Over a short period, India & Israel ties have progressed rapidly:

There is a major defence partnership between India & Israel in process and it is India’s second-biggest arms supplier.

Trade between India and Israel is expected to reach eight billion dollars. Israel is also a source of technology collaborations for several Indian companies especially in sectors such as horticulture, bio-tech and medical equipment.

Both India and Israel have been victims of savage by Islamic militants. As recent as last month, in Mumbai attack, Islamic terrorists from Pakistan targeted and specifically killed Jews.

Every sovereign nation has the right to defend the security of its citizens. Fed up with daily rocket attacks from Hamas terrorists, Israel launched a war on Gaza.

As expected, the Indian government expressed strong condemnation of hostilities in Gaza and reiterated support to the Palestinian cause. The present Indian government is unable to take a balanced stand on war. The UPA government headed by the Congress party is shy of associating itself with Israel as it will loose the Muslim vote bank. Going a step further minister of state for external affairs E Ahamed’s of IUML has demanded snapping of ties with Israel. The drama in all Muslim dominated areas has also started where anti-Israel slogans & demonstrations by politicians is a way of show offs.

There cannot be durable peace without a strict implementation of cease fire by all neighbours. There are too many parallels between Indo-Pak and Israel-Hamas affairs to be ignored. On both sides countries have been hijacked by Islamic terrorists and governments are unable to take action against those non state actors.

Certain states may be ungrateful, but Israel is fighting our fight too. Since India and Israel are both fighting a war against Islamic terrorism, we need to have close cooperation with Israel and reciprocate the help they offered during Kargil war.