their own civillians into the occupied territories. Contrary to Israeli/US propoganda, these measures are not taken out of security concerns. Think about it, if Israel is keeping the ocupied territories as a bufferer zone to defend itself from Arab states as it claims, then why does it build residential settlements in a buffer zone? Why would it deliberately want to thrust its own citizens in harms way? Settlements are weapons and every aspect of a settlement is used by Israelis to make life so hard for the Palestinians that they have no choice but to leave. "Let the Palestinains live like dogs" said Moshe Dayan (Source: Proff Noam Chomsky, lecture in South Africa).

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->road 447, which shortens the trip to the Settlement of Ariel by a full five minutes, "necessitated" uprooting one thousand olive trees and confiscating 75 dunams from residents of the two Palestinian villages which Ariel targets. In addition, every road that connects two Jewish settlements doubles as a road that separates two Palestinian towns. Palestinians cannot use "Jewish" roads.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

(source: Settlements, a user guide,

By Gabriel Ash)
www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1354

Let's not forget that our nation too was occupied by the English not so long ago. Our forefathers were oppressed the same way the Palestinians are currently being oppressed.

India has nothing in common with Israel.