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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni
said extremist Islamist hatred does
not stop at Israel's shores.
"In India or elsewhere, there are
extremist Islamic forces who don't
accept our existence or the Western
way of life:' Livni said. "It's a shame
that this kind of event must remind
part of the Western of the world about
this reality. The target is not just Israel
but the West."

Deadly Strike

The Chabad center, at 5 Hormusji St.,
is a popular destination for young
Israeli backpackers, who often make
the trip after their compulsory army
service. The Holtzbergs moved to
Mumbai in 2003 from Brooklyn, N.Y.,
to do Jewish outreach work in India.
Israel Radio quoted Indian security
officials as saying that the Israelis evi-
dently were killed at the outset of the
attacks and not during the commando
raids to free them some two days later.
Gunmen armed with automatic
rifles and grenades struck 10 locations
in Mumbai on the night of Nov. 26 in
coordinated attacks at sites frequented
by Westerners, including hotels, restau-
rants and a railway station. The terror-
ists also took hostages at the Taj Mahal
and Trident-Oberoi luxury hotels.
A little-known organization calling
itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed
responsibility for the coordinated
attacks. The group had taken responsi-
bility for only a single prior attack. Its
grievances were local, but its terrorist
tactics are part of a global pattern that
includes the most virulent strand of
Israel hatred.
The Chabad House is tucked away at
the end of an alley, suggesting that the
raid there was not happenstance.
"We have no doubt that the tar-
gets of the terrorists were Jewish
and Israeli as well as American and
British:' Livni said.

Israeli-Indian Ties
Israel and India have shared common
security interests in recent years, and
India has become a leading buyer of
Israeli arms and weapons technolo-
gies. Security teams from both nations
happened to be meeting in New Delhi
on Sept. 11,2001; they turned on the
TV and watched the attacks in the
United States, sharing assessments.
It's a natural fit between the world's
most populous democracy and one of
its smallest, said Jason Isaacson, the
American Jewish Committee's director
of international affairs.
"There's been close cooperation and
consultation between India and Israel

on counterterrorism and security;'
Isaacson told JTA on Nov. 28 after
spending 36 hours in nearly nonstop
consultations with AJC's representa-
tive in India, Priya Tandon, as well
as with senior Indian, Israel and U.S.
government officials. "This is a further
reminder that all democracies face the
threat of Islamic extremism!'
India, a vast multicultural society,
has welcomed Jews for centuries, per-
haps as far back as the destruction of
the Second Temple. Many believe that
India's first Jews were shipwrecked
refugees from the Roman expulsion in
70 C.E.
"There is no fertile ground for anti-
Semitism" in India, Isaacson said.
"It's a multiethnic society where
Jews have always been comfortable
and welcomed."
Relations were cool during the

"There is no fertile
ground for anti-
Semitism in India."

— Jason Isaacson
American Jewish Committee

Cold War, when India's then-ruling
Congress Party assiduously pursued
non-aligned status. In the wake of the
collapse of the Soviet Union at the end
of the 1980s, India expanded ties with
Israel, upgrading its Tel Aviv consulate
to an embassy and developing robust
relations with the Jewish state.
A key element to the relationship
has been close ties with U.S. Jewish
organizations in pursuit of a closer
relationship with the U.S. defense
establishment.
One component of that relationship
was the establishment of the Chabad
center in Mumbai. In a sign of U.S.
sensitivity about the relationship,
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, the director of
American Friends of Lubavitch, said
he received calls of concern this week
from Josh Bolten, the White House
chief of staff, and Joe Biden, the vice
president-elect.
The Jewish Agency for Israel said it
would financially assist the Jewish and
Israeli families of those killed in the
Mumbai attacks from the Fund for the
Victims of Terror.
The 8-year-old fund has assisted
thousands of victims of terror attacks
and their families. Money for the
fund comes from the United Jewish
Communities, Jewish federations and
Keren Hayesod.

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