BY Omair Anas, 360info

India-Israel dynamics place India's Middle East diplomacy under pressure from the Arab-Israeli crisis. India's consistent policy of supporting a two-state solution with East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent and viable Palestinian state remains unchanged.

Nevertheless, much has changed about how India reinterprets the meaning and the context of its Palestine policy.

After the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Indian media and right-wing public opinion had overwhelmingly supported the Israeli military response in Gaza. New-Delhi-based Arab diplomats expressed their unease over the increasingly hostile public opinion towards Palestine.

The ruling Bhartiya Janta Party’s pro-Israeli gestures are no secret to the Arab diplomats. They knew that a BJP-led government in New Delhi would start a new chapter of relations with Israel beyond the traditional “balancing act.”

The BJP and its eco-system of support see Israel as a country that always stood with India in times of crises with Pakistan.

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