Of course, the terror attacks in India had a special impact on Israelis. Not only are they struggeled by a history of terror attacks on their own soil, but the terrorists even in India selected Americans, Britains and … Israelis. One of the main targets of the operation had been a Jewish center in Mumbai. This was clearly not targeted randomly,but because it was Jewish. Overall, 8 Jews got killed, some of them Israelis. The bodies of all of them will get buried in Israel.
In Israel, the attack is topic nomber 1 till today, covering especially the story of a 2-year old baby which was rescued by an employee after its parents got killed.
Israelis know how terror feels, everybody knows people affected by it. Remember: Only 7million people are living here, and attacks had been more frequent during the intifadas and before the construction of the security fence.
Nevertheless, I have to point out that such an attack would never be possible here. I will write about security conditions in the future, but merely the fact that soldiers are present everywhere and a lot of private persons where big guns stops every terrorist moments after an attack begins. This happened in every single incident this year and thanks to it only one civilian was killed as far as I know this year (not including rocket attacks in the north and south).
Definitly, it was a very special feeling to see how strong my environment here, consisting mainly of Israelis, and Americans (a lot of them Jews either) was affected and felt with people in India!
