“What does Israel’s terror crisis mean for India?”, First Post, October 8, 2023:
“Israel continues to reel from a massive and well-coordinated Hamas terror attack on Saturday. Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel, while hundreds of Hamas terrorists penetrated the Gaza Strip’s heavily fortified border with Israel. Some used bulldozers to break down fences. Others paraglided into Israel.
Terrorists may also have tunneled into Israel. The terrorists rampaged through nearby communities, grabbing hostages and going door-to-door, executing entire families. The attack represents Israel’s greatest intelligence failure in 50 years. Just as the intelligence failure surrounding the 1973 Yom Kippur War brought down Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir the following year, the current crisis puts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s career on life support.
While Israel is no stranger to terrorism, the current attacks will scar Israeli society as September 11, 2001, branded itself on American society and the November 2008 Mumbai attacks imprinted themselves onto India’s consciousness…..”
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