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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->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. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

We are already seperated by some 2500 + Kms.. So don't worry. What about everyday killings of Israelis by the terrorists ? What has the UN done to STOP it ? UN has shown no regard for the security of Israelis. Arabs don't want ISRAEL in the region. Where should they GO ? The issue is more complex.

It is none of India's business to get mixed with the issue. We are neither a party nor the mediators to the conflict. Both parties are our friends, and we wish both could live happily as good neighbours. We are not going to go supporting one against another. In the past we did the mistake of supporting only one party with out even caring for our own security concerns, no more. Israelis can't be kept away just bcoz of the Arabs. We deal with Israel only to address our own concerns. We are not working against Arabs by addressing our own security concerns. So Palestini issue or Arabs should not object to our relationship with Israel. If they do then they have problems, becoz they are not being very sensitive to India's security concerns. I don't want them to influence -vely on Indian security concerns, not essential and not required.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->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).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

As I said earlier, India is neither a party nor a mediator to the conflict. We should remain neutral, non aligned <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> The issue is in UN, things happen at its own pace. Lets's address our own problems first (Pakistan, BD), before we care about the ME issue. Lets care for Ethnic cleansing in Kashmir and in our own neighbourhood which has greater security concerns for India. Until then we can only do business with both Israel and Arabs.

<!--QuoteBegin-Gouki+Jul 22 2004, 10:45 AM-->QUOTE(Gouki @ Jul 22 2004, 10:45 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> Oh great post. You fail to address any of my points but jump right into the "Blame it on Muslims" rhetoric. Palestine was occupied by the Ottomans while India was occupied by the Moghuls. ALthough both of thrm happen to share the same religion, they were completly different races and cultures. Islam is not a monolythic religion, please remember that. When the continent of Africa was colonised by European powers 200 hundred years ago, nobody said that Africa was under "Christian occupation." This is  because Europe is an ethnically diverse continent, and although every Euro nation is Christian, they are distinctly different from one another. The same goes for the different Islamic empires througout history. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't even care what happened in the past. Right now India has its own concerns to address. We have our own ailments affecting our life. Lets cure our ailments first before looking into other's. We do what is in the best interests of India, not Israel or Arabs or Palesteinis for that matter. Right now We need Israel and we should work with them. We have no enemity with the Arabs or Israelis, so India working with Israel should not be of concern to the Arabs or Palestinis. We do work with Israel only to address our own concerns, and not a bit of it is about working against the Arabs or Palestinis.

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January 1994, page 41

Special Report


Hindu Extremists Seek Ties With Israel and Its U.S. Lobby

By Faisal Kutty
The Hindutva movement appears to be gaining momentum throughout India, and spilling over its borders. Like a contagious disease, this form of religious fanaticism is spreading even among expatriate Hindus, who increasingly are putting their financial power at the service of Hindutva forces.

This includes a segment–a minority so far–of America's estimated 800,000 Hindus. Organizations such as the Overseas Friends of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the U.S. chapter of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHP–World Hindu Council), and the Friends of India Society International (FISI) are lobbying in and around Capitol Hill in support of ideas considered both fanatical and fascistic by many supporters of secular government in India.

Shekhar Tiwari, in charge of congressional relations activity for the FISI, told the Washington Report that his and allied groups are latecomers on the lobbying scene. Nevertheless, the BJP-RSS-VHP public relations skills were evident during the visit of former BJP President Murli Manohar Joshi.

According to India Abroad, during Joshi's August visit American supporters arranged a meeting with State Department, Pentagon and Indian Embassy officials, as well as analysts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Studies, and the Institute of National Strategic Studies. The meeting, which was closed to the media at the request of Joshi's supporters, was intended to dispel the "myth" that the BJP was a right-wing Hindu fascist party.

The radicals are attempting to overcome their late entry into the influence game in Washington by developing ties with its most experienced and powerful advocates of foreign aid and a foreign country, the Israel lobby. This follows a number of incidents over the past few years linking Israel or its American supporters to developments in India which have given impetus to the conclusion by Hindu extremists that Israel is the key to the Washington door.

One such development was the report of alleged Israeli intelligence agents being spotted in war-torn Kashmir. Israel denied the charges and said the Israelis temporarily detained in Kashmir by Indian authorities were tourists or adventurers.

In the summer of 1992, while I was in Kerala on India's southwestern coast, there were reports from credible sources that Israelis were seen in the state meeting with BJP and RSS officials. This was immediately before the worst communal riots in the state since the Moplah rebellion of 1921 (a Muslim-led farm workers rebellion against upper caste Hindu, Christian and Muslim landowners).

Prior to the 1992 clashes, Kerala had been a model of communal harmony, even though it is one of the most religiously diverse Indian states with a population that is 60 percent Hindu, 20 percent Muslim and 20 percent Christian. Kerala's former thriving Jewish community has emigrated en masse, largely to Israel, and now numbers only 22 persons.

Early last year, the Federation of Assemblies of Muslim Youth of Sri Lanka wrote a letter to Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao linking the rise in anti-Muslim sentiments in India with the resumption of relations with Israel. The letter stated that in Sri Lanka "the first major communal clash between the [island nation's] Muslims and Tamils occurred within a year" of the opening of an Israeli interests section in the U.S. Embassy in Colombo. The section was subsequently ordered closed by the late President Ranasinghe Premadasa. The Federation urged Rao to take the same action in regard to Israeli representation in India.

All this may be the result of nothing more than conjecture. But reports indicate that BJP-RSS-VHP supporters in the U.S. would like to see a Zionist-Hindu alliance and are striving hard to develop it. The extremist leaders seem to have intensified their new courtship right after India established full diplomatic relations with Israel in January 1992.

The Hindu-chauvinist BJP, RSS, VHP and the Shiv Sena (Army of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction) are the main groups which orchestrated the destruction of the Babri Masjid (Ayodhya Mosque) and the subsequent massacres of Muslims in Bombay and elsewhere in India. The same groups also welcomed and celebrated Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' visit to India on May 17, 1993, and the closer ties with Israel which ensued. The Peres group was the highest-ranking Israeli delegation ever to visit India.

Among leading Indian media reporting attempts by BJP-RSS-VHP leaders to get closer both to Israel and to the Zionist lobby in Washington is The Times of India. A Washington, DC report in its Aug. 1, 1993 edition noted that although the extent of such efforts cannot be documented, "what nevertheless remains a fact is the persistent lobbying by Sangh Parivar supporters here."

Such efforts by the Hindu fascists are ironic. The leading mind and former chair of the Hindu extremist RSS, the late Guru M.S. Golwalkar, in his now-famous work Our Nationhood, wrote of his admiration for Adolf Hitler and suggested that the "race purification" carried out by Hitler was a perfect example to be followed by Hindu nationalists in dealing with India's claimed 150 million Muslims as well as its Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and other minorities, all of whom should be denied even basic citizens' rights.


Access to U.S. Policymakers
The BJP-RSS-VHP supporters in the U.S., whom many believe are providing a significant percentage of the financing required by the fascists in India, now have undertaken another task on behalf of those extremists. This is to obtain access to U.S. policymakers in order to ensure that they do not undermine the campaign of Hindu chauvinists to come to power in New Delhi.

The latest attempt to gain legitimacy was through the Global Vision 2000 conference held last Aug. 6 to 8 in Washington, DC. The aim was to gain acceptance of the World Hindu Council (VHP) in North America, even though it is banned in India.

The Washington effort was unsuccessful in appealing to the broader Hindu and non-Hindu Indian community in the U.S. (which numbers more than one million), according to Thomas Abraham, founder and former president of the New York based National Federation of Indian Associations. "They used the name of Swami Vivekan and, who has broad appeal, but the conference catered to the membership of the BJP-RSS-VHP," he told the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

Prominent leaders from India who took part included VHP President Ashok Singhal, RSS leader K.C. Sudarshan, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati, a fiery female leader. Singhal was quoted in the Aug. 31, 1993 issue of India Today as predicting that "America will realize with this program that Hindutva has asserted itself and now there is no force that can stop it.''

The BJP-RSS-VHP leaders in the U.S. make no secret of their admiration for the influential position enjoyed by Israel's supporters in the United States and their desires to make use of it. "The Jewish lobby has a great understanding of the political process in the U.S.," according to Tiwari, of the Denver-based FISI, which supports the radical groups in India. "They have been very favorable to India's interests."

FISI evolved from the Indians for Democracy Movement (IDM), formed in response to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's emergency rule in 1975. Tiwari told the Washington Report that "our efforts at lobbying are new and weak so we seek guidance from the Jewish lobby and they have helped us whenever they can."

In its Aug. 1 article, The Times of India reported that Hindutva leaders also have met both with Clinton administration officials and with Zionist leaders to bring about a favorable attitude toward the rising Hindutva tide in India. ''It is a known practice that whenever senior BJP leaders visit the U.S.," The Times of India reported, "meetings are scheduled with Jewish groups . . . experts from prestigious think tanks such as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and, if possible, State Department officials."

The Hindutva supporters probably also were encouraged by Shimon Peres' statement during his May visit that Israel supports India on the Kashmir issue and that it would support any moves by the U.S. to declare Pakistan a terrorist state. In return, Peres said, he expects India to vote differently in the international arena on issues affecting Israel. This latter statement was in reference to the fact that India has been a consistent supporter of many Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) positions in various international arenas.

Israel and its supporters obviously view the extremists' attempts to befriend them positively, since this is a shift from the position generally held by Indians since the days of Mohandas K. Gandhi. Gandhi said that "Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English.”


"Gandhi on Zionism”
He stated unequivocally that it was "wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct." Gandhi bluntly described the idea of handing over Palestine to the Jews as a "crime against humanity." The champion of nonviolence also stated that "according to the accepted canons of right and wrong, nothing can be said against the Arab resistance in the face of overwhelming odds."

Much of this seems forgotten by Hindu extremists in their rush to capitalize on Israeli influence in Washington by promising Israel economic and military as well as political benefits if they come to power in New Delhi. The Indian media is full of statements by BJP officials questioning why India is sacrificing a "beneficial relationship with Israel for fear of a few Arab despots."

Some analysts note that such Hindu extremists believe that they can make such statements with impunity because no matter how close India gets to Israel, there will be no reaction from most Arab and Muslim states. The Indian government realizes, however, that India benefits far more from its present broad ties with the Muslim world than it can ever benefit from supporting Israel.

There are hundreds of thousands of Indians working in the Middle East and providing India with billions of dollars in direct remittances. Their acceptance as trusted employees at all levels in Middle East states also eases the dismal employment situation at home.

According to the Institute of Development Studies in Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala, the direct benefit to Kerala alone from its more than 150,000 workers in the Gulf amounts to 25 percent of its GDP. The Muslim world also has provided an open market for Indian exports–from agricultural produce to manufactured goods.

Commenting on the increased media attention focused on their lobbying initiatives, Tiwari says that "Our efforts are only attracting attention because of the growing perception that the BJP will come to power in the next election."

Such attention, however, appears to be well deserved. Many India-watchers believe that if the BJP came to power at the national level, the pluralistic society of India as it exists today would soon be relegated to the realm of vanished "golden ages" in the subcontinent's long and colorful past.
Faisal Kutty is a free-lance writer presently living in Ottawa.

Pakistani nuclear program could not be stopped by bombing kahuta

1. They got their missiles from China
2. They got their nukes from china
3. Even if kahuta had been bombed, they still could have got chinese nukes
4. The first pakistani nuclear test was done in Tibet under chinese supervision in 1983

5. The only real way of stopping the pakistani nuclear program was to nuke all of pakistan

Double standards of Faisal Kutty
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India's claimed 150 million Muslims as well as its Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and other minorities, all of whom should be denied even basic citizens' rights.

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Golwalker aimed his remarks at muslims alone
and all muslim countries deny basic citizens rights to non-muslims

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This was immediately before the worst communal riots in the state since the Moplah rebellion of 1921 (a Muslim-led farm workers rebellion against upper caste Hindu, Christian and Muslim landowners).
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The moplahs never attacked muslim landlords

The oil boom is over
Per capita income in Saudi arabia has fallen from $28000 to $7000 and thanks to exploding polygamous breeding will fall to $2000

There are many independent sources of Oil such as Russia

Next as far as gulf workers go
only 25% are hindus

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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.

Every muslim country has done this
Israel has not used islamic methods on muslims such as large scale genocide, abduction of women, and forced conversion

Arrow operational test soon

<b>Arrow operational test soon </b>

Israel Aircraft Industries has signed a development agreement with MBDA, through which it hopes to sell the Arrow as a European product.

Felix Frisch 27 Jul 04 14:58

The Arrow anti-ballistic missile system will shortly hold the first test of its kind, in which it will be fired at a real Scud missile over the Pacific Ocean. The Scud will be launched from a US test site in California, while the Arrow will be launched from an island. The launch's direction, payload and range will exactly mimic actual Scud and Arrow missiles.

An Israel Air Force Arrow missile system was sent a few ago to the US by ship for installation at the test site. The Scud launcher was also set up, and the test will be conducted soon.

<b>Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), the Arrow's chief contractor, wants to market it to friendly countries. It has been offered to Turkey and India, but the only component sold so far is the Green Pine radar system, sold to India and based on its border with Pakistan. </b> <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Last week, IAI signed an agreement to jointly develop an anti-missile missile system with Europe missile manufacturer MBDA. IAI wants to exploit the agreement to penetrate the European market and sell the Arrow as a European product.

New hand - Worsening Israeli relations with Pakistan is a boon for India.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->13 September 2004: One of the best-kept secrets of the Indian government is the scale and extent of defence and intelligence cooperation with Israel. It is huge and staggering. Tens of Israeli companies collaborate with the Indian military establishment, but there is not a breath of it. The Israelis have helped in miniaturising our atomic weapons, they were the only outsiders present at the Pokhran-II explosions, and during Kargil, they flew sorties to teach the IAF how to bomb Pakistani intruders in their ridge redoubts.

On Saturday, we published intelligence that Israel has gotten into a flaming row with Pakistan because its airforce has taken an astonishing seven-hundred photographs of Pakistan’s nuclear establishment (Intelligence, “Israel caught snapping Pak N-centres,” 11 September 2004), as a prelude perhaps to bombing them out like the Iraqi reactor Osirak in 1981. It is recorded history that Israel subsequently asked India landing permission to take out Pakistan’s still-nascent Kahuta facility, but Indira Gandhi refused. The reasons are disputed, but it is likely Mrs Gandhi thought a bombing wouldn’t deter Pakistan’s nuclear march, since the Chinese imprint on it was strong. It is hard to say whether she was right or wrong in her reasoning, but Pakistan did go nuclear less than five years later.

Over the years, though, Pakistan has not overcome fears that India would attack its nuclear facilities, despite a bilateral pact not to. In the immediate aftermath of the Pokhran-II explosions, Nawaz Sharief sent up a scare through Pakistan of an imminent Indian attack. At the start of the October-2001 Afghan War, Pakistan feared India would use the window of opportunity to attack it. The sneak photography row with Israel also started on a different foot, with Pakistan first suspecting the IAF of making those reconnaissance missions.

What the current, the recent and distant past tells is that there is one imponderable in India-Pakistan relations, which is Israel. Israel provokes fears vastly disproportionate to its size. Its daredevil airforce is dreaded, and nothing is said to be beyond Mossad. The one fear Pakistan has is of Israeli saboteurs blowing up its nuclear laboratories and inventoried weapons. When Ariel Sharon visited on the NDA’s invitation, the worst fears of Pakistan were provoked of still closer India-Israeli ties, and the tremors were felt in China.

Being a tactical guru, General Pervez Musharraf has been keen to start a relationship with Israel, as that would put his ties with the US on firmer footing. For Israel, it is a veritable coup if Islamic Pakistan becomes a friend, because that would deplete the Arabs in untold ways. But obviously, the jihadi groups and politicians won’t allow it, the jihadi sections of the army won’t accept it, and the population would reject this on grounds of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and the need to maintain Muslim brotherhood.

On the other hand, the advantage for Musharraf is that better relations with Israel would certainly limit the flow of high-tech weapons to India, since Israel would not wish to imperil a hard-got relation with an Islamic country so swiftly. But Musharraf’s progress in that direction has been aborted because of domestic opposition, and Israel is more implacably opposed to Pakistan these past few months, because of Pakistan and A.Q.Khan’s proliferation to Iran. Israel is not certain how much of nuclear transfers to Iran have occurred, because Pakistani and Iranian nuclear scientists have been interacting frequently, but it fears that in case Pakistan is targeted for proliferation, it may be tempted to pass on technology to Iran in spite or for safe-keeping, and the controversial reconnaissance photographs could be to gauge the situation. No country photographs another’s nuclear facilities at great risk for nothing.

What should India do?

Right now, there is no call to act, but it cannot remain insensitive to the situation. The politically correct in government would doubtless argue to condemn Israel’s action, and come on the side of Pakistan, in some perverse display of South-Asian brotherhood, but that would be shooting yourself in the foot. Nehru hoped that by campaigning for China’s membership to the UN, Chairman Mao would remain ever grateful to India, and instead he perfidiously provoked and prosecuted the 1962 war. Like China leverages Pakistan against India, so India must play the Israel card, since it simultaneously hurts Pakistan and China. As for India’s Muslim electorate, they would go along with policies that strengthen India, and if they have fought the Pakistani army in four wars, there is no reason to doubt their nationalism in any other matter, including still closer India-Israeli ties.

Thankfully, that course is being strengthened now. Soon after the UPA government was sworn in, there was some gratuitous Israel-bashing, partly from the misguided notion that relations with it were propelled by the NDA, although it was the P.V.Narasimha Rao government that had re-established formal ties with the Jewish state. The Left was also pressing for a pro-Arab tilt, but the government was knocked back to its senses when Indian expatriates were killed with some selectivity by Al-Qaeda terrorists in Al-Khobar in Saudi Arabia. The second shock was the Indian hostage-taking in Iraq, a traditionally pro-India country, and huge ransoms had to be paid to free the hostages.

Besides these incidents, the driver of pro-Israel relations is the defence establishment, which finds no alternative to Israeli high-tech weapons, and defence cooperation between the two countries has become so far-reaching that it is impossible to reverse it, without knocking the bottom out of India’s security. So, it is happy to note that, finally, the UPA government is formally firming relations with Israel, when Indian officials leave for that country in December to sign a separate anti-terror protocol.

The protocol will allow sale of special anti-terror weapon systems, notch up intelligence-sharing of terrorist movements in the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and formalise at least three meetings a year between Israeli and Indian intelligence and security agencies. The architect of this new pro-Israel policy is defence minister Pranab Mukherjee, but an early convert to it has been the foreign minister, Natwar Singh, who recognises the extreme limitations of a pro-Arab paradigm.

For example, Arab and Iranian diplomats in New Delhi say that they will have to support Pakistan in any India-Pakistan dispute. Israel, on the other hand, while not coming openly on the side of India, will back it with weapons and such special assistance as may be necessary, as it was doing the Kargil War. Now, with Pakistan proliferating to Iran, Israel may even be compelled to openly side with India. The tide is turning.

The only grey area in all this is if the Indian establishment recognises the paradigm shift, and wishes to take such advantage of it as it can, before not taking advantage becomes a disadvantage. This calls for greater cooperation between the foreign and defence ministries, the defence and foreign minister Pranab and Natwar, and for greater accent and stress on defence diplomacy than has been so far laid by the UPA. Naturally, the national security advisor, J.N.Dixit, plays a key role, but the political direction has to come from Pranab and Natwar, with the enthusiastic consent of prime minister Manmohan Singh. Like in life, countries are given limited chances, and they must make the most of it. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<b>ISRAEL CAUGHT SNAPPING LOTASTAANI NUCLEAR CENTRES</b> <!--emo&tupid--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pakee.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pakee.gif' /><!--endemo-->

11 September 2004: <b>Pakistan has threatened to make an international incident of seven-hundred clandestine aerial pictures that Israeli warplanes have taken of Pakistani nuclear facilities in the past two months unless it apologises.

Earlier, Pakistan reckoned the Indian Air Force was violating its airspace, but subsequently, in fourteen sorties detected by Pakistani air defence, the Israelis were exposed, whereas in at least thirty more sorties, they beat Pakistani radars.

While diplomats could not explain how the Pakistani military junta expected not to face domestic flak by exposing Israeli violations, they insisted that if Israel did not apologise, Pakistan could take the matter to the OIC.</b>

Since news surfaced some months ago of Pakistani proliferation to Iran, Israel-Pakistan relations have plunged, with the growing threat of an Israeli strike against Pakistani nuclear facilities, and the reconnaissance pictures could have been part of the Israeli exercise.

Cheers <!--emo&:beer--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cheers.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Now how were these pictures taken inside the paki aerospace ?

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Now how were these pictures taken inside the paki aerospace ?
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Very simple, from just about 60,000ft. Copying Indian Airforce old habit <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Service Ceiling for Mig 25 is 70,000 feet. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<b>Mudy Ji :</b>

If the IAF or the Israelis have been able to carry out “Photographic” Missions over Lotastaan then hypothetically it stands to reason that the Lotastaanis could also carry out such Missions over India.

Does the IAF have the wherewithal to deny the Lotastaani Air Force to carry out such Missions over India?

Cheers <!--emo&:beer--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cheers.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<b>Three blasts kill 40 at Egyptian tourist resorts </b>

Hamas is back in action outside Israel. Actual reason behind Bush-2 Iraq war to give buffer zone to Israel is now in dustbin.

<b>India willing to mediate in West Asia: Envoy</b>
Why India want to get involved? Why they want to destroy relationship with Israel? Vote bank policy will destroy India.

Israel may upgrade Indian Army guns, communications

4 August 2005: By the year-end, Israel could sign an agreement to upgrade Indian 130mm and 105mm artillery and 81mm mortars and cooperate in high-tech communication, and significantly, it wants to set up manufacturing units here with transfer of technology in select areas

Israel wants to customise the artillery with night fighting capability and weapon locating sensors and make the mortars automatically towed, while offering multi-frequency UHF systems for better communication between various military commands.

Because of a heightened threat perception and increased terrorist infiltration from Pakistan, a bulk of army units are permanently engaged, and while the load on the communication networks is enormous, being of the Seventies and Eighties, they are easily penetrable.

Both during the Kargil War and in Operation Parakram, Pakistan had near-precise intelligence of our troop movements on the border from intercepted communications, and India approached Israel for modernising and securing them in view of the confused merger and acquisitions situation with European defence firms.

Defence sources said that Israel has procured the necessary permissions for license manufacturing communication equipment from the US and Netherlands and would tropicalise them to suit India’s dusty and desert conditions.

Israel seeks India's help in peace process: report

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
08/03/2005

New Delhi (dpa) - Israel has sought India's help to persuade the Palestinian authority to take action against militants wanting to disrupt the Middle East peace process, a news report said Wednesday.

Amos Gilad, a retired major general and a key aide of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, briefed Indian officials in New Delhi last week on the planned withdrawal of Israeli settlers from the Gaza strip.

"Palestinian Authority has been making loud proclamations about helping to stop violence in the region. But it lacks the will to act against militants. India can use its goodwill with Palestinian authorities to help in the peace process," a senior Israeli diplomat told India's IANS news agency.

New Delhi reportedly agreed to help but also took the opportunity to repeat its commitment to the Palestinian cause, the agency said.

Newspaper reports said Gilad met Deputy National Security Advisor Vijay Nambiar as well as Rajiv Sikri, Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs when he visited India on July 26-27.

Gilad, who heads the political and international department in the Israeli Defence Ministry, also discussed bilateral defence relations with Indian leaders.

The bilateral defence relationship has deepened in recent years, with Israel steadily becoming India's second biggest defence supplier. Both countries also have a joint working group on countering terrorism.

India, which has close relations with Palestinian leaders and is committed to the aspirations of the Palestinian people for a homeland of their own, has also developed close ties with Israel after the resumption of diplomatic ties with that country since 1992.

http://www.cjp.org/content_display.html?...eID=159445

Israeli security company wins Indian tender

Press Trust of India

Jerusalem, August 5, 2005

Mul-T-Lock, global leader in making security products, has won a major tender to secure gas stations in southern India, a media report said.

The company has won contracts worth 3 million New Israeli Shekel ($0.67 million) for securing 2,700 gas stations in south India and Indonesia, business daily 'Globes' reported.

Mul-T-Lock's President and CEO Shimon Shekel said that this was the first stage of a project for securing 10,000 gas stations across Asia.

The company, owned by Sweden's Assa Abloy and with facilities in Israel, has developed special products for securing gas stations, installing locking mechanisms for pumps, tanks, storerooms, and safes over the last two years.

It recently signed a $1 million contract for a number of projects in China, including securing the Supreme Court building in Beijing.

Israel helps Maharashtra flood victims

By Indo Asian News Service

New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) Israel has despatched aid, including drugs and medical equipment, to help the flood-hit Indian state of Maharashtra bounce back to life.
'The aid is in answer to the appeal by the Maharashtra government following the floods that struck the region and claimed more than 1,000 lives and left thousands more homeless,' Michal Gur-Aryeh, spokesperson of the Israeli embassy, said here Tuesday.

Israel's foreign affairs ministry, health ministry and Israeli pharmaceutical companies like Teva Pharmaceuticals and Rafa Laboratories have sent antibiotics and first aid equipment to Maharashtra.

The aid consignment reached Mumbai Monday evening.

'The contributions coordinated by the foreign ministry will be of great assistance to flood victims in western India and will contribute also to the already warm relations between our two countries,' said Amos Nadai, a senior official in foreign ministry in Tel Aviv.

Relations between India and Israel have been friendly and growing with the two countries collaborating on joint ventures, particularly in defence.

Israel has also sought India's help to persuade the Palestinian Authority to take action against militants to push forward the Middle East peace process.

http://www.sulekha.com/news/nhc.aspx?cid=431660