What Does Israel’s Terror Crisis Mean For India? - News18
News 18Israel continues to reel from a massive and well-coordinated Hamas terror attack on Saturday. Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel, while hundreds of Hamas terrorists penetrated the Gaza Strip’s heavily fortified border with Israel. Just as the intelligence failure surrounding the 1973 Yom Kippur War brought down Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir the following year, the current crisis puts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s career on life support. While Israel is no stranger to terrorism, the current attacks will scar Israeli society as September 11, 2001, branded itself on American society and the November 2008 Mumbai attacks imprinted themselves onto India’s consciousness. Israeli generals and strategists therefore began to talk about “mowing the grass,” the idea that every so often, Israel would launch a counter-terror operation to take out Hamas weapons factories and disrupt terror infrastructure.