Of the 1.3 billion people in India, at least 1.1 million Hindus and Sikhs have no love for Islam. When Muslims ruled over India, between 70 and 80 million Hindus were massacred, until those Mughal rulers realized it was better to keep the Hindus alive so that they might provide the jizyah that would support the Muslim state. India and Israel thus have a natural affinity with one another, sharing a common enemy,, and the latest defense deals between the two countries are another example of the ties that bind. More on those deals can be found here: “Israel’s Rampage missile success in Operation Sindoor drives new India defense deal,” Jerusalem Post, November 10, 2025:
Ministry of Defense director general Gen. (res.) Amir Baram last week signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with his Indian counterpart Rajesh Kumar Singh for strengthening defense collaboration. India is the biggest customer of Israel’s defense industries, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Between 2020 and 2024, India accounted for about 34% of all Israel’s defense exports.
Building on this, a delegation from the Indian Ministry of Defense has secretly visited Israel, as reported on the “India Defense Research Wing” website, to reach agreements that would allow India to not only procure Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) Air Lora ballistic missiles and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ice Breaker cruise missiles, but also to manufacture them.
Allowing another country to manufacture its most advanced ballistic and cruise missiles is a sign of how close the Jewish state’s ties with India have become. It is especially notable because India also has ties to Russia, and if the Russians were to acquire that missile technology, and then to pass it on to Moscow’s quasi-ally Iran, this would be cause for alarm. Apparently Israel’s defense and security establishment has faith that the Indians will be able to protect the secrets of the Jewish state’s latest ballistic and cruise missiles. I assume that no Muslims will be involved in the manufacturing of those missiles.
Previous reports in India have already suggested that India wants Air Lora missiles following the great success of the Rampage missiles during recent skirmishes with Pakistan. Rampage has a range of about 250 kilometers, and the Indian Air Force deploys it on Sukhoi 30 and MiG 29 aircraft. It is very precise, but its range puts India’s combat aircraft at risk from Pakistan’s Chinese-produced air defense systems. The Air Lora missile has a range of 400 kilometers, which enables combat aircraft to hit their targets without endangering themselves in the face of advanced air defenses.
Air Lora, which was developed in IAI’s MLM Division, is designed for attacking missile sites, military bases, and air defense systems, without endangering planes and pilots. The missile weighs 1,600 kilograms, flies at supersonic speeds, and uses satellite navigation protected against disruption. One of its outstanding features is that it is “fire and forget”, meaning that once it has been launched at the target, there is no need to guide it. It can carry various warheads, for deployment against soft targets or against bunkers. With its 400 kilometers range and accuracy to within ten meters, it will enable India to hit any Pakistani base.
At the same time, India is also interested in the “Ice Breaker” cruise missile, which is designed for attacks at ranges of about 300 km against land and sea targets. The missile is effective in all weather conditions, can function well in environments saturated with electronic warfare, and has infrared (IIR)-based navigation and missile guidance capabilities, which, through AI, can acquire and identify targets.
Israeli defense industries in general, and IAI in particular, are very experienced in operations in India….
The Indian military was impressed with how well the Rampage missiles that it had bought from Israel performed in the latest skirmish with Pakistan. And that, in turn, made the Indians eager to acquire the Air Lora ballistic missiles and the “Ice Breaker” cruise missiles from Israel. In fact, the Israelis did not agree just to sell both missiles to India, but to allow the Indians to manufacture them, a sign of the tremendous trust between the two states’ militaries.
One wonders if, given India’s eagerness to have access to Israel’s advanced weaponry, the Israelis could not persuade the Indians to cease voting against the Jewish state at the UN, and even, instead of voting “Present,” do the right thing and vote, along with the United States and a dozen other countries, against those endless anti-Israel resolutions that keep being brought to a vote at the General Assembly.
Jay Bhattacharjee says
There is a critical error (hopefully typographical) at the very beginning of this article. It says that “1.1 million Hindus and Sikhs have no love for Islam”. It should read “1.1 billion” Instead of “1.1 miilion”. I am not being clerical or argumentative.
Best wishes.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Sadly, at least 50% of Hindus are secular “Hindus”, who fall in any of these categories:
⮞ Claim that they look at all religions as the same
⮞ Claim that Hinduism is not a religion but a way of life (Modi falls in this category)
⮞ Don’t have any concerns regarding islam, and engage in ego-quoque arguments about Hinduism having the same faults as islam
There is a reason that no Hindu party has ever one an election in India. And yeah, BJP is not a Hindu party, contrary to popular myth
I’d say that at most, 0.4 billion Hindus are hostile to islam. Thanks to the Khalistan movement, I have no idea what that number is among Sikhs
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Of course. Sorry. The other day I wrote “billions” when I meant to write “millions.” Clearly, I need to proofread.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Israel should perk up and make that diplomatic support a condition for receiving any Israeli support, be it technology transfers or weaponry or anything else. In 1962, when India fought its war against China, they were desperate for Israeli support. Nehru, who was a steadfast chum of Nasser, wanted Israeli support, but w/o Israeli markings on the weaponry their received, so that he would have plausible deniability w/ his Arab pals. Israel simply refused, so India accepted the Israeli support even if it had to be overt
About India’s relations w/ both Russia and Israel, I recall several months ago, when Indians were looking for work abroad in these 2 countries. Russia put its Indian guest-workers on the border w/ Ukraine and tricked them into joining the war effort, and India had to put diplomatic appeals to Moscow to return them. Israel used its Indian guest workers to replace the Palis who had been fired after October 7th, and they found that they were better treated than their compatriots in countries like Kuwait and Qatar
Right now, public Hindu support for Israel is overwhelming, not counting Leftist HINOs. Israel is in a better position to force India to vote w/ it at the UN, even if they’re the only country doing so
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Another point I keep making: it was 150 million Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs who were massacred by muslims in India:
⮞ KS Lal provides a number of 70 million b/w the years 1000-1525AD ie from Mahmoud of Ghazni to before the start of the Mughal empire
⮞ Will Durant provides a number of 80 million b/w the years 1526-1799 ie from Babur to Tipu Sultan
It would be good if there was more study on this to find out more data points, but in absence of that, it’s not unreasonable to just add Durant’s and KS Lal’s numbers, since they constituted mutually exclusive periods of Indian history
dumbledoresarmy says
And the thing that people need to bear in mind, too when looking at those horrific estimated death tolls inflicted upon India by invading mass-murderers from the Religion of Blood And War i.e. Islam, is that the total human population of planet earth during the period from 1000-1525, or even during the period from 1526 to 1799, was a LOT smaller than it is now, so that for the Muslims to murder millions of people, meant that Muslims were killing off a very significant percentage of the whole of then-existent humanity.
Has anybody in the counter jihad considered doing some graphs? ‘estimated total human population in 800-900 AD’ ‘estimated total number of humans killed by Muslims during 800-900 AD’, and so on…?
I do remember reading that during the Mamluk period in the ‘middle east’ (and they ruled over Egypt, then still a breadbasket’) the total population in the areas over which they ruled.. DIMINISHED dramatically.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
DDA
This is absolutely right. Killing those millions of people centuries ago had a far more damaging effect on all those societies than WWII did, when the population was far greater, and didn’t result in the collapse of any of those countries
aniruddha biswas says
Totally agree. Though I am a patriotic Indian living in India, I still believe that the Indian government needs a kick in the balls for not voting for Israel at the UN. The greed for the Muslim vote bank transcends all political parties, including so-called Hindutva ones like the ruling BJP. Israel must refuse to supply weapons to my country till we have the sense to change our voting patterns at the UN. Ordinary Hindus like me are sick and tired of Muslim-appeasing leaders, we would happily throw them all into the sea.
Am Yisrael Chai!
crown says
“… it was 150 million Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs who were massacred by muslims in India”
So… along with the 100 million dead in the Twentieth Century attributable to the tender mercies of Marxism, that would mean we can chalk up at least a quarter billion dead to Communism & Islam in the last millennium.
Quite the achievement. So, yeah, Mr Momdani, you tell us about all the glories of a Red/Green alliance.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Note that the 150 million was just in the Indian subcontinent. The total death toll by jihadist conquerors throughout history has been estimated at 270 million, but that number undercounts the subcontinent figures like I described above. So add another 80 million to it, and it becomes 350 million. Also, if the death toll in India was undercounted, same can be assumed true for many other places – Iran, Byzantine Empire, North Africa, Central Asia. I wouldn’t be surprised if islam massacred 500 million, if one looks everywhere more closely
Communist death squads were JV teams compared to jihadists, and Nazis were JVs compared to the communists