British writer Robert Fisk commented on the ongoing dispute between Pakistan and India that Israel plays a big role in the escalation India is moving toward with its neighbor.
For months, Israel has been lining up with India's BJP government in a politically hostile "anti-Islam" coalition, an unofficial and unrecognized coalition, while India itself is now the biggest market for Israeli arms trade, Fisk said in an article in the Independent newspaper.
It is no coincidence that the Indian press has confirmed the fact that Israeli-made "smart bombs" Rafael Spies-2000 have been used by the Indian Air Force in its attack on the so-called "Army of Muhammad" terrorist inside Pakistan, 40 Indian soldiers were killed in Kashmir on 14 February.
The writer added that "between 300 and 400 terrorists" who supposedly killed Israeli-made smart bombs may prove to be only rocks and trees.
Fisk pointed out that India was the largest customer of Israeli arms in 2017, paying £ 530 million to Israeli air defense, radar and ammunition systems, including air-to-surface missiles, most of which were tested during Israeli military attacks against Palestinians and targets in Syria.
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Israel itself is trying to justify its continued sales of tanks, arms and warships to the military dictatorship in Myanmar, while Western countries impose sanctions on the government, which has tried to destroy its minority, mostly Muslim Rohingyas. But Israel's arms trade with India is legal and declared by both sides.
Israel's supportive role in India is illustrated by the joint maneuvers portrayed by the Israelis between its Special Forces and those sent from India for training in the Negev desert, and again with all the experience Israel has learned in Gaza and other fighting fronts that are full of civilians.
"Relations between India and Israel are in the context of the natural rapprochement of ideas between the ruling Bharatiya Janata party and the Likud parties," he wrote in a study of parliamentary researcher in Brussels, Shiri Malhotra, published in the Israeli daily Haaretz.
"Israel's biggest fan in India seems to be Internet Hindus who love Israel for how it treats Palestine and fighting Muslims," Malhotra said.
The writer concluded that the consensus on the "war on terror", especially the so-called "Islamic terrorism," may seem normal for two countries have built a colonial division threatens their Muslim neighbors security. In both cases, their struggle is the right to own or occupy the land.