Wednesday 11 October 2017

WHY ISRAEL CAN BE INDIA'S BFF

WHY ISRAEL CAN BE INDIA'S BEST FRIEND FOREVER




On 4 July this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Israel. For the first time in the 70 year history of India, our PM visited Israel. India first recognised Israel in 1950, and diplomatic relations were established in 1992. Relations with Israel was considered as a taboo in Indian political and diplomatic sphere. Since It meant negligence of Palestine which, in turn, meant enraging crude oil-rich Arab countries outside India and enraging minority communities in India. However we have shed off our hesitation in acknowledging deepening ties with Jerusalem with time, for good. Israel is a country with whom we should have strong ties already till now. Here are some reasons why Israel is the best country for India to have friendship with.

  • Look at their excitementHave a look at the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official twitter handle when Our Prime Minister visited Israel.
He referred to Narendra Modi as his friend.


He even tweeted in Hindi


The enthusiasm with which Modi was welcomed was astonishing, since it was our first meeting for bilateral talks. Even Israeli people were enthusiastic.









  • Similar security challenges
    Ever since Israel has been created it has been forced to be involved in Arab-Israeli conflict and has been involved in war 8 times. India too has similar situation, it has went on war 5 times. Both the nations have hostile neighbours and both are facing terrorist attacks,infiltration and proxy wars. this means that both have to tackle in more similar ways. In fact the rise of Islamic extremist terrorism in both nations has already generated strong strategic alliance between the two.
  • Hostile NeighboursThis is the map of Israel


    Israel is surrounded by its enemies which are ever ready to remove Israel from the map.
    And this is the map of India

    India too is surrounded by an Islamic fundamentalist nation Pakistan ready to nuke India any time and and imperialist China
  • Both are the only safe heavens for a religionIsrael is the only place in the world where Jews are majority, are not tortured and are powerful. India is the only place in the world (other that Nepal) where Hindus are majority, are not tortured and are powerful. This creates and unknown bond.
  • India's attitude towards JewsJews are the most discriminated community in the world. In no country were they accepted. India and the United States are the only countries in the world where Jews are not tortured, and are tolerated. Actually, not only tolerated, but welcomed.
    even in the USA there is a little discrimination, but in India, Jews are always treated
    Jews arriving at Cochin, India after the destruction of second temple.
  • So much to gain/Ample trade opportunitiesIndia and Israel are working  together on IT, biotechnology, laser, electro-optics, facilitation of  R&D. Space, agriculture technology.Besides, trade b/n the two countries is also huge. Indian is the third largest Asian trade partner of Israel, and tenth largest partner overall. In the defence, Israel is the second largest source of defence equipment for India after Russia.
  • Intelligence SharingWhen R&AW was setup in 1968 by R. N. Kao, he was advised by the then PM Indira Gandhi to cultivate links with Israeli spy agency Mossad. Since then many links are been established between R&AW and Mossad to tackle Pakistan, China, North Korea and Arab Nations.
    Indian Admiral Robin Dhowan greets Vice Admiral Ram Rutberg, Commander-in-Chief of the Israeli Navy at South Block, New Delhi; 24 August 2015
  • There helps to us even when we ignored them: We had been condemning Israel on international platform on Palestine issue and voting against them in the UN. We even opposed its consideration in UN . Still Israel has supported us very much. It supported us in all wars, in all forms, whether it is logistic diplomatic or any other manner. In the Kargil War, when the whole world was against us, Israel stood by our side, not only Israel supported us, but also provided us logistics, of which we were falling short.
    An Israeli Heron surveillance drone. Despite pressure from the US and the international community, Israel sped up shipment of arm orders submitted by India before the Kargil conflict.
    • So much to gain, so much similarities, so much support from their side,so much gains we both are having with mutual trade, still no great friendship between us. However, now, this step by Indian Prime Minister to start a new friendship is welcomed by heart, and we expect a great future of Indo-Israeli relationship.
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    Friday 6 October 2017

    Top 5 Mistakes By The Administration That still hurt us today

    TOP 5 MISTAKES BY THE ADMINISTRATION THAT STILL HURT TODAY



    The government of India, responsible for all the decisions, has made blunders many a times. These were due to short sightedness, political greed, or anxiety(maybe). Here are top 5 mistakes committed by the leaders of our nation, which still have effects on us.

    RIGGING OF 1987 KASHMIR ELECTION

    In 1965, when Pakistan launched operation Gibralter against India, to infiltrate in Kashmir and raise a rebellion, it failed terribly, thanks to the support of local people towards India. But now, there is rebellion against India in Kashmir. One of the major reasons for this is the rigging of 1987 Kashmir elections, which came to be a turning point in Kashmir's history.
    In 1983, Farukh Abdullah won a huge majority in Assembly elections. After that, he fell out with Indian National Congress and then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi dismissed him the very next year. But when later, Farukh Abdullah agreed to an alliance with the INC, his supporters turned against him. So the elections of 1987 were rigged in favour of Abdullah.
    The Kashmiri youth had participated in 1987 elections with great enthusiasm and seriousness and after due thought. But the poll results fired them with anger. They decided to fight violence with violence.
    The rest is history.










      ASKING FOR UN INTERVENTION OVER KASHMIR ISSUE

      Just after independence, Pakistan sent pashtun tribal militias to capture Jammu and Kashmir. The Maharaja of Kashmir signed instrument of accession to India, thus accepting to make Jammu and Kashmir as a part of India. Then Indian troops attacked the militias, safeguarding Kashmiri territories and recapturing parts of Kashmir occupied by tribals. After some time Pakistani troops joined in and now the pace of Indian troops was reduced, but still it was advancing. But on January 1948, the then Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru called up the UN in. It meant that UN(read NATO) would now intervene in the matter. The NATO countries wanted a base in South Asia against Soviet Union, so the decision was in favour of Pakistan (since Pakistan was a US ally and India was non aligned) and the border (called Line of Control) was made where there were frontiers. As a consequence, now, our soldiers have to guard the borders at LOC, which is the toughest terrain, full of mountains, Government has to spend a huge amount of budget every year in J &K, and there is unrest in Kashmir.


      CRIPPLING THE R&AW


      Research and Analysis wing was setup in 1968 after the failures in intelligence by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as a foreign intelligence agency. Under its first director T.N. Kao, R&AW quickly came to prominence in the global intelligence community, playing a role in major events such as the independence of Bangladesh and the accession of the state of Sikkim to India.
      After the emergency, Moraji Desai became the Prime Minister of India. He mistakenly believed that Indira Gandhi used R&AW to silence the opposition during emergency years. Hence, he was filled with hatred towards R&AW and took steps that reduced it capabilities to a great extent.


       Firstly, he reduced the budget of R&AW drastically. Secondly, he revealed the detail's of R&AW network in Pakistan and India's knowledge about its secret nuclear facility in Kahuta to his Paksitani Counterpart General Zia-Ul-Haq. After that, Gen. Zia's government obliterated all of R&AW's network in Pakistan. This destroyed R&AW network in Pakistan and reduced the penetration of Indian intelligence in Pakistan dramatically. Also, Pakistan became a nuclear power, and is now a constant threat to us.

      The Kahuta Plant, where Pakistan was secretly running its atomic bomb project


      THE SHAH BANO CASE


      Shah Bano, a 62 year old Muslim mother of five from Indore, Madhya pradesh was divorced by her husband in 1978. She filled a criminal suit in the Supreme Court of India, in which she won the right to get financial support from her husband. This was a golden opportunity for the government to ban instant triple talaq and moving a step towards the uniform civil code. 

      But the Rajiv Gandhi government, in the election year, gave into the pressure of Muslim orthodoxy and Muslim politicians. The parliament reversed the judgement end brought The Muslim Women (protection of rights on divorce) Act. This step deprived Muslim women from their basic rights, they had a constant fear of getting divorced by their husbands. Muslim women had no independence. They had to struggle a lot until on 22 August 2017, instant triple talaq was declared unconstitutional.
      NOT TRYING TO SETTLE BORDER ISSUE WITH CHINA

      In 1949, India recognized People's Republic of China. In 1950, China invaded and captured Tibet, making itself an immediate neighbor of India from Jammu & Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh. It was feared by some officials that China will attack India too, but Nehru denied their views, stating that any war will result in a World War. Despite being suggested by the officials, Nehru did never discuss the border issues with China. He believed that unless China initiates it, there was no need of discussion. In 1950, Nehru declared from Indian side that McMahon line is the border between India and China.


        China was silent on this matter, and Nehru did the blunder by assuming this silence as acceptance. In 1954, India signed the Panchsheel Pact, it was a great opportunity for India to settle the border issue. But nothing was done. In this pact, India accepted Tibet as Chinese territory and surrendered its rights in Tibet. Tibet could have been (but was not) used as a pawn. Assuming border issues to be settled, Nehru was busy in Non-Aligned Movement and trying to act as a bridge between western bloc and Soviet Union. There were no talks regarding border, even when Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai visited New Delhi.
        We had no idea about Chinese intentions until  a Chinese newspaper People's Daily reported the construction of road from China to TIbet via Aksai Chin, which was Indian territory. Then China officially declared the McMahon line as illegal. Still, Nehru did not give enough tries to solve this issue, instead, in 1950s, he advocated PRC's membership in the UNSC. all these resulted in a war against China (which China cunningly started during Cuban crisis) and a humiliating defeat. Even now, there are several disputes at the border, all attempts to solve border issue failed and a lot of energy and budget is spent there.
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