The Indians are only getting cosy with the Iranians because the Shia Iranians and the Sunni Pakistanis really don't like each other... especially with the lack of effort the Pakistani government puts into protecting its large Shia minority.
Indian-Israeli relations are still pretty strong:
India–Israel relations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hi, Supreme
Sorry for taking a while to get back to you. I spent some time, refreshing myself on the world trade situation to see if this had any bearing on events in the area.
Concerning the Sunni-Shi'a thing, some Muslims really like to take advantage of it, particularly Al Qaeda, because doing so is to their advantage. Those to whom it is NOT to their advantage, such as the Iranians and Syrians, pooh-pooh the differences and accuse, of course, the Jews of using their galactic influence to stir Muslim against Muslim.
Pakistan doesn't want to stir up a Sunni-Shi'a feud. They have to deal with Al Qaeda, which I mentioned in the previous paragraph. Their preferred way of accomplishing this seems to be to coax them to leave Pakistan and go back to Iran. Pakistan's leaders seem most concerned with keeping up the old anti-India feud over Kashmir -- which, unfortunately, Al Qaeda seems to be exploiting. Meanwhile, Pakistan has an old and dependable ally in China, and an equally good relationship with Saudi Arabia.
India, meanwhile, is VERY interested, it seems, in tapping into Central Asian riches in gas, oil and other commodities. Pakistan is in their way, and the only other route there is via Iran. This coincides with a Russian interest in opening up a direct route to the Indian Ocean, and to their old ally India.
Israel, meanwhile, is still linked to the US -- specifically, to the US Congress, which has generally been sympathetic to them (while the State Department has been consistently against them). The US and Israel have between them the great bulk of Jews in the world, and there is a symbiotic relationship between the two communities. This has been somewhat eroded over the years, but the Jews have had to withstand much bigger problems than that over the millennia.
Israel, of course, needs outlets for its exports; and when China was a potential threat to India, the West was not very interested in them and the Russians had nothing but old, rusting hardware, Israel looked good as a weapons supplier. Those factors are changing; and I believe Russian deals are on the increase while Israeli trade has lessened. I think there's a real danger in the future, moreover, of Israeli technology falling into Iranian hands via India, if things continue as they have. No malice is needed -- India is so corrupt, no secret is really safe there.
Meanwhile, another map:
(must wait until I upgrade my FTP client)
Oh, well. Can't do that just yet. The trade picture is this: India's main trade partner is the GCC, followed by the EU. The EU is also the biggest trade partner of Russia and as is China. Israel trades mainly with the US. If there is an obvious split in NATO, along TRADE lines, it is between Europe and the US -- which trades mostly with Canada, and Canada mostly with it, though you would never believe this, with all the Chinese products in our homes. I think Canada makes up for that by giving us our petrol fix. It beats me, what we sell to them. Outside of lawyers, bureacracy and fighter-bombers, I didn't know we actually produced anything anymore. All my friends with jobs seem to be in healthcare or in answering telephones.
I think I was doing better, reading the temperatures of the world leaders. One thing's for sure: Obama has turned America's name to Mudd, with all his switching sides and spying on our friends. If America plays any decisive role in world politics while he remains in office, it will be a decisively asinine role. God bless and keep him, far away from all of us!
