Why Israel is arming India — Transcript

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1. 0:00Tall building, dusty street. Oh, looks
2. 0:02like some soldiers holding Israeli
3. 0:03rifles. We got to be over here in
4. 0:05Israel. What? Why are Indian soldiers
5. 0:08training with Israeli weapons? On May
6. 0:1121st, 2025, thousands of Indian police
7. 0:14officers bombarded a knack encampment
8. 0:16located in the heart of a ceasefire zone
9. 0:18in Naranpur. This extrajudicial killing
10. 0:21of nearly 30 people is only the most
11. 0:23recent in a string of extreme violence
12. 0:25perpetrated by the Hindu nationalist
13. 0:27government led by Narendra Modi. This
14. 0:30kind of state violence is only possible
15. 0:32thanks to the enormous amount of weapons
16. 0:34and equipment Israel sells India every
17. 0:37single year. Since the mid-200s, Israel
18. 0:40has become a principal supplier of
19. 0:42advanced surveillance and strike
20. 0:43technologies to India's security forces,
21. 0:46significantly shaping the state-backed
22. 0:48violence against the Knackalites. Israel
23. 0:50drones equipped with lowfrequency radar
24. 0:52have been deployed over Knackite held
25. 0:54forests, while biometric sensors and
26. 0:56cyber intelligence tools have enhanced
27. 0:58target identification and tracking
28. 1:00capabilities. Israeli tech has
29. 1:03underpinned state violence such as
30. 1:04operation greenhunt thereby enabling
31. 1:07Indian forces to locate and engage
32. 1:09knacks in remote areas. Human rights
33. 1:12organizations have documented that these
34. 1:14operations often end in so-called
35. 1:16encounter killings which are often
36. 1:18extrajudicial and involve leaders and
37. 1:20advasi villagers such as this very event
38. 1:23in which they captured the leader,
39. 1:25staged an encounter and executed him and
40. 1:28proceeded to burn his corpse to hide the
41. 1:30evidence.