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[Strange thing this - we befriend the nations that have funded the
terrorists and walk away from the friends who have fought them for years]
Israel, India Feel Pushed Aside For Sake Of Anti-Terror Drive
By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
October 16, 2001
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Israel and India, who see themselves as two of
America's most natural allies in President Bush's fight against Islamic
terrorism, both feel sidelined in the push to form an international
coalition.
Israel has been fighting Arab terrorism for more than 50 years, while
India has been fighting more than a dozen Islamic terror groups,
supported by its traditional foe Pakistan in disputed Kashmir for more
than a decade.
Yet the desire to have Arab and Muslim support for the drive against
terror following the Sept. 11 attacks has seen the U.S. and Britain
move to woo the Palestinians and Pakistan.
Patience with this approach appeared to be wearing thin in both India
and Israel this week, as India launched attacks against insurgents in
Kashmir and Israeli ministers bolted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
coalition to protest what they saw as concessions made by their
government under U.S. pressure.
What was said to be the heaviest fighting in a year between India and
Pakistan in Kashmir broke out on Monday just as Secretary of State Colin
Powell was due to meet with Pakistani leaders in Islamabad.
Military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf called the situation in Kashmir -
where at least 30,000 people have died in 12 years of fighting - a
freedom struggle.
Powell traveled on to New Delhi on Tuesday to meet Indian leaders. But
before leaving Islamabad he pledged America's "enduring commitment" to
U.S. relations with Pakistan.
"We are focusing today on the terrorist threat emanating from
Afghanistan, the al-Qaeda organization and Osama bin Laden," Powell said
at a press conference. "But ... we are also looking forward to
strengthening our cooperation on a full range of bilateral and regional
issues."
Prior to September 11, Pakistan was an ally of Afghanistan's ruling
Taliban militia, which is accused of harboring suspected terror
mastermind Osama bin Laden. Relations between India and the U.S.,
meanwhile, had been improving considerably.
The attacks in New York and Washington changed the picture dramatically.
It is no secret that India and Israel welcomed the prospect of an
international campaign against terrorism that would include militant
groups operating in Kashmir and Palestinian groups violently opposed to
Israel's existence.
President Bush has made it clear that he wants things to calm down in
Kashmir both now and in the future. Under pressure from Arab allies
like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Washington has also pressed for an
Israeli-Palestinian truce.
Murray Kahl, a pro-Israel analyst in the U.S., charged that in
Islamabad, Powell appeared to be "bribing a radical, Islamic country
with promises of future U.S. assistance."
"This ignores the terror elements within Pakistan, and the abandoning of
our natural ally India," Kahl said.
Indian ambassador to Israel Raminder Singh Jassal told a recent seminar
near Tel Aviv that the Taliban was the product of Pakistani political
strategy and claimed that Pakistan supported terrorists in Kashmir. The
U.S.-led war on terrorism should begin by delegitimizing those states
that support terrorism, he said.
In Israel, some have been stung by the American strategy.
National Infrastructure Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whose resignation
from the government will take effect on Wednesday, charged that Israel's
position in the world should have improved after Sept. 11, due to its
long struggle against terrorism.
"The State of Israel that for years stood at the forefront ... in the
war against worldwide terror ... needed to become the highlight of the
world, instead it became outsider," Lieberman said in a fiery
resignation speech.
"Even the Iranians have the right to a visit of the British Foreign
Minister...[and] Syria was received into the Security Council,"
Lieberman said, referring to two of Israel's most bitter enemies - both
of whom are on the State Department's list of states that sponsor
terrorism.
Jack Straw, the first British foreign minister to visit Iran since the
1979 Islamic revolution, angered Israelis when he said in Tehran that,
"one of the factors that helps breed terror is the anger that many
people in the region feel at events over the years in Palestine."
Syria won a temporary seat on the 15-member U.N. Security Council last
week, without opposition from the U.S.
While Israel lobbied the White House hard to have the names of several
Palestinian terrorist groups as well as the Iranian-backed
Lebanese-based Hizballah organization added to Bush's list of terror
organizations, Washington pressed Israel to reach a truce with the
Palestinian Authority.
As word emerged that Washington had come up with a new initiative for
the Middle East, which included a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as
its capital, Sharon accused the U.S. of appeasing Arab and Muslim
states, at Israel's expense.
Britain and the Netherlands have also in recent days promised PA
Chairman Yasser Arafat an independent state.
"Only we are outside of the picture, out of the coalition and even in
the visits in the area the Defense Minister, no one bothered to pass our
way," Lieberman said of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's recent
visit to the region.
"We have become the trouble-maker in the world instead of being the
highlight," he added.
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