Israel protests Indian government support for embassy bomber.

[Braznor]

Israel has issued a vehement protest to India after a number of senior Indian politicians attended an event last week honoring journalist Syed Kazmi, who is charged with involvement in an attack on the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi in February 2012.

Kazmi, the only person arrested after the attack, is charged with being an agent of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in New Delhi for at least 10 years.

A senior Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem said the April 17 event marked the launch of a new newspaper, of which Kazmi will be editor-in-chief. The event was attended by the chief minister of the state of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit, and several members of parliament. The publisher of the new Urdu-language paper is the father of Kazmi’s lawyer, Mahmood Paracha, who has also represented Dikshit in the past.

In addition to those who attended the event, a number of other senior Indian officials sent letters of congratulations and support for the new publication. Reports of the event reached the Israeli Embassy, which alerted the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. After consultations it was decided not to summon the Indian ambassador to Israel for a reprimand but to instead deliver a sharply worded message directly to senior officials in New Delhi.

Israeli Ambassador to India Alon Ushpiz spoke with several senior Indian officials and clarified that Israel viewed the attendance of senior officials at the event very gravely. The Indians, for their part, tried to explain their actions and soothe Israel’s anger.

“We find it most inappropriate to acknowledge and honor a person who is facing such extremely serious charges,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said. “We have expressed our view to the government of India, within the open and frank dialogue that the two countries maintain.”

On February 13, 2012, Tali Yehoshua-Koren, wife of the Defense Ministry representative in India, was wounded while driving one of the embassy vehicles to pick up her children from school. An unknown motorcyclist had attached a bomb to the rear of the vehicle and fled seconds before the blast.

Israel blamed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards for the attack. In July 2012, the Indian Police released the results of its investigation, which found that Iranian elements had been behind the attack. The report alleged that Kazmi had helped collect intelligence that aided in the bombing.

Kazmi was the only one arrested because the other members of the Iranian terror cell succeeded in fleeing the country within 24 hours of the blast. Kazmi was jailed for several months and released on bail this past October, despite Israel’s protests. Indian authorities claimed that under local laws, they could not hold Kazmi in custody until the end of legal proceedings. Kazmi’s trial is proceeding slowly, to Israel’s frustration.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-protests-india-s-feting-of-journalist-accused-of-aiding-iran-in-new-delhi-car-bombing.premium-1.517428

India is so fucked up at the moment, the Indian government thinks nothing of its officials honoring a person who collaborated attacks on Israeli embassy staff members. Screw the Indian government for its appeasement of terrorists. :thumbsdown:

 

[Oyeve]

Wah wah Wah, screw israel. Who cares? India gets nothing from israel.

 

[peonyu]

Wah wah Wah, screw israel. Who cares? India gets nothing from israel.

The largest and most powerful lobby in the US cares, and it just so happens to be the Jewish lobby [AIPAC]. If anything India might be at risk of losing some aid to its country, not a huge loss, but for a country with 1.2 billion people and most of them are starving and cant even read or write...its going to hurt.

 

[Oyeve]

The largest and most powerful lobby in the US cares, and it just so happens to be the Jewish lobby [AIPAC]. If anything India might be at risk of losing some aid to its country, not a huge loss, but for a country with 1.2 billion people and most of them are starving and cant even read or write...its going to hurt.

nothing will happen. Nothing at all.

 

[Braznor]

Wah wah Wah, screw israel. Who cares? India gets nothing from israel.

India and Israel have research collaboration going in many fields of technology including military. India also has a very good relationship with Iran at the moment. I always wonder if there will ever come a time when India is forced to drop Iran from its list of pals and takes a clear side in this conflict. If there ever comes a choice between Iran or Israel, I would always pick Israel myself.

 

[Braznor]

The largest and most powerful lobby in the US cares, and it just so happens to be the Jewish lobby [AIPAC]. If anything India might be at risk of losing some aid to its country, not a huge loss, but for a country with 1.2 billion people and most of them are starving and cant even read or write...its going to hurt.

No external aid is ever going to help poor, starving Indians because it always get gobbled up by corrupt Indian politicians.

 

[iGas]

The kettle call the pot black.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ael-is-calling-for-pollard-s-release-now.html

Israeli protesters hold portraits of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Jewish-American spy Jonathan Pollard during a protest in front of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv on July 17, 2012 to call for the release of the spy. (JACK GUEZ / AFP / Getty Images)

Pollard’s advocates are a sometimes-uneasy coalition of far-rightists who view him as a Jewish martyr, if not a hero, and moderates who see his severe sentence as unfair.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism

 

[Braznor]

The kettle call the pot black.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ael-is-calling-for-pollard-s-release-now.html

Israeli protesters hold portraits of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Jewish-American spy Jonathan Pollard during a protest in front of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv on July 17, 2012 to call for the release of the spy. (JACK GUEZ / AFP / Getty Images)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism

How is the relevant to the case? Pollard is right now in jail and not the editor in chief of some media organization being honored by senior politicians of your country. In India, the terrorist is being open honored as Editor in chief of some org and is out roaming in the open, his circumstances are completely unlike Pollard's who got a prison term for his crime.

Also please do not equate an intelligence leak with a violent terror attack. Is this some kind of skewed moral relativism?

 

[Incorruptible]

India is hardly anti-Israel. The current government in Israel is very left wing and was it the whole the government?

Also many of the people in India don't support this guy or the bomber.