Mumbai, April 28, 2025 (ANI): While speaking on the Pahalgam Terror attack, Consul General of Israel to Midwest India, Mumbai, Kobbi Shoshani said that there is a need to “fight in a very determined way” against terrorism. He said, “The bond between India and Israel is unbreakable...It is a bond between people, governments, leaders. What we saw a few days ago in Kashmir is unacceptable...The photos that I saw were heartbreaking...We have to fight in a very determined way against terrorism...If they do something, they (terrorists) will have to pay for it...” He further said, “Pakistan needs to deal with the terrorist activities that they have made in Kashmir...India is playing a very smart role in diplomacy...The terrorists don't want us to live normally...”
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00:00First of all, the bond between India and Israel is unbreakable.
00:04And there is a lot of reason for that.
00:06The history, the tradition, the family importance.
00:10Definitely the support that we got from India for many, many years.
00:14And I think that we gave also our support as well.
00:17It's a bond between people.
00:18It's a bond between government.
00:20And it's between leaders as well.
00:24Then first of all, but above all, what we saw a few days ago in Kashmir,
00:30it's unacceptable.
00:32It's something that we cannot stand aside as a human being, as friends, as brothers of India.
00:39And the photos that I've seen were heartbreaking.
00:43And I think that it was a very, very difficult event to watch.
00:46Actually, Israel is a country who can understand India really better
00:51because you also face the attack like this.
00:54You are also facing somewhere the problem of terrorism.
00:57And we are also victim of terrorism.
01:01So how do you look into this, this terrorism?
01:04I have to tell you, you know, India was born in 1947,
01:07but the roots are many, many years before.
01:10And Israel was born nine months after raids, by the way, from the same mother, England.
01:14And since our first day, like you have the partition plan,
01:20and afterwards, you know, this war of independence, we have the same thing.
01:24And terrorists didn't stop to target Israel and India since 1947, in your case,
01:32in our case even a little bit before, and afterwards, until today.
01:36There is no 100% success.
01:39We have to remember that.
01:40But we have to fight in a very determined way to fight against terrorism,
01:45because otherwise it will jump up and up and up.
01:48And we have to put it in a certain level.
01:50I'm sorry to say something which people don't like to hear.
01:53There is no 100%.
01:54I mean, terrorists will continue to succeed once in a while.
01:58But they have to know that if they do something,
02:01they're going to pay them personally and their leaders the payment and the punishment.
02:08That's a very clear message.
02:10But there are some Pakistani leaders, like Foreign Minister of Pakistan,
02:14he said that if India will not share water with us,
02:18then the river of the blood will flow from India.
02:22This is very ridiculous.
02:24It's very shocking for us this time.
02:27I think that what's happened, first of all,
02:31I think that Pakistan needs to deal with the terror activities that they made in Kashmir
02:36and not dealing with the reaction of their reaction.
02:38I think that's my advice to the Pakistani government.
02:41I think that's the only thing that I can say.
02:43I think that India is playing in a very, very smart way into diplomacy
02:48and into relations with the people that are actually sending troops into their places.
02:55I mean, to make such event or massacre,
03:02I cannot even define it in a different way,
03:04it's something unacceptable in my opinion.
03:06You are the person who are living at India, who are living at our Mumbai, Hampton, Mumbai.
03:12How do you feel here?
03:13How, as you came from Israel, are you feeling safe here?
03:18Or is there something that, you know, I can't believe that there are still attacks?
03:23First of all, I'm Israeli.
03:26Then for me, I think that it's very, very safe.
03:29And I know that even in Israel it's very, very safe.
03:31And we know how to live along with.
03:34But I feel very, very safe.
03:35You touch my heart because I feel Mumbaker this way or another.
03:39I love India very much.
03:41I feel safe.
03:42And I told you what was my first reaction when I've heard after this massacre.
03:45I said, my time is to go right now as a tourist to Kashmir.
03:49That was the reaction.
03:51And I think this should be the reaction because the terrorists don't want us to live normally.
03:55And the only answer is to go and to be a tourist in Kashmir.
03:59That was my first reaction.
04:01But security-wise, and I know even the government didn't allow me to go there.
04:05But if you ask me, I should be there.