India has interests in middle east so we can't straight away say no to palestine. India also supports the Palestinian cause to weaken Pakistan's position in the middle east.
and this will go well the Israelis. Whether you like it or not, Islamic Nations are not going to support India on Kashmir. We are simply wasting our time.
In my opinion, no other issue unites muslims across nations as much as the cause against Israel, so i guess we are just playing around foolishly with our foreign policy regarding Israel and palestine. Islamic nations will ditch us for sure.
We are not supporting Palestine against Israel, we are there, to cut Pakistan's argument over Kashmir through GCC. It is tough, but because India has 20 Million Muslims , GCC cannot overlook that. I remember when last time, voting happened over Palestine issue, when Israel was bombing, India remained ABSENT!
India needs to maintain an ambiguous or ambivalent (pick one) silence between the Israel and Palestine. We understand neither side well, and we understand none of the Middle East groups and tribes well. It is best not to make statements like the one in the OP. India is giving humanitarian aid to Palestine. That should be good enough.
it isnt so straightforward as it was around 1948 when israel was first formed with all the muslim nations grouped against israel
for whatever reason , whether engendered by the west or whatever, there are serious fault lines in the oic ( which btw, includes malaysia but not singapore )
look at Saudi arabia, the chief and temporal custodian of the RoP, they are in a sense siding with israel at the national level whilst there is a whole spectrum of policy positions all along the ladder from the top to the bottom of their society
also within their government departments , there are tailor fit policies to suit each department accordingly in the defense and foreign affairs sections of their government
dont take my word for it , listen to the speech by netayahu in the video
plus other sources of course
especially at the 26 min point where he explicitly talks about israel's alliances with their arab defence partners and others in the middle east !
so if they have a non-simplistic group of policies, well does india ...... ties with both israel and the muslim world can be conducted and developed concurrently .
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