{"id":31312,"date":"2018-10-27T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31312"},"modified":"2018-10-27T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:35:13","slug":"ramallah-recall-on-indias-palestine-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ramallah-recall-on-indias-palestine-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramallah recall: On India\u2019s Palestine policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/ramallah-recall\/article22745311.ece\"><b>Ramallah recall: On India\u2019s Palestine policy<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prime Minister Modi\u2019s visit to Palestine signals India\u2019s strategy to grow ties with Israel and Palestine separately<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>India-Israel ties:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent years, India has built strong ties with Israel<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, Mr. Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israel is also a source of defence equipment and agricultural technology in India<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>India-Palestine ties<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has been a champion of the Palestinian people\u2019s national aspirations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, India had voted along with a vast majority of member-states at the UN General Assembly against U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, in Ramallah, the Palestinian National Authority\u2019s administrative headquarters, Prime Minister Modi reiterated India\u2019s support for the Palestinian cause, saying it \u201chopes that Palestine soon becomes a sovereign and independent country in a peaceful atmosphere\u201d. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both sides also signed a number of agreements for India-funded projects in the West Bank.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traditionally, India has supported the creation of an independent Palestine within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Why is India not completely supporting Israel?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israel has been facing political isolation internationally over its occupation of the Palestinian territories.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also does not have diplomatic ties with most countries in West Asia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India, which has vital interests in the Gulf and enjoys good ties with the region\u2019s Muslim countries, cannot afford to be seen to be politically closer to Israel at the expense of ties with Palestinians. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s policy objective is clear and rooted in political realism. It wants to maintain the balance in its relationship with both Palestine and Israel, and strengthen bilateral ties with each separately.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramallah recall: On India\u2019s Palestine policy Context: Prime Minister Modi\u2019s visit to Palestine signals India\u2019s strategy to grow ties with Israel and Palestine separately India-Israel ties: In recent years, India has built strong ties with Israel In 2017, Mr. Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel Israel is also a source of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ramallah-recall-on-indias-palestine-policy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ramallah recall: On India\u2019s Palestine policy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704796807},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}