This natural partnership between India and Israel helps explain why the entire tech industry in the USA has been enjeetified, and may even predict where one of the flashpoints of the 2050s and beyond will be.
For Israel, India represents a steadfast ally in an increasingly critical world. Neither India’s government nor its Muslim minority has been anything like as vocal over Israel’s offensive in Gaza — which has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, and reduced most of the enclave to rubble — as their counterparts in Europe.
“Israel is probably today the most trusted partner as far as India is concerned in terms of strategic partnerships,” says Happymon Jacob, director of the Council for Strategic and Defense Research, a New Delhi-based think-tank.He adds that “even the Russians . . . may be ambivalent about their support for India” given the Kremlin’s ties to China, India’s big regional rival, and also cites Trump’s increasingly strained personal relationship with Modi. “Therefore, you are probably looking at Israel as the country that comes without any strings attached, even when it comes to intelligence sharing, when it comes to weapon systems.”
Azar, the Israeli ambassador, notes parallels in the evolution of India and Israel as independent nations from 1947 and 1948.
“We both started as states that are secular and socialist,” he says. “And we became more conservative and more capitalist” and “to a certain extent” more religious. That, he says, makes the two countries “natural partners” in a sometimes hostile world.
Greater Israel has needed a new partner since China declined the opportunity to replace the USA. India was the solution with regards to the manpower problem, but no one wants to live in India, including the Indians. And then there is the obvious conflict between two low-trust cultures in close proximity to consider. Thus the Argentine development, which if this reading is correct means that we can expect to see a major Argentine-Indian-Israeli alliance soon. Call it AIIPAC…
Which means that the latter half of the 21st century may see South America turning into what the Middle East was the second half of the 20th century.