Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said a country needed to develop economic, military and political power to emerge…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo: AFP)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said a country needed to develop economic, military and political power to emerge as strong in the comity of nations even as he called India one of the greatest powers on earth.
“The weak don’t survive, the strong survive…you make alliance with the strong,” he said delivering the inaugural address at the 3rd edition of the annual ‘Raisina Dialogue’, organised by the Ministry of External Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj were among nearly 500 national and global personalities who attended the event.
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He said to defend a nation, one needed a strong military which in turn required a lot of money. The money, he said, would come from a strong economy. There have been societies which had highly educated people but did not achieve economic power and, therefore, they failed, the Israeli leader said, referring to the Soviet Union.
Strongly favouring a robust relationship between India and Israel, Netanyahu stressed that alliance between democracies was important.
He appreciated the efforts being made by the Modi government to cut bureaucratic red tape and improve ease of doing business.
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