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Dubai-Tel Aviv Scare: India and Israel Can't Rely on Western Double Standards
- •An Indian captain averted a mid-air catastrophe on a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight, highlighting the fragility of civil aviation in an era of asymmetric warfare.
- •The incident underscores the symbolic and operational weight of the UAE-Israel peace axis, which terror ideologues aim to disrupt.
- •The scare serves as a catalyst for India and Israel to deepen their counter-terrorism partnership, moving beyond conventional defense procurement to real-time intelligence fusion.
- •The article criticizes Western counter-terrorism statecraft for giving Pakistan a strategic pass, despite its deep-seated military-terror nexus.
- •External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar challenged the US administration's hypocrisy, emphasizing India's frustration with selective blindness towards state-sponsored terror.
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An Indian captain and an international flight crew successfully averted a mid-air catastrophe aboard a Dubai-Tel Aviv commercial flight on the eve of the third anniversary of the October 7 conflict. Israel’s defence establishment labeled the confrontation an attempted jihadist plot, highlighting the ongoing fragility of global civil aviation amid asymmetric warfare.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar criticized the West for its double standards and selective blindness toward state-sponsored terrorism. He lamented the lack of international appreciation for India's pain as a primary victim of cross-border terror and condemned global powers for reducing India's counter-terrorism actions to a mere bilateral boundary dispute.
The article states that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) must re-engage Pakistan with unyielding rigor to choke the financial lifeblood of terror networks like LeT and JeM. It calls for an end to temporary detentions and urges strict financial oversight to cut off money-laundering schemes and state intelligence patronage.
