Indo-Israeli Collaboration: A Different Perspective
Posted on 13. Jul, 2010 by Dr Raja M Khan in Opinion
By Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan
The state of Israel came into being on May 14, 1948. Mr Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Indian Prime Minister supported the creation of this Zionist state at the heart of Arab world. However, owing to its relationship with Arab world, India took some time in the formal recognition of Israel, and later recognized it in 1950. Besides, maintaining good relations with Arab world, India also maintained covert relationship with Israeli state. The former Israeli Defense and Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan, is regarded as the linchpin of the Indo-Israeli relationship. Since he has also been the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, therefore, he propped up the politico-military dimension of the bilateral relation between India and Israel.
Ever since 1950, both countries have been interacting covertly, while keeping their strapping bilateral relationship at low profile. It was only in 1992, that India established its formal diplomatic relationship with Israel. Thereafter, both countries are enjoying an excellent relationship at economic, military and strategic level. Both countries are considered to be the strongest and most trusted allies mainly based on common values and security interests. Apart from other fields, Indo-Israel military collaboration has rapidly expanded over the years. By 2009, bilateral Military trade between two countries has touched US$9 billion. Currently India is the largest customer of Israeli military hardware and second largest economic partner. Both are undertaking joint military exercises/ training and cooperating in space technology. With over 150 defence firms, including three major state’s owned firms (Israeli Arms Industry (IAI), Israel Military Industries (IMI) and the Rafael Arms Development Authority) Israeli defence economy generate 3.5 billion USD as annual revenue.
Indeed, Indian arms procurement from Israel has enabled it to become one of the world’s five top most arms exporters. Some of the major Indian arms purchases from Israel include: Phalcon Advanced Airborne Early Warning Systems; Heron Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Green Pine early-warning and fire-control radars; Barak Naval anti-missile defence system; Upgradation of 130 mm M-46 field guns by Israeli firm Soltam; Super-Dvora Mk II fast attack craft and Star Night Technologies Night Vision Goggles. Besides, both countries have US$2.5 billion joint collaboration in Spider quick-reaction surface to air missile (55 km range). In 2006, Indian Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) concluded a five years contract of US$480 million for the development of missiles. This deal was later enhanced to 2.5 billion USD and included in its scope the missile development cooperation, which includes both air, and land based missile system. The deal also includes; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and satellites.
While reciprocating, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has helped Israeli IAI in launching its five TechSAR radar satellite system. It is all weather, high-resolution radar satellite, which Israel is using for spying against Iran. It is worth mentioning that India and Iran are the strategic allies. Now India is also strengthening its strategic relationship with Arab world and Central Asian states. This indeed is a unique combination of establishing relationship with the enemy of Arabs and vice versa. India has already purchased four Phalcon early warning radar planes from Israel. It has been revealed that lobbying for this deal was done by; a coalition of US-India Political Action Committee (USINPAC), America-Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) and American Jewish Committee (AJC). India also has acquired two Green Pine early warning and fire-control radars, which has the capability to detect and track the hostile missiles at a distance of over 500 Km. It is also finalizing the deal for the procurement of Arrow-II anti-ballistic missile defence system, jointly developed by Israel and United States.
In the recent past, there have been extensive visits of Indian services chiefs to Israel and vice versa. Israel is playing a significant role in the up gradation of Indian Air Force (IAF). The US$6.5 billion deal, for the procurement of 126 multi-role combat aircraft for IAF, will have an “Israeli imprint”. It has been learnt that, “whichever fighter — F-16, F/A-18, Rafale, Typhoon or MIG-35 — is selected, the aircraft will be fitted with Israeli avionics”. Israel is also upgrading 300 T-72 MI tanks and BMP2 infantry combat vehicles for Indian Army. There have been a number of joint meetings of Indo-Israeli Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism. Both countries are sharing intelligence through the close collaboration of MOSSAD and RAW.
In the recent years, there emerged another angle of this collaboration. This angle includes; the Indo-Israel joint collaboration with Afghanistan. In the garb of re-construction, India has already made lot of inroads and investment in Afghanistan. In order to lure in the Afghan masses and Afghan National Army (ANA), India has started lot of developmental projects in Afghanistan. Over 90 vacancies were allotted to the officers of ANA for training in India during 2009-10. Presently 27 officers and 37 cadets are undergoing training in India. In April 09, India offered to train 129 senior officers of ANA. India has promised to provide 450 military vehicles of all types to Afghanistan during the ANA Chief of General Staff’s visit to India in July 2009.
In collaboration with India, an Afghan Military delegation comprising of Afghan Defence Minister and high ranking Military officers paid a visit to Tel Aviv in July 2009. In connection with modernization of Afghan Army and to counter the Taliban threat, the visiting Defence Minister asked Israeli defence establishment to render maximum assistance. The host military establishment promised the Afghan delegation for the provision of a number of modern weaponry. The promised equipment include; 'SUFA' jeeps (armoured version) to Afghan military for US$1 billion. Besides, US Army in Afghanistan is purchasing armoured vehicles made by two other Israeli firms named "Arotech" and "Kibbutz Sasa". Israeli IT/Telecommunication firm named "Radwin" will collaborate with British Military operating in Afghanistan to deliver wireless broad-based technologies to facilitate British troop's communication in Afghanistan. Radwin has been selected for this job in Afghanistan due to its high-capacity 2000 technology to address the overload problems in the existing system. The firm reportedly will also monitor the signals communications of Pakistan Army operating near Pak-Afghan border.
Otherwise, there is a reported presence of Israelis-MOSSAD operatives particularly in the northern and northwestern provinces of Afghanistan, bordering Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Most of these elements are having dual nationalities and passports of countries other than Israel, using US and UK passports to conceal identity. Owing to its excellent performance, Australia has acquired Israeli Aerial vehicles (UAVs) named Heron for use in Afghanistan. Meanwhile Germany has also struck a deal with Israel to acquire 4x UAVs by the end of May 2010 for exclusive use by German Forces in Afghanistan. Canada and Spain are already using Israeli UAVs in Afghanistan.
Indeed, the Indo-Israel collaboration with Afghanistan is aimed to; enhance ingress in Afghan society specially the youth and political leadership to shape their mindset against Pakistan. Furthermore, it is designed to make ingress in ANA for stimulating them to act against Pakistan for creating a threat on our western borders. It also aims at further reinforcing the RAW network to destabilize Pakistan through covert intelligence operations. RAW and MOSSAD along with Northern Alliance and Afghan intelligence set up are helping anti Pakistan terrorists and extremists to destabilize Pakistan and project her as a state unable to protect her strategic assets.
The massive Indian investment in Afghanistan is aimed at a long term gains to encircle Pakistan. It is pertinent to note that Indian defense collaboration with ANA has not been able to guarantee the security of Afghanistan, but it has destabilized Pakistan to the utmost. In the same way, Israeli collaboration with Afghanistan is aimed to selling defense products and intelligence gathering with the help of occupation forces and India with multiple objectives.
Through Indo-Israel nexuses, both countries are finding new markets for their defence products. Along with their major allies, both are for a hunt to secure strategically and economically significant areas. The geo-political location of Afghanistan provides such a leverage. It would give Israel, sufficient space to manipulate against Iran, whom Israel considers as its stanch enemy. The location would also give them a capability to block any future integration of the Muslims by implanting the seeds of hate, as done in the case of Afghanistan and Pakistan. India has already run through this by creating mistrust in the bilateral relationship of Pakistan and Iran.
Now it is up to the people of Afghanistan to recognize their friends and foes. After all 30 million Afghans have the right to question their government that why India and Israel have all of a sudden becomes so sympathetic to them. There exists neither any religious affinity nor any other parallel between them and Afghanistan. Rather, both countries have a poor record of accomplishment of Muslim’s massacre in Kashmir and Palestine alike.
Dr Raja Muhammad Khan is a PhD in International Relations from Karachi University. Presently he is Associate Professor at National Defence University, Islamabad. He is a regular contributor to www.Opinion-Maker.org
His area of focus is South Asia and Middle East.
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Hussain Shaikh
13. Jul, 2010
Both the Mushrikeen of Mecca and the Jews of Khyber will be vanquished soon, InshaAllah.
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neel123
14. Jul, 2010
Reading this article, one would have an impression that the India-Israel relations has only one dimension, that is weapons technology related.
This only reflects how illiterate and one dimensional the author of this article is ………. !
India-Israel relations cover a wide range of areas of Agriculture, science and Tech, space research, health care, to name a few.
The Jews are the best brains in the world of technological innovations, economics, finance and business.
It is only natural that India and Israel would collaborate with each other for mutual benefit, regardless of the Pakistanis like it or not ………… !
As far as the author’s appeal to Afghanistan to recognize who the real friend is, the Afghans have known you Punjabis of Pakistan for a long time……. they do not need any advice from Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan.
Mansoor Malik
14. Jul, 2010
Ofcourse , the Indo-Israel nexus is multi-dimensional on a long term basis but on a short term the defence and space collaboration has helped both the countries reposition themselves in the Middle-East and West/ Central Asia.This may be at the cost of the Arab World, Iran, Pakistan and Central Asian countries. These countries have to themselves take on the cudgels instead of depending on Divine help only. In fact, lately it appears that it is Turkey alone which is standing up and being counted and the rest are all what our ex-Premier once said: Zero plus zero equal to zero.
S.Kanji
14. Jul, 2010
To Neel 123,what percentage of relationship between
israel and india is of productive value that would UPLIFT
the living standards of average indian and when percetage is destructive i.e related to ARMS TRADE?
My answer hardly 1-2% PROFUCTIVE as show piece
As per your answer DIVINE HELP issue go and how destruction families and society taking place is the west
i.e. the western development model is based on destructive GNP is there because it is robbing the poor countries
and by sharing it’s know how
see you own history of genocides you have committed on native population of what is now called usa,canada,new zealand australia!
so please see yourself in mirror before you are able criticise other societies!
Mihail
14. Jul, 2010
Jews are the Synagogue of satan(Revelation 2:9,3:9)and CONVERTED KHAZARS,they adopted judaism in 740 Black see kingdom.
The Jewish Encyclopedia:
?Khazars, a non-Semitic, Asiatic, Mongolian tribal nation who emigrated into Eastern Europe about the first century, who were converted as an entire nation to Judaism in the seventh century by the expanding Russian nation which absorbed the entire Khazar population, and who account for the presence in Eastern Europe of the great numbers of Yiddish-speaking Jews in Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Galatia, Besserabia and Rumania.
The Encyclopedia Judaica (1972):
?Khazars, a national group of general Turkic type, independent and sovereign in Eastern Europe between the seventh and tenth centuries C.E. During part of this time the leading Khazars professed Judaism? In spite of the negligible information of an archaeological nature, the presence of Jewish groups and the impact of Jewish ideas in Eastern Europe are considerable during the Middle Ages. Groups have been mentioned as migrating to Central Europe from the East often have been referred to as Khazars, thus making it impossible to overlook the possibility that they originated from within the former Khazar Empire.
The Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 10, (1971) relates the following about the Khazars (Chazars):
?Khazars, a national group of general Turkic type, independent and sovereign in Eastern Europe between the seventh and tenth centuries A.D. During part of this time the leading Khazars professed Judaism.?
(Encyclopedia Judicia, Vol. 10, (1971)
European white people are the true Israelitis,those people form THE NEW JERUSALEM(AMERICA)IN ONE DAY(1776).
Let me prove to you that the European are the lost tribe.
Genesis 17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee,and will multiply thee EXCEEDINGLY.
GE 17:4 AS FOR ME,BEHOLD,MY COVENANT IS WITH THEE,AND THOU SHALT BE A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS.(MANY NATIONS=EUROPEAN).
GE 17:5 NEITHER SHALL THY NAME ANY MORE BE CALLED ABRAM,BUT THY NAME SHALL BE ABRAHAM,FOR A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS HAVE I MADE THEE.
GE 17:6;GE 28:14 And THY SEED SHALL BE AS THE DUST OF THE EARTH,AND THOU SHALL SPREAD ABROAD??
GENESIS 13:14,15,16,17,18.
GENESIS 15:5,6
GENESIS 22:15,16,17,18.
GENESIS 26:3,4,5
GENESIS 28:14,15
GENESIS 35:10,11,12,13.
Read for yourself,don?t believe lies,God is light and in him is no darkness at all.
New Jerusalem(America).
Zechariah 2:1 I lifted up mine eyes again,and looked,and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Zec 2:2 Then said I,Whither goest thou?And he said unto me,TO MEASURE JERUSALEM,to see what is the BREADTH THEREOF,AND WHAT IS THE LENGTH THEREOF.
Zec 2:3 And,behold,the angel that talked with me went forth,and another angel went out to meet him.
Zec 2:4 AND SAID UNTO HIM,RUN,SPEAK TO THIS YOUNG MAN,SAYING,,,JERUSALEM SHALL BE INHABITED AS TOWNS WITHOUT WALLS FOR THE MULTITUDE OF MEN AND CATTLE THEREIN.
THIS IS AMERICA,AMERICA,AMERICA.America is going to be destroy,not the satanist,khazars sand box from Palestine.
Revelation 12:6 And the woman fled into the Wilderness,where she hath a place prepared of God,that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Revelation 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle,that she might fly into the wilderness,into her place,where she is nourished for a time,and times,and half a time,from the face of the serpent.
THIS IS AMERICA,THE SERPENT IS THE JEWISH DEVIL,THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN,CONVERTED KHAZARS.
All those country are going to attack America,Revelation 18 is the end of America,she will burn in one day(24 hours)surprised attack by Russia with nuclear weapons.IS GOING TO BE REVOLUTION SOON IN AMERICA,THE JEWISH GOV WILL BE BUSY WITH THE REVOLUTION,THEN THEY ATTACK.When the jewish devil see that She is destroy and they are alone,they get scared and make Peace.After that you will have a NEW WORLD ORDER,OR A JEW WORLD ORDER WITH THE ANTICHRIST SITING IN THE TEMPLE,THE JEWS WILL BUILD THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON ON THE RUIN OF THE DOM OF THE ROCK.THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDON WILL BE FOUGHT WITH THE ARMY OF THE WORLD AGAINST JESUS CHRIST.ANTICHRIST WILL GET THE POWER OVER THE ENTIRE WORLD,THE STATUE OF DANIEL,,NEBUCADNOSOR VISION,TEN TOES=TEN UNION.HE WILL MAKE PEACE AND ALL THE ARMY WILL BE UNDER HIS COMMAND.HE WILL TRY TO STOP JESUS,THE FINAL BATTLE IS GOING TO BE FOUGHT AT ARMAGEDON.
THE END OF AMERICA ;;
JEREMIAH 50:3 FROM THE NORD(RUSSIA),JER 50:4,913,14,15,16,20,23,24,26,27.
JER 51:6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50.
ISAIAH 47 BABYLON(AMERICA)47:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15.
ISAIAH 12:14,15,16,17,18,19.
ISAIAH 14:4,5,6.
GOD IS GOING TO PUNISH HIS PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY CARE NOT ABOUT HIM.
THERE IS NO RAPTURE,THE JEWS WERE BEHIND SCOFIELD.
DON?T BELIEVE LIES,MOST CHRISTIAN IN AMERICA BELIEVE IN RAPTURE AND THAT THE JEWS ARE GOD CHOSEN PEOPLE.
Books writen by jewish authors;
The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler
The Jews of Khazaria by Kevin Alan Brook
The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167?1900 by Adam Shear
Facts Are Facts, by Benjamin Freedman
The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand
ROOTS: From Abraham to America. This video details the history of the lost tribes of Israel and their migration to America.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-496263...
Adrian Mole
14. Jul, 2010
The biggest problem that Muslims face is that the international aggression against them is facilitated by corrupt leadership. Be it in the Arab states or the Stan countries.
There is a grave problem hat stems from under achievement in education, science and enlightenment.
Turkey however is starting to buck the trend by outing agents within the Turkish government, army and media (Ergenekon) in order that Turkey can re- establish it’s position in the Muslim world.
Turkey is the only nation that has successfully governed the Islamic world and her leaders know that. We may see a changing in the balance of world influence that Israel has and we may see regime change in Islamic countries very soon.
abdul
14. Jul, 2010
Perhaps THIS might have been a condition for the creation of Pakistan(partition of India on RELIGIOUS grounds)!!!
W.F. Wolff
14. Jul, 2010
“…The Jews are the best brains in the world of technological innovations, economics, finance and business.
It is only natural that India and Israel would collaborate with each other for mutual benefit, regardless of the Pakistanis like it or not ?”
Riiiight!
That’s why everything touched by Jews turns to shit. For example:
Russia 1917-1989
Germany 1918-1933
Israel 1949 – today
USA 1912- today
Jews have had their kick-at-the-can in the above countries and turned them into hell holes.
India_Lover
14. Jul, 2010
Dear Raja Mujtaba (the author), Which Muslim massacre in Kashmir you are referring to? Haven’t you noticed that the Hindus of Kashmir have been systematically decimated? Do you know that the Kashmiri Hindu women reach menopause at the age of 30? There are 450000 Kashmiri Hindus displaced from their own homeland and living in temporary tents for past 20+ years. Instead of putting some naive questions like the one you ended your article with, why don’t you analyse Pakistan’s role in current afghan situation? And yes, try to interpret it in the context of Pak-Baloch relationship. Enough said.
@India Lover; I am not the author of this article, just posted it. Please read the name of the author.
Will
14. Jul, 2010
If you cant trust Jews, who can you trust?
Dr.A.K.Tewari
14. Jul, 2010
You can not trust Jews .You can not trust Hindus .You can not trust Christians. And Buddhists can not trust on you due to Baniyan episode .Then Dr R.M.Khan you will left all alone .Who will read you ? Turky will not allow such radicals to exist . Its a Khan vs Khan jang.,,.. Try to understand the ground reality and don’t ignore it .
Abraham
15. Jul, 2010
India_lover,
The Kashmir issue is very complex and the result of historical injustices.
Normally, most of the Indians give less weight to facts than perceptions.
Whenever the discussion of Kashmir comes, the subject of Pundits is always brought in. Why did the the ’450000′ Pundits living in Kashmir with the Muslims for centuries suddenly get into problems and were forced out?
One fact most Indians do not mention is that the Pundits constituted only 1%-3% of the population depending on the region within Kashmir. But they held more than 90% of the Government jobs until a lot of them were pushed out due to a plan of Governor Jagmohan who was not a Muslim.
Even in the rest of India, until the 60s, the Brahmins (Pundits are Brahmins) who are only 3% of the population cornered the majority of white collar jobs using their monopoly over education earned by virtue of the caste sytem created by themselves. This situation was repaired to an extent by the reservation system.
Dr.A.K.Tewari
15. Jul, 2010
The Kashmir issue has been created by Pakistan for gaining the sympathy of other nations and to defame India world over .Now the issue is being treated as bilateral by the world community that means Pak has failed miserably and no one can devide lndia once again .
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15. Jul, 2010
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George
07. Oct, 2010
Dr.Khan is a4th ratefiction writer. Its hard to belive that he has actually earned a Ph.D. Looks like he bought one. His writing is very typical politic al rhetoric that is dished out by Pakistani politicians during elections. The politicians have a compulsion – anti Idian rhetoric is their biggest vote catcher. Cant guess what this guys wants to do?
Really
28. Apr, 2011
Let's look at the factual errors. Nehru never supported the creation of Israel. Infact, India voted against the creation of Israel.
The Indo-Israel relationship only started after the Soviet collapse. India was not pally with Israel during the 70s/80s – during the Soviet action in Afghanistan because Israel was providing mujahideen with weapons (oh yes – that's right)
IAI is NOT Israeli Arms Industry – but rather – Israeli Aerospace Industry
The Indian investment in Afghanistan is NOT military. It is in roads, hospitals, schools, dams, bridges and an alternate highway. Pakistani investment in Afghanistan is actually called Taliban.
I wonder how much the writer paid to buy his PhD from the streetside…. but it appears that apart from listening to voices inside his head, he makes up "truth" to suit whatever the voices tell him.
Factually – the only thing correct about this article is the arms purchases. The rest of the politicl situation made up this "Dr" Khan is a figment of his diseased imagination.
American
08. Jun, 2011
india & israel is best country
i love borther india
israel
Danny
30. Nov, 2011
Ha ha, this would make sense if the biggest killer of muslims was not muslims themselves! can we please have a sunny mulsim come on here and state that a shia is a true muslims… come on i dare yah!