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Diplomatic ties between Israel and India have warmed considerably since the election of Narendra Modi in April.

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Following a power change in India and improvement of its relations with Israel, the government of Narendra Modi is considering changing its UN voting policy regarding the Palestinian issue.

According to the popular newspaper The Hindu, the Indian government, which for many years has automatically voted pro-Palestinian, is weighing changing its policy to abstaining on votes regarding the Middle East peace process, which “could amount to a tectonic shift in the country’s foreign policy,” according to The Hindu.

The Indian paper quoted two Indian government officials who confirmed that a policy change is being explored.

“Like other foreign policy issues, the Modi government is looking at India’s voting record at the United Nations on the Palestinian issue,” a government source told The Hindu. The change only needs an administrative nod, the second source said.

India is one of most prominent members among nonaligned nations that have traditionally supported the Palestinians at the United Nations for decades.

Since establishing diplomatic relations in 1992, Israel and India have had a close strategic relationship, especially in the fields of security, intelligence and the war on terror. India is one of the main clients of Israel’s defense industries.

Still, the Indians carefully separated their close bilateral relations with Israel and its UN policy on the Palestinian issue, where it maintained an anti-Israel line.

Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP was elected to power in April, and he was appointed prime minister. Modi is considered somewhat exceptional in Indian politics because of his pro-Israel positions, which he does not hesitate to express publicly.

Modi, who visited Israel in 2006, is deemed controversial because of his Hindu nationalist and anti-Muslim stances. When he was in the opposition, the United States refused to give him of visa because of these oppositions.

Indian relations with Israel have warmed considerably since Modi rose to power. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first world leaders to call Modi to congratulate him on his victory. Modi and Netanyahu held publicized meetings during the UN General Assembly in New York. In addition, the Delhi government carried out deals that had been frozen for years to acquire Israeli weapons.

A few days ago, the Indian prime minister tweeted on his Twitter account Hanukkah greetings in Hebrew and English to Jews in Israel and around the world. Netanyahu tweeted back thanks in Hindi.

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  1. India has never been an independent country. For a couple of hundred years they were colonized and ruled by the British. British even used the Indian soldiers in the 2nd world war and fought against the Germans like slavish puppets.

    Now again are selling themselves to another boss in order to prove their servitude to the western world… I wonder when will they really plan to be an independent country!!!….

  2. @AI ~ As a historical side note, it was during the first World War that the British occupiers used Indian soldiers against the Germans and Ottomans. About 82,000 Indians died to save the British Empire. Countless more were wounded and crippled.

    In 1931 the British used Indian labor to build the “India Gate” in Delhi (not to be confused with the “Gateway of India” in Mumbai, built in 1924). This is a monument to commemorate the Indians who died fighting England’s wars.

    Most Indians sat out World War Two, although 43,000 formed the “Indian National Army,” which was allied with Imperial Japan. Initially composed of Indian prisoners of war captured by Japan in the Malayan campaign and at Singapore, it later drew volunteers from Indian expatriate population in Malaya and Burma. The “Rani of Jhansi Regiment” consisted of 1,000 Indian women, who received full combat training from the Japanese, who used the women against the British in Southeast Asia. The regiment was named after an Indian woman who was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and became a symbol of resistance to British rule.

    Another 2,600 Indians formed the “Free Indian Legion” in Nazi Germany. This was a German army unit composed of Indian prisoners of war and expatriates in Europe who rallied to the National Socialist cause. Unlike the “Indian National Army,” they saw no combat action, although they performed support functions for the Germans.

    Both these groups hoped for the Axis to defeat the Allies, so that India could gain independence from the British Empire.

    Contrary to the Indians noted above, M.K. Gandhi sided with the British against Nazi Germany for political reasons. If Gandhi had spoken in favor of the Germans, the British would have increased their stranglehold on India.

    Today India’s government is as corrupt as any other, And it adores Israel.

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  3. India and Israel both want the disarming of Pakistan and both also have political leadership that hates Muslims. Since the Mumbai incident a few years ago, things have been flying faster between the two nations.

  4. All of the abovementioned comments were spot on.

    @sotomayor111 … Your comments are disturbingly true. Gandhi did waste his life (even though the British now claim that he was an MI agent)!

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