Even by US President Donald Trump’s seismic standards, his recent statement of the US taking over the Gaza Strip, turning it into a Riviera or something else has shaken up the world. Even as an always volatile region is further roiled, threats fly faster than supersonic jets and the ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war sparked by the October 7 2023 terror attack by Hamas, hangs by the slenderest of threads, Kobbi Shoshani, consul general of Israel to Midwest India speaks from his Mumbai office about India-Israel ties and terrorism. 

Edited excerpts from the interview...