India-Israel Co-operation and Challenges

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<b>NE Israelites in warfare against Lebanon </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Aizawl Jul 30: People of Northeast India may find it a bit difficult to blame Israel for its current aggression over Lebanon seeing as nine persons from the NE region are reported to be in warfare against Lebanon fighting for the Israeli army.

According to the Evening Post, the persons identified as fighting for Israel in the Israel Defence Force are Tamir Beitet, Liel Lunkhel and Avi Ahngshing, Mizo immigrants from Manipur, Samuel Manashe,Eitan Ralte, Yitzchak Hmar,Binyamin Zadeng and Yosef Manashe from Mizoram and Gershon Chawnglai from Assam.

The paper reported that Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told the Shavei Israel, an organization dedicated to searching for lost tribes of Israel that these people fighting for Israel would be given the status of ‘oleh’ meaning having moved to Israel which in effect would be the granting of Israel citizenship as an ancestral right
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