‘It is a trilateral partnership of India, U.S. and Israel’
WASHINGTON: JANUARY 02, 2017 23:38 IST
Jason Isaacson, Director of International Affairs at the American Jewish Committee
The optics of the U.S.-Israel relations will change for the better under the incoming Donald Trump administration and this will have a positive impact on India’s relations with both, said a senior functionary of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), an influential advocacy group.
Jason Isaacson, AJC’s Director of International Affairs,
who recently returned from Israel, said he expected Indian and Israeli Prime Ministers to exchange visits in 2017.
Describing President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to Israel last year as India’s “coming out of the closet” on ties with Israel, Mr. Isaacson said: “
There is less hesitation in India on embracing Israel. It started before Mr. (Narendra) Modi, and it is a bipartisan position in India, but it is more public under
Mr. Modi that Israel is a natural ally of India and there are mutual benefits.”
Talking to
The Hindu at the 110-year old organisation’s headquarters in Washington, Mr. Isaacson,
who is an advocate of increasing cooperation between Indian and Jewish diasporas across the world, described the ties among India, Israel and the U.S. as a trilateral relationship. “We will work together, to demonstrate the benefits of what is really a trilateral relationship, between India, Israel, and the U.S.,” he said, about AJC’s attempts to coordinate with the Indian Americans. The AJC had pulled its weight in support of the India-U.S. civil nuclear deal.
Political voice
A regular visitor to India, Mr. Isaacson said
Indian Americans and Jewish Americans “could do a lot more together”. Asked about the ambition of several Indian-American initiatives that try with limited success to emulate the Jewish model of intervention in American politics, Mr. Isaacson said:
“The way you can be effective in this society is — gather people together, make an agenda, raise funds, hire staff. If you are going to have a community that has a political voice, it has to be treated as a business. America is welcoming to that kind of political activity. But you will have to take that job seriously.”
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No disrespect intended. Just stating that he became a non Muslim. Like most of the cultural stalwarts born into Muslim households then (and today).
