Posted on 06/15/2012 6:09:58 PM PDT by MBT ARJUN
Israel today said it's official India Facebook page has the most 'Likes' after that of the US and the United Kindgom. The ISRAEL in INDIA Facebook page, launched by the Israelian Embassy in August, 2010, has received almost 20,000 'likes', a figure surpassed only by the pages of the US and the UK. Two decades after India and Israel established full diplomatic relations, ties between the two nations are extending far beyond traditional diplomacy, the Embassy said in a statement. Less than two years after the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi launched its activity on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other virtual platforms, Israel managed to gain “exceptional popularity” in the Indian social media arena, it said. The Embassy also launched a new website recently, which provides frequent updates on Israeli activities in India as well as a fresh and young look at Israel's society, history, culture and economy. The Embassy also operates specialised websites in Hindi and Urdu. “These results are impressive”, said Alon Ushpiz, Israel's Ambassador to India. “They mirror the warmth and friendship that we Israelis feel across India and they are yet another indication of the immense potential that lies in our relationship”, he added.
Indian Jews are a religious minority of India. Judaism was one of the first foreign religions to arrive in India in recorded history.... The Cochin Jews arrived in India 2,500 years ago and settled down in Kerala as traders....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_India
We know why Americans and the British like Israel (shared culture, a knowledge that our Christianity stems from Israel, and a shared War against Islam), and of course in America and probably to a lesser extend in UK a sizable Jewish minority. I think the reason why Indians like Israel is (some are Christians-for the same reason why we Americans and British do), but also because of a shared prolonged war against Islam that both Indian and Israel have endured.
Not really.
Anti-Semitism was rife in Europe for most of its history, and it carried over to America as well.
When the Crusaders were slaughtering the Jews in the Levant, and when the Inquisitioners repeated the same in their captive lands, the Jews have always found Hindu India welcoming them.
Who are the Jews of India? - The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
University of California Press. 2000. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-520-21323-4.
“When the Portuguese arrived in 1498, they brought a spirit of intolerance utterly alien to India. They soon established an Office of Inquisition at Goa, and at their hands Indian Jews experienced the only instance of anti-Semitism ever to occur in Indian soil.”
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Israelis and Indians both fully know the enemy they both face, increasingly aggressive, militant Islamofascism. They’ve been attacked. We’ve been attacked. They’ve tried to make peace. We’ve tried to make peace. There is no peace, so long as the Islamofascists believe they have the upper hand. And when you have them down and then try to make peace with them, they will believe they have the upper hand. Any Israeli knows this, and any Indian knows this, except for the politicians.
Genesis 17
4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. 5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. 6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
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Genesis 25
5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. 6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
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Many nations and India is one of them, where do you think yoga came from? Abraham gave gifts... and sent them east...
India and Israel are friendly because of historical and geopolitical reality, not because of the Bible.
And I had no idea Abraham invented yoga.
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