Look closely at how Israel handles terror, and youāll see the mindset a nation needs to survive. Today, Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar took a knife wound at 35,000 feet, fought back, and opened the cockpit door so passengers and crew could tackle the attacker. 174 lives were saved on that DubaiāTel Aviv flight.
When they landed, Netanyahu was right there on the tarmac to shake hands with those who fought back. One passenger summed it up on camera: āWeāre a nation of lions, arenāt we?ā
Compare that to Kandahar in 1999. Crowds protesting in front of the PMās house, panicked news cycles, and India eventually folding under pressure to hand over Masood Azhar. We bled for that mistake for twenty years.
Jews have survived centuries of persecution, massacres and genocide. So have Hindus. Yet for many years, our responses to terrorism were very different.
India is finally shedding that old hesitation. We hit back across borders now, and we don't beg for peace. But it has to remain our permanent default: no talks, no concessions, only offensive defence.