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In recent years, Israel has worked toward improving relations with its Arab neighbors, notably through the Abraham Accords signed in 2020, which normalized ties with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Despite this, its relations with Palestine and other Arab states remain tense, particularly around contentious issues such as the status of Jerusalem and the future of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
War broke out in October 2023 and the region plunged into intense conflict after Hamas launched a large-scale attack on Israel. This violence over a year extended significantly to parts of Lebanon and Syria so much so that the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Mohammed Deif, a commander from the genocidal terror group Hamas. A ceasefire came into force on January 2025 with both Israel and Hamas promising to return hostages, however, the broader question of a two-state solution persists amid the dwindling rights of Palestinians and threats posed by insurgent groups.
Well you heard it from a man of stature of a Prime Minister of Israel. He mentioned twice that bureaucrats need to be tamed.Our nation will develop many folds if bureaucrats perform their duties even to 50% correct. We have the worst bureaucracy in whole of Asia. They just pass their tough examination and thereafter no assessment and you become a sarkari damad.
Totally agree with Adit, no matter what has happened in the past/present or future, India will always be Pakistan’s friendi. Yes currently there are issues between Pakistan and India, but they are not as bad as the media tends to make out. I live in Pakistan myself and we have quite a few family and friends in India. When we visit, we also go and join our family’s Hindu neighbours for their Deewali celebrations. I say to hell with Netanyahu whom is just looking at creating a barrier between our countries. Your forgetting that the majority of Hard Power he’s talking about hasn’t been built by Israel, but has been handed over to them on a plate by America in the billions of dollars they get every year. Without them, Israel would be nothing.
If India has 1 true friend, its Israel. Israel helped India in Kargil war wid arms n ammo when no other country was willing. It did so against wishes of U.S. Without laser guided missiles provided by Israel, it wud have been very difficult for India to fight the war. They helped in 71 & 48wars too, though India voted against Israel in U.N. so many times.
https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/fyi/story/israel-helped-india-during-kargil-war-modi-in-israel-diplomatic-ties-1022521-2017-07-05
What are you saying? Pakistan is a friend – our PM goes for their PM’s budday party. Sri Lanka is a friend. Their cricket team never says No to playing bat ball with our lovely tots. Bangladesh is a friend – they are an alibi for everything that we do wrong in the east. When in doubt, call Bangla out. Nepal is a friend – though it is very worrying that ONE Hindu nation in this world, and India has managed to tiff with them also. Bhutan – ofcourse. All our surgical strikes they offer us access despite the loudmouth never keeping quiet. China are our best friends – our digital economy and Patel’s statue’s head they helped build. It’s all because of the charming personality of the PM. Mr Congeniality. Sarcasm aside, Netanyahu’s silly precedent not needed. Thanks but no Thanks
Same can be said about India, name ONE neighbour who is a friend?
Our one Shah Rukh Khan is enough to negate bullying power of 35 F 35s.
“You need F-35s (fighter jets), cyber, a lot of intelligence” . Really? Or Israel needs business and a market? A country that can’t live peacefully with one neighbour – ONE – and has friends in single digits, lives in perpetual fear and paranoia because it’s never learnt to cooperate, has zero consideration for inhabitants of where they set up their nation – is teaching India, what it needs. Do Indians a favour – give us the tech, take the suitable price, and spare us this advice. And don’t worry – if you don’t give us tech, someone else will. If not, finally Indians will Make something themselves. And you need to have soft power for it to work. India’s does. Israel might want to consider building some.