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Israelis are thrilled about India’s abstention at the UNHRC vote on the Gaza war, Operation Protective Edge and the news that President Pranab Mukherjee will be the first Indian President to visit Israel this October. That Prime Minister Narendra Modi will follow soon is pathbreaking and testimony to the genuine strategic partnership. At a workshop on Role of State Actors in Promoting Terrorism, Extremism and Radicalism at the Counter Terrorism Summit at Tel Aviv, I warned Israelis not to miss the woods for the trees by over-estimating the nuclear threat from Iran: “you worry about Iran which does not have a bomb (as yet) but ignore Pakistan, the world’s leading exponent of terrorism, which has 200 bombs”.
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