Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Historic Visit to India: ‘Israel, India Both Face Threat From Radical Islam’

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India and Israel are two top targets for Islamic terror and have been through history. Theirs is an important alliance, and together they will do great things. This is a new era in the fight for freedom in the region. For decades, the Indian government has kept its distance from Israel, for fear of its large Muslim minority and its dependence on oil. But Indian Prime Minister Modi is a visionary, and under his courageous and historic leadership, the two sides have come together and embraced a closer relationship.

Prime Minister Netanyahu brought Moshe Holtzberg and the nanny who rescued him return with his delegation. One of the most brutal, mass Islamic attacks on Western and Jewish targets in India took place in Mumbai, India in 2008. 166 people were murdered, hundreds injured. The Jewish Chabad house was part of a larger attack on popular hotels and public buildings. Because they were so eager to see murdered Jews, the organizers of the attack had sought out the Chabad House with care, choosing it for slaughter over one year prior to the attack. Their attackers’ handlers would emphasize to the jihadis on the ground the importance of killing Jews. Moshe Holtzberg’s parents, the Rabbi and his wife were among the victims. His nanny saved him (and then later became his mom). They were tortured, sexually mutilated before their gruesome killings. Among those involved in the execution of the attack was an American Muslim in Chicago.

The chilling words of the Muslim Mumbai killers recorded during their murder spree: “Keep killing, keep killing, the dogs.’ “Insh’Allah” ‘The manner of your death will instill fear in the unbelievers. This is a battle between Islam and the unbelievers”

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Prime Minister Modi understands the Islamic threat.

Netanyahu: Israel, India Both Face Threat From Radical Islam

VOA, January 17, 2017

NEW DELHI — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he was discussing with India ways to strengthen security cooperation against the menace of from Islamist extremism that both democracies faced.

Netanyahu spoke while on a six-day tour of India, the first by an Israeli premier for 15 years, and is being feted by Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, whose Hindu nationalist party has long admired Israel for its tough posture against terrorism.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, is welcomed by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his arrival at Palam airport in New Delhi Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, is welcomed by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his arrival at Palam airport in New Delhi Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018.

India, wary of upsetting Arab nations on which it was dependent for oil, and heeding the sentiments of its own large Muslim minority, kept a distance from Israel for decades. But under Modi, the two sides have embraced a closer relationship based on security and economics.

The right-wing Netanyahu told a security conference that India and Israel were two democracies with a natural affinity, but their open and liberal societies faced risks.

“Our way of life is being challenged, most notably, the quest for modernity, the quest for innovation [are] being challenged by radical Islam and its terrorist offshoots from a variety of corners,” he said.

Both Israel and India have long sought to counter militant Islamists — in Israel’s case, mainly from Gaza and Egypt’s Sinai region and, in India’s case, mainly from Pakistan. Away from the public eye, India and Israel have been cooperating against the threat through, in part, intelligence sharing, officials say.

“We’ve discussed in this visit how we can strengthen our two nations in the civilian areas, in security areas, in every area,” Netanyahu told the conference.

His trip to India comes just six months after Modi made the first trip by an Indian prime minister to Israel, during which he did not go to Ramallah, seat of the self-ruling Palestinian Authority and a customary stop for leaders visiting the region.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the King David hotel in Jerusalem, July 5, 2017.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the King David hotel in Jerusalem, July 5, 2017.

Netanyahu toured the Taj Mahal on Tuesday and will also visit Modi’s home state of Gujarat and India’s financial capital Mumbai.

He will join an 11-year-old Israeli boy, Moshe Holtzberg, whose parents were murdered by Pakistan-based militants in Mumbai in 2008, for a memorial event at the Indian financial hub’s Jewish center where the attack took place.

The boy, who lives with his grandparents in Israel, arrived on Tuesday as a guest of Modi.

An Indian man walks past a hoarding put up to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that features him along with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology (iCreate) near Bavla in Ahmada

Moshe Holtzberg and the Nanny Who Rescued Him Return to Mumbai

First time back to scene of November 2008 terror attack

Moshe Holtzberg, right, fondly known as “Baby Moshe,” together with Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, look out from Nariman (Chabad) House, as well-wishers wave and blow kisses to Moshe. (Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
Moshe Holtzberg, right, fondly known as “Baby Moshe,” together with Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, look out from Nariman (Chabad) House, as well-wishers wave and blow kisses to Moshe. (Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)

Moshe Holtzberg returned to Mumbai, India, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former nanny Sandra Samuel to unveil plans for a state-of-the-art Living Memorial at the city’s Chabad center, more commonly referred to as Nariman House, to commemorate all victims of the terror attacks that took place on Nov. 26, 2008.

This is Moshe Holtzberg’s first visit back to India and the Nariman House, scene of the brutal attack that left his parents, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, murdered, and from which he was rescued by the heroic Samuel.

The following are photos from their first day back in India in nearly 10 years.

(Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
(Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
(Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
(Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
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(Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
Sandra Samuel, the nanny who heroically saved Moshe Holtzberg during the November 2008 terror attacks, sits for an interview in Nariman (Chabad) House. (Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
Sandra Samuel, the nanny who heroically saved Moshe Holtzberg during the November 2008 terror attacks, sits for an interview in Nariman (Chabad) House. (Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
Rabbi Israel and Chaya Kozlovsky, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, with Samuel. (Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
Rabbi Israel and Chaya Kozlovsky, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, with Samuel. (Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
(Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
(Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
(Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
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(Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
(Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
Moshe in the synagogue with his paternal grandfather, Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg. (Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
Moshe in the synagogue with his paternal grandfather, Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg. (Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
In the Nariman House library with his maternal grandparents, Rabbi Shimon and Yehudit Rosenberg. (Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org)
In the Nariman House library with his maternal grandparents, Rabbi Shimon and Yehudit Rosenberg. (Photo: Chabad of Mumbai/Chabad.org
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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

The world will form alliances against islam, then, crush it from every angle. When islam ceases to exist, the world will rejoice, especially the millions who will be liberated, enslaved by islam.

mezcukor
mezcukor
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I hope so

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

… Radical Islam

There is only ONE iSSlam 3/141 -> 4/89, 9/5, 8/17 of radical no. 1 40/2 (overthrow the current government)
https://quran.com/4/74-76 https://quran.com/8/39 https://quran.com/9/29-33 ‘… a clear CONQUEST’ https://quran.com/48/1-28

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
6 years ago

Israel, India Both Face Threat From Radical Islam

And moderate Islam, which seems to spontaneously radicalize for no apparent reason.

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

… Prime Minister Modi understands the Islamic threat.

… cause India has had once before a deathly meeting with Islam, at least 70 million casualties

-> ‘… a clear conquest’ https://quran.com/48/1-28 -> give RISE to Pakistan

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago

A moslem is a moslem is a moslem. They are ALL the same.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
6 years ago

They are ALL the same.

That is as idiotic a comment as I have ever heard. As if over a billion people “are all the same”. You show zero insight into humanity.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago

And, litty, you show the intellect of an aphid. Too bad, for you, that there is no cure for stupid, inane little thing that you are.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
6 years ago

Zero content to your bilge.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago

You are SO much fun to laugh AT. Zero content to your entire life. You ARE bilge .. you poor little thing.

Philosophy
Philosophy
6 years ago

Islam was once destroyed, in its own land–Turk—by Britishers, by Mustafa-Kamel Pasha, but it was extreme stupidity of Gandhi….the so called freedom fighter…not of India but of Pakistan…..bring back that Islam and not only India but all western world is suffering. Now under leadership of Modi, or of right wing politician, Indian should again destroy Islam and free the world again.

Today’s world, includes all western nations suffer due to Gandhi and his left wing policy. Gandhi was the founder of left wing politics. He bring religion, in to secular politics, and it was greatest sin.

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Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
6 years ago

Listen, jackass, do us both a favor, and just skip over my comments- they are not for you. You have shown, through your idiotic responses to my comments, that you have not taken the time to attempt to understand my comments.

I do “champion” the idea of moderate Moslems, who can interpret their horrid canon in a manner they see fit. The distinction between moderate Moslems and the murderous canon of that “religion” is one that seems to escape you.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago

Little litty, My, my … such vulgar profanity. Does the truth hurt THAT much? You poor little thing.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago

Little litty is a moslem loving islamophiliac, if not an outright moslem. That thing is a blast to laugh AT.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

India has fought several wars against Pakistan, and millions were killed when India was first partitioned into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan. But there are still hundreds of millions of Muslims in India, so it is a constantly vexing problem, how to keep civil peace.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

The best way is to give those Muslims another path — to convert from Islam to another religion.

rajiv irodov
rajiv irodov
6 years ago

I know there are valid reasons to hate Islam but I think the westeners in the comment section should not forget that Winston Churchill once described Hindus as a foul race and an insult to mankind. So why symphatise with Hindus?

rajiv irodov
rajiv irodov
6 years ago

The Hindus are even worse. They still practice caste system untouchability. Burn their wife’s.they are lazy stupid and easily manipulated by power and have no moral priciples why are u defending them is my question forget Islam and Muslims from here.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

Israel and India must stand strong and united against the threat of Islamic jihad.

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