India-Israel why so much mokhamakhi?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived on Sunday on a six-day state visit. It was such a talk that a minister at the airport would welcome him. But everyone surprised Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself. Shake hands with 'Friend' with Netanyahu

Six months ago, during a visit to Israel as India's first prime minister, Modi addressed Netanyahu as 'friend'. Friendship is not limited to India-Israel alone, Modi-Netanyahu also has a friendship relationship. After World War II, there was no clear relation between India and Israel during the Cold War. But India has become closer to Israel in the last 25 years. But why so much mokhamakhi?

History says that from the very beginning, there is some flexible India to Israel. India voted against United Nations plan to form two independent states in Israel and Palestine in 1947 New Delhi formally recognizes Israel in the 1950s. In 1953, the Israel Consulate opened in Mumbai. Later in the Soviet Union-US Cold War, the Soviet Bloc was India. Again, at that time, one of the alliance of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It is said that due to these reasons, New Delhi did not have any relation with the United States' close ally Israel at that time.

But after the fall of the Soviet Union, India-Israel came closer. In 1992, India established diplomatic relations with Israel in full diplomatic relations with Israel. Afterwards, the relations between the two countries continued to move smoothly. In continuation of this, in 2002, the Indian Space Research Organization, in collaboration with the Israeli Space Agency, for the assistance of space exploration cooperation. In 2006, signed agreement on agricultural cooperation between the two countries. And last year, the $ 250 million missile took joint programs to build a defense.

However, for the independence of the Palestinians, there are different times of India. According to some others, India has kept some balance in relations with Israel. One of the reasons is that India's large number of Muslim populace. No government wants to discourage them due to voting. Another reason is that India is dependent on Iran and Arab countries for oil import. These countries favor the independent Palestine state. New Delhi did not want to go against this position.

Last month, the United Nations voted against Israel to vote for India. A proposal was approved in the United Nations on behalf of the withdrawal of recognition of Holy President Jerusalem as the Israeli capital of the US President Donald Trump. In the voting held in the United Nations General Assembly on the proposal, 128 members voted for the proposal. One of which was India. Apurba Goutam, head of BDS's India branch of the Palestinian Liberty Organization, about such a position in New Delhi, said that during the United Nations voting, India did not really want to go outside the international community's view. And the international community's pressure was also on New Delhi.

The demand of close relations would have been that Israel should have stayed at least in the United Nations; As was forbidden from another 35 countries. Sriram Chawlia, Dean of Jindal School of International Affairs at O ​​P Jindal Global University, said Israel has realized the real situation in India. So despite voting against Israel, Israel has not provided any conditions for mutual cooperation with India.

A report in the Jerusalem Post said that Nehru did not have public relations with Israel during the Cold War, but in 1962, he wanted Israel to seek arms during the war with China. At that time, Israel gave arms assistance. In addition, in 1965 and 1971, Israel gave arms to India. In 1965, the US and Soviet arms embargo were against India and Pakistan. So to go to a third country, New Delhi After the fall of the Soviet era, India went to Israel to easily get modern weapons easily. As a reason, India has bought old traditional weapons at different times from Russia and the United States. Israel is a good alternative for modern weapons.

Asia is India's third largest economy. Israel is getting closer to India as one of the few countries with close cooperation. It is also known as a kind of achievement for Israel. Israel is also the largest arms importer of Israel. The country imports $ 100 million of weapons and equipment every year from Israel. Outside of this, the fields of cooperation are increasingly growing in the fields of energy, agriculture and others. Israel is seeing it as a big positive. That is why Netanyahu said in India about the issue of the vote against Israel in the United Nations, "At some time, mutual relations can not be judged by just one vote."

In 130 years, the delegation of 130 people who took the first Israeli prime minister to India with Netanyahu came in. New Delhi says that Netanyahu's visit will include a deal between cyber security, energy, space cooperation and film-making sectors between the two countries. Apart from this, the progress of the implementation of the technology, water and agreements related to the earlier signed treaties between the two countries will be reviewed.

But the center of mutual cooperation between India and Israel will be called technology and defense sector.

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