Comments on: Israel: Mourning Mumbai

By: rahul singh

rahul singh — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:32:13 +0000

i love israel.india and israel are best friends

By: Syed Abdullah

Syed Abdullah — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:13:49 +0000

Dear Friends.
It is all very much disappointed whenever a person dies, killed without any reason.His or her childeren have to cry on the bodies of their beloved. Please do not hate anyone whether they are jews, hindues, muslim,christians.
This world need again Gandhi, Martin Luthar king, Tolstoy,Rumi to make this world again. The person who kills anyone has no religion. Please understand that now the religion is the escape goat. Muslims killing jews, jews killing muslims, hindu- muslims, all is not religion its all politics. war of resources, controls, these wars are not to make the whole world as muslim or whole world as jews. Or hindues would like to kill all muslims. This is just politics and propaganda war. Please all of us understand it. When we see a little jewish baby crying we cry . When we see a hindu father crying over the murder of his son we should cry. When we see mulsim women are crying we should cry. We are not here to impose our beleifs on others. Let everyone live his/her life as it suits. Hatred will generate more hatred as Budhha says. please, we should not be toys in the hands of politicians. We need back our Gandhi, MLK, Rumi to rebuild this world.

Hope my message will reach as a message for peace and its not new.

By: esther

esther — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:30:23 +0000

We are saddened that the Jewish families held hostage could not be saved we were hoping against hope but they were killed by the terrorists. My heart goes out to little Moshe his tears brought tears to our eyes. He will always remain in our prayers. His nanny was really brave she saved his life. The terrorists have no religion they are just demons and have lost all human feelings. They have killed one and all whether it was a Jew a Muslim a Hindu hardly mattered to them they were blood thirsty plunderers who came and killed blindly. No religion teaches violence it is how a person interprets religion and makes it suit his purpose. These terrorists have done the same thing used religion to commit dastardly acts. We pray that may such people see light and reform themselves and make this world a peaceful place to live in.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:16:42 +0000

Maya, I only hope that we(Indians) will now value the life of our citizen and much as the state of Israel does.
My family, including me were absolutely saddened at the images of Baby Moshe crying at his parents funeral. It is amazing though, that the perpertrators of this cowardly act will now roam freely in Pakistan and enjoy full state patronage. Where is the justics?

By: Carlos Fernos

Carlos Fernos — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:28:59 +0000

Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg were in India providing solace and a place of peace for all Jewish people. These terrorist animals were in India to provide death and suffering. I ask you, who are the true believers in their faith?

By: Maya Norton

Maya Norton — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:13:35 +0000

Chris, what a beautiful comment. Thank you for posting it.

I’m sorry if you think that I didn’t emphasize the scale of the tragedy fully enough for all involved and affected. For a nation of only 6 million people with a brutal history of violence against us, we take every loss personally and feel it deeply. As I had hoped to convey in this article and my previous one (linked above), Israelis are identifying closely with Indians and sending help as we are able.

Global Voices has been actively reporting on the incident from all over the world, but most particularly from India. A link to the full coverage is here (and linked above): http://globalvoicesonline.org/specialcoverage/mumbai-india-blasts-2008/.

In solidarity & friendship,

~ Maya

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:51:47 +0000

First of all I would like to offer my deepest condolences to all the Jewish victims of the Mumbai massacre. Being an Indian myself, I was particularly angry at seeing Jews being targeted in Mumbai, a cosmopolitan city. My heart weeps for the Jews and ALSO for the other 180 odd people that were massacred, including Indians and other foreign nationals. Being an Indian, I identify with the struggle of the Jewish state and its struggle against Islamic terrorism. We are also victims. So please help us to help you. Most Indians love Israel and will always stand by Israel, and your country did so when we went through the Kargil War in 1999. However, I do have a message for some of the people here. It seems like they have ‘conveniently’ ignored the fact that 180 ‘other’ people have died in India. Including many many Indians and others, including Americans, British, Chinese, e.t.c. So please do not leave them out when you are talking about his massacre as we were the victims of this as much as you were.
God Bless India and God Bless Israel.