Israeli Phalcon sale to India in trouble

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Ram NArayanji,

Namaste,

I fully agree with you, it is our own fault and our selfishness that we

hindus cannot come together for a worthy cause in a demoratic way to acheive

our peaceful existance, therefore, we are still paying the price in every

sphere of life.

Sincerely,

Deen B. Chandora

 

 

 

>"Ram Narayanan" <ramn

>ramn

>"Deen Chandora" <deenbc

>Israeli Phalcon sale to India in trouble

>Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:36:34 -0400

>

>

>Dear Deen Chandora:

>

>It's a pity that Indian-Americans are not yet that powerful enough by

>themselves

>as a lobbying group to see this sale going through without active

>opposition

>from the United States. One way out is to see if we could get the powerful

>Israeli lobby in the US to get cracking!

>

>Any thoughts?

>

>Ram Narayanan

>Lobby for India on the internet at

>http://www.indiatogether.org/us/lobby.htm

>

>

>http://www.the-hindu.com/stories/03210007.htm

>

>

>ISRAELI PHALCON SALE TO INDIA IN TROUBLE

>

>By Kesava Menon

>

>JERUSALEM, AUG. 20. The U.S. administration is reported to be opposed to

>the Israeli sale of an advanced Airborne Early Warning System (AEWS) to

>India. Concerns that the Phalcon airborne system could undermine stability

>in South Asia by altering the balance of power between India and Pakistan

>was said to be the basis for the U.S. opposition.

>

>The report which appeared in today's edition of the respected Israeli

>newspaper

>Ha'aretz was sourced to an unnamed US official. A report in Ha'aretz

>several

>weeks ago had noted that the U.S. administration was trying to set up a

>special system to monitor weapons sales from Israel to India and 26 other

>countries. Today's report that the U.S. administration was considering

>active opposition to the deal suggested that the matter was being taken

>a step forward.

>

>The daily report also stated that the proposed sale of the Phalcon system

>was the main stumbling block to the signing of a new U.S.-Israel agreement

>for the supervision of Israeli arms exports. Israeli officials were said

>to be concerned that a new arms exports supervision agreement would enable

>the U.S. to veto the India deal.

>

>Under the circumstances it was not clear whether the report about U.S.

>opposition to the Phalcon sale was an inspired leak - to inform Israel

>that whether or not the export supervision deal was in place, opposition

>to the India deal would remain.

>

>The supervision agreement is germane to U.S. strategic concerns. Originally

>the U.S. had wanted Israel's exports to twenty-seven countries be subjected

>to the terms of this agreement. Now the U.S. reportedly wanted weapons

>exports to only four countries - India, Pakistan, Russia and China - to

>be brought within the ambit of the agreement.

>

>Pakistan, of course, does not have diplomatic relations with Israel and

>the question of arms deals between them should not normally arise unless

>the U.S. was privy to some special information.

>

>Israel's weapons deals with Russia and China, as also with India, are

>extremely

>lucrative. While the U.S. does not consider weapons sales to India as a

>potential threat to their own forces, they feel that advanced technology

>in the hands of China, could pose such a threat. It is possible that the

>U.S. is threatening to jeopardise the India deal, so that Israel softens

>its objections to the export-supervision agreement.

>

>U.S. officials were said to have promised their Israeli counterparts, in

>the course of talks held in Washington, that they did not plan to cast

>an automatic veto on arms deals, even in respect to deals pertaining to

>the four countries. However, the U.S. wishes that Israel give prior notice

>of transactions with the four countries.

>

>

 

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