{"id":36342,"date":"2018-11-02T12:24:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36342"},"modified":"2018-11-02T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:54:15","slug":"israel-backs-indias-fight-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/israel-backs-indias-fight-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel backs India\u2019s fight on terror:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/israel-backs-indias-defence-against-terror\/article19207057.ece\">Israel backs India\u2019s fight on terror<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israel has come out in total support of India on the subject of terrorism.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israel believes there is no difference between Pakistan-based \u201cLashkar-e-Taiba\u201d and the Hamas group operating in Israel and Palestine.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Close Cooperation<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark Sofer, Deputy Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry\u2019s Asia-Pacific department considers killing civilians for any spurious ideological reason is terrorism.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exchange of words against terrorism is being spoken at a briefing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s visit to Israel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The meeting is described as \u2018historic\u2019 with \u2018huge symbolic significance.\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India and Israel will sign a unique Strategic Partnership on non-security issues including Agriculture, Water, Science, technology and Space.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Lashkar-e-Taiba<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), also known as Army of the Pure or Army of the Righteous, is an Islamic militant organization based in Pakistan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was founded in 1990 by Hafiz Mohammed Saeed as the military wing of Pakistani Islamist organization Markaz-ad-Dawa-wal-Irshad (MDI), which promotes the Ahl-e-Hadith (AeH) interpretation of Islam, until it ostensibly split from the group in 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LeT was first active in the fight against the Soviet presence in Afghanistan but changed its focus to the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir when the state rebelled against Indian control in the early 1990s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LeT has reportedly been supported by Pakistan\u2019s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) since the early 1990s as one of many paramilitary groups used by Pakistan as proxy forces to create instability in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LeT sees the fight against Indian control over Jammu and Kashmir as part of a global struggle against the oppression of Muslims, and ultimately seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate in the Indian subcontinent.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Hamas<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist political organization and militant group that has waged war on Israel since the group&#8217;s 1987 founding\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most notably through suicide bombings and rocket attacks. It seeks to replace Israel with a Palestinian state. It also governs Gaza independently of the Palestinian Authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamas charter calls for destruction of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using suicide bombings against Israel in the 1990s and 2000s, though in recent years it has shifted to rockets and mortars as its weapons of choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organization also offers Palestinians a robust network of social services, which it developed as an alternative to deeply corrupt PA institutions.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel backs India\u2019s fight on terror:\u00a0 Context \u00a0Israel has come out in total support of India on the subject of terrorism. \u00a0\u00a0Israel believes there is no difference between Pakistan-based \u201cLashkar-e-Taiba\u201d and the Hamas group operating in Israel and Palestine. 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