Posted on 12/24/2014 7:58:41 PM PST by cold start
Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Narenda Modi in New York City on September 28, 2014. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO)
With the EU moving farther away from its traditional support of Israel, it seems as if the Jewish state is finding a new ally in an uncommon place.
According to The Hindu newspaper, India is considering moving away from supporting the Palestinian cause at the UN, Indian government sources said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is looking to move his foreign policies regarding the Palestinians to a state of abstention, the two sources claimed.
“Like other foreign policy issues, the Modi government is looking at India’s voting record at the United Nations on the Palestinian issue,” one of the sources explained. The second said that only an “administrative nod” would be needed to confirm the new policy.
The report comes on the heels of what many observers are describing as a new age in Israeli-Indian relations. Since coming to power in May, Modi has met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu several times leading to a significant warming in relations.
Last week, in honor of the Hanukkah holiday, Modi published a holiday greeting in Hebrew, surprising Jews, Israelis and Hebrew speakers around the world.
Taking to Twitter, Modi “wished his Jewish friends a happy Hanukkah! Many this Festival of Lights and the festive season ring in peace, hope and well-being for all.”
In September, Netanyahu and Modi met for the first time, marking a historical moment in which any Israeli and Indian premiers met in over a decade.
“We are very excited by the prospects of greater and greater ties with India,” Netanyahu told reporters. “We think the sky’s the limit.”
Along with a warming of diplomatic relations, Israel and India are also engaging in new trade, defense, security, technological and cultural relationships. “Israel and India are at the cusp of a new era of increased cooperation in a wide variety of fields,” Netanyahu said while on a trip to Singh on November 6.
Last month, the two countries conducted a joint missile test on an advanced system, which was hailed by an adviser to the Indian defense minister as “an important milestone in the cooperation between India and Israel.”
In October, India agreed to buy 8,000 Israeli-made Spike missiles and more than 300 launchers in a $525 million defense deal. The missiles were widely used by the IDF during Operation Protective Edge.
Military business between Israel and India is estimated at $9-10 billion.
Modi is bringing his nation out of the dirt while Obama is burying America in a shallow grave while Al Sharpton and the black panthers spit on the corpse!
They share the same bad neighbors.
Ghandi was never friendly even though India and Israel were both fighting to free themselves from the same colonial power.
But, India and Israel have come to realize the obvious today, that they are forced to face and defend themselves against the same IslamoNazi enemy.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend......or something like that.
Also, India is interested in Isareli technological assistance (Isarel is very very very cutting-edge and advanced, Indian engineers learn very quickly however and wish Israeli advances they can learn and adapt to India’s needs. A natural matchup!)
and Israel and India are also trying to maintain open societies with representational (parliamentary) systems of governance. A lot of common and shared interests bewteen India and Israel today....
President Cruz will set this aright.
Modi is Hindu. He gets it.
Ghandi was never friendly even though India and Israel were both fighting to free themselves from the same colonial power.
But, India and Israel have come to realize the obvious today, that they are forced to face and defend themselves against the same IslamoNazi enemy.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend......or something like that.
Also, India is interested in Isareli technological assistance (Isarel is very very very cutting-edge and advanced, Indian engineers learn very quickly however and wish Israeli advances they can learn and adapt to India’s needs. A natural matchup!)
and Israel and India are also trying to maintain open societies with representational (parliamentary) systems of governance. A lot of common and shared interests bewteen India and Israel today....
Good to see this since the Anti-Semite in the White House has cut Israel off at the knees.
India is about to find itself blessed.
Yeah.
EVERYTHING obama does either:
a) Weakens America/AmericansThere are no counter examples.
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Serves Islam
e) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
2 long years left of this.....
Odungo is investing money and energy on the wrong groups. So what else is new?
Ask a lefty...he/she will find a counter, no matter what.
Usually it just ends the conversation.
Israel finds it helpful to curry favor with those who favor curry.
(sorry, couldn’t resist)
Merry Christmas!
-——the EU moving farther away from its traditional support of Israel,——
????????? the EU doesn’t really support Israel does it? The EU is at best neutral and really pro Palestinian.
Excellent! Thanks for that.
Actually, it’s from an oratorio by P.D.Q. Bach, “The Seasonings”, Schickele No. 1/2 Tsp.
Anyway, Israel needs a large ally with advanced military hi-tech. They sure aren’t finding one here under this regime.
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