Envoy: Israel 100% with India on terror

June 30: Israel’s ambassador to India Mark Sofer on Wednesday said his country is “100 per cent behind India in its fight against terrorism on the Kashmir issue, regardless of India’s stand on the Palestine conflict.”

He said India was an enormously respected international player whose goals for peace in West Asia both Israel and Palestine shared, even as he denounced Iran’s Ahmedinejad as a “Hitlerite who wants to eradicate Israel” and Pakistan as the “last country that should lecture to us on human rights”.

Mr Sofer was in Bengaluru to meet Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to discuss opportunities for growing Israeli investment in Bengaluru’s high tech industry as well as in other sectors, such as agriculture, across Karnataka.
India-Israel trade has grown from $180 million in 2001 to $4.1 billion, excluding the burgeoning defence trade, and the two countries have now started talks on a Free Trade Agreement


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