India’s intelligence community, for the first time, should be lauded for being vigilant and not colour-blind. The payment of Rs. 50,000/- as monthly rental for an average residential property by two Israeli citizens in Kochi, on multiple visit visas, attracted the attention of the authorities. Rs. 50,000/- is a big sum in the country where average rent is a tenth of that amount. This incident has now opened a Pandora’s Box and Indian authorities have suddenly woken up to the danger. While on one side Minister for Foreign Affairs S.M. Krishna has been on a goodwill mission to Israel, Israel has other plans focused on India by unleashing its usual clandestine operators to open ‘sleeper cells’ all over the country, to prepare Israel and US for any future eventuality.
India’s intelligence community had been forced to focus on ‘Islamic terrorism’ under tremendous pressure from the US. They belatedly found out about ‘Hindutva Terror’; while hundreds of innocent Indian Muslims rotted in jails and after years of incarceration they are being set free by courts, as innocents.
The new face of conspirators that has emerged in Kochi will present a very delicate diplomatic dilemma for the Manmohan Singh government as it is becoming more and more dependent on US and Israel for its supposedly ‘inadequate’ defence and security needs. Muslims, though primarily motivated by their antagonism to Israel over its treatment of Palestine problem, have been warning their government to beware of the universal nature of Jewish/Zionist/Israeli conspiracies. The Kochi incident is a wake-up call for Indian Government and saner elements will wake up from their myopic vision of viewing Israel through the eyes of the Muslim baiters and will independently sound alerts to find out how far this Israeli subversion has gone undetected, while our security agencies have been busy chasing the Muslim ‘terrorists’.
Ghulam Muhammed
Mumbai