NEW DELHI: Israel prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in an interview with the Times of India conducted a Tel Aviv last week offered cooperation with India in technological and agricultural fields and, “if India desires,” in the field of defence. “We can work together in the limits of what we consider as serving our mutual interests,” Rabin explained, He said he was very open, even eager, to improve relations with India. Replying to a pointed question on “terrorism and religious fundamentalism,” Rabin referred to the overall need 0 struggle against “Islamic fundamentalism.” The world, the Israel prime minister said, was not yet aware of the danger that Muslim fundamentalism in the Arab and Islamic world posed and sought to take the place of communism.

Article extracted from this publication >>  March 5, 1993