Lessons from Gaza: India cannot ignore security threats in Kashmir

Pakistan is always ready to target India by sponsoring terrorism, whether it is the Khalistani one or Kashmiri separatism; India should be prepared for any eventuality In Kashmir, working for Le Figaro and other newspapers, the author noticed four similarities between the Muslims of Gaza and the Muslims of the Valley of Kashmir. During various sojourns of the author in the Valley of Kashmir, he has met university professors, High Court retired judges, housewives, etc, who would tell him after some time that their sympathy goes to the terrorists “because they are fighting for a just cause and because Muslims are persecuted, whether it is in Kashmir, in Palestine, in Chechnya, or in France”. The author remembers these people asking him, “So, you are coming from India?” They live in India and have Indian passports; they don’t mind when the Indian government gives them quotas and rations, and when Indian tourism brings untold riches to almost all of them. “We dissimulate our true beliefs, especially if we live in countries where we are in minority.” Or: “Okay with you, you’re a White man, we might tell you but to Indians, to the government, to Mr Modi, to the BJP, to the Congress, we will hide our convictions.” Also in Gaza, the Palestinians and even Hamas gained the sympathy of NGOs like Médecins sans Frontières, who closed their eyes to the fact that tunnels were built below the hospitals where they worked.