Tour of Israel

We just came back from Israel after a wonderful blessed tour of the country of two weeks. Had the blessed opportunity of visiting nearly 176 Biblical-Historical-archaeological sites in the country, led by a very competent expert Rev Dr Showry Babu whose eclectic presentations on the Biblical-Historical-archaeological-contemporary-scientific facets of information presented with amazing analytical clarity opened new vistas of this amazing country.

 Israel presents to the world the complexities of ancient civilization and contemporary modernity—of far reaching differences. It is the only lush green strip of land surrounded by the vast barrenness of desert of the West Asian Region. 

Literally, the Israelis had made their country bloom. For all the hype talk of Palestinian oppression by the mainstream media (which actually are whole set of blatant lies), Palestinians are much better off than Indians in our own country.

With a growing and solid economy amidst all the plaguing economic gloom of the rest of the world, Israel’s economy, society and polity possess an amazing resilience that has withstood the global economic crisis.

India has a lot of dependence on Israel for its national security needs and has been enjoying a solid relationship with Israel. Yet India has a lot to learn from Israel the strengths of good governance, transparency, hygiene and in infrastructure development that Israel is well known for. Israel is safe internally—only the external threats of terrorism do affect them. But the remarkable manner in which they have tackled the external threats has been amazing and it has minimized these threats.

India needs to learn from Israel of how deterrence works from the asymmetric to the strategic. Though a very small state about the size of Kerala; Israel is bountiful in human resources, extremely talented country, high levels of high technology and industrilisation that coexists with bountiful agriculture and self-sufficiency.

Israel’s amazing resources are indeed a source of transformation of several Arab Gulf States—though they do not recognize them, yet depend on them for everything else from desalination to solar power to biotechnology, nanotechnology to intelligence cooperation.

It is time that India bolsters its ties with Israel as that would benefit this country in all walks of life particularly in the area of military modernization and intelligence cooperation

Truly, this is God’s own country and the Jews are indeed the most Blessed people of all nations in the world.

07 May 2014