**Israel is warning that Islamist militants are preparing attacks in India similar to those in Mumbai last year, media and officials have said.**Israel’s counterterrorism unit said the group that launched the Mumbai attacks was planning to target Western or Israeli tourists, AFP news agency said.
Israeli television also reported that a travel advisory would warn Israelis against travelling to India.
India has blamed Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba for the Mumbai attacks.
“The terrorist group that carried out the serious Mumbai attack in India is planning to carry out a number of attacks across India, particularly against concentrations of Western or Israeli tourists,” AFP quoted the counterterrorism unit as saying.
The attacks last November left more than 170 people dead, including nine gunmen.
Targets included a Jewish centre run by the New York-based orthodox Lubavitch organisation.
The Israeli statement said the planned attacks could target other Lubavitch centres in India.
The warning was based on “a concrete, very serious threat”, it said.
If this enemy is religious extremism then it is Pakistan's enemy too. And India would be able to better solve this problem by working with Pakistan instead of relying on Nazionists.
Also, if religious terrorism is people's enemy then Israel itself is a terrorist state on its own. Indian politicians have always denounced their terrorist activities against Palestinian civilians.
No - the common enemy is terrorism. The 26/11 attacks were not “religious” terrorism against India, but against the Jewish center in Mumbai they were acts of “religious terrorism”.
So the kind of terrorism can be different, but the common enemy is terrorism.
And “working with Pakistan” to solve this problem has not really worked out so far, has it ?
If you read the article completely, Israeli intelligence has warned India of the possibility of other 26/11 type attacks in India targeting Westerners & Israeli. Intelligence sharing is the first step in this cooperation. Sale of weapons & counter terrorism training are some other ones.
You said "working with Pakistan" did not help solve problem of 26/11, and I asked you how Israeli terrorists can help you in that.
So what's the answer?
India can not solve 26/11 problem with Israeli help. Working with Pakistan has more chance of solving it then working with Israelis.
Israeli intelligence? You really believe in those yahoos? Don't you know how their stupid intelligence talked about WMD's of Iraq?
Israeli intelligence miscalculated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, an Israeli think-tank has suggested.
This contributed to the “false” picture painted by US and British services, said the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.
The country’s secret services could lose their credibility over the issue, Israeli politicians have warned.
Six months after the end of major hostilities, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq.
“Israeli intelligence was a full partner with the US and Britain in developing a false picture of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction capability,” said the author of the report, retired Brigadier General Shlomo Brom.
“It badly overestimated the Iraqi threat to Israel and reinforced the American and British belief that the weapons existed.”
“If Israeli intelligence had argued Iraq did not have capabilities and there was no real threat, it would have had some effect,” he said.
Senior Israeli politicians have expressed fears that the findings will have an impact on the perception of the country’s secret services.
“From now on, when we present serious data on other countries, like Iran for example, who will treat us seriously?” Israel Radio quoted Israeli left-wing parliamentarian Yossi Sarid as saying.
If you read the article completely, Israeli intelligence has warned India of the possibility of other 26/11 type attacks in India targeting Westerners & Israeli. Intelligence sharing is the first step in this cooperation. Sale of weapons & counter terrorism training are some other ones.
Can you defeat terror without engaging in a political process?
Can you defeat terror without engaging in a political process?
Well said! If fighting terror by weapons was the only way out, Israel would have defeated terrorism since a long time.
But the two (fighting terror and engaging in political process) need not be mutually exclusive. You do not have to not share information, procure sophisticated equipments etc. before engaging in political process. Being weak, undertrained, underinformed, would help neither deter/block terrorists nor support political process.
Same with India working together with Israel and also with Pakistan. Terrorism is a common threat to all of them. The more they cooperate, the better. However old issues like Dawood Ibrahim and new ones like the mismatch in expectations over the 26/11 help would make any development on this front quite difficult.
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On the subject of Israel, what is Pakistan getting for its zealous opposition to Israel? Pakistan has no natural quarrel with Israel given the distance between the two nations and no historical antagonism between Pakistani Muslims and Jews. Yet Pakistan does not recognize Israel, many Pakistanis obsess over Israel and believe in a zillion Jewish conspiracy theories, and Pakistan even sent pilots to fly Arab jets during some of the Israeli-Arab wars. What has Pakistan gotten in exchange for loyally saluting colonel Arab? The Arabs recognize India, trade with it, and generally have warm ties with India. It has driven Israel, which has one of the most technologically advanced militaries Asia, into the arms of Pakistan's historical rival India. The result of this is obvious: it strengthens India's military capabilities. While India receives high-tech military hardware from Israel, Pakistan receives lip service from their beloved "brothers." Pakistan is getting played by the "ummah" card. The Arabs get Pakistan to do their bidding in their conflict with Israel while Pakistan weakens itself and gets nothing from the Arabs against India. The Israeli-Arab conflict is an ethnic one, not a religious one. The Arabs only deploy the religious card when it suits them and they want to bind a billion non-Arab Muslims to their foreign policy agenda. Where were their "ummah" beliefs in 65' and 71'? Did they send any troops to help Pakistan or cut off oil to India? Where are they on Kashmir? Even Egypt and Jordan have peace treaties with Israel. It makes no sense for Pakistan not to have relations with Israel when some of Israel's Arab neighbors do.
First, that did not happen until 1967 when Jordan lost Jerusalem to Israel in the 67' Israeli-Arab war. What was Pakistan's beef with Israel from 1948-1967? Moreover, is one building in a foreign land worth weakening Pakistan's security? Pakistan needs to decide if it wants to protect its interests or serve as a vassal to the Arabs. Why doesn't Pakistan pressure the Arabs? Threaten to recognize Israel unless the key Arab states cut off their ties to India?
I never understood why Pakistan and Israel do not have bilateral relationship.
If you see Charlie Wilson's war, you can see even Zia collaborated with Israel but secretly.
Moreover, is one building in a foreign land worth weakening Pakistan's security?
Pakistan needs to decide if it wants to protect its interests or serve as a vassal to the Arabs.
It is not just "one building". It is Islam's first qiblah.
Quds does not belong to Arabs. It belongs to Muslims around the world.
May be because Zionists occupy Islam's holy land, and have follow an apartheid system of government.
How many times have I seen non-Muslims using Muslim names and promoting Zionist agendas on Pakistani websites!
Yeah that's why you turn a blind eye when Shi'ites are being murdered by Sunni extremists, right?
Muslims treat non-Muslims a lot worse, but I don't see you expressing outrage over it. Try being an Iraqi Christian in northern Iraq and see what it gets you.
