With new investment pact, India moves to bind its economy to Israel https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/investment-pact-india-moves-bind-economy-israel
Azad Essa 14 September 2025 Already complicit in Israel's genocide through weapons production and political support, India now deepens its alignment with a new trade deal
And it does appear that a significant goal of this deal is to protect Adani's investments in Haifa Port, as well as an attempt to keep the India Middle East Corridor (IMEC) - an economic corridor linking India to western markets - alive.
The IMEC corridor, underwritten by the US and envisaged as a trade route to counter China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has been marred with obstacles since Israel's genocide in Gaza began.
But given the timing of the pact between India and Israel, this is also very much about politics, diplomacy and the projection of strength and trust.
For more than a decade, India has been the largest buyer of Israeli weapons, and the genocide has not altered the course of this relationship.
Moreover, over the past two years, the two countries have signed deals in water technology, cybersecurity, and agriculture - sectors in which Israel has built entire industries on the back of its occupation of Palestinians.
As of 2024, trade between India and Israel amounted to around $4bn annually.
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