PYQ Vault · Paper 2 · Recent Developments in Foreign Policy — Part 2
Has the recent Indo-Israeli relationships given a new dynamics to India’s stand on Palestinian statehood?
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
€3) 1950 recognition / 1992 full ties — Palestine long read through the anti-colonial prism — Israel closeness changes the voicing, not the position §%3 de-hyphenation as the pivot — two independent tracks, one unchanged principle — the new dynamics is one of forum
Body flow
principle intact (PLO 1974 — State of Palestine 1988 — pre-1967 borders + East Jerusalem) — instruments of continued support (USS$30m aid since 1995; Modi 2018 Ramallah) — multilateral voice still alive (Sept 2025 New York Declaration vote) — the shift: de- hyphenation = build with Israel, speak for Palestine elsewhere — Feb 2026 joint statement / Special Strategic Partnership drops the two-state formula — Res 2803 conditions statehood — Pant (adaptation) + Gupta (domestic anchor)
Counter-view
Haidar: the calibration reads as ambiguity, not balance — Arab normalisation has lowered the cost of pragmatism — support becomes more symbolic than substantive
Conclusion routes
PRI new dynamics in emphasis and instrument, not in principle statehood survives in India’s votes but thins in its bilateral texts — the gap is the answer
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
