in bjp's you know policy towards israel and palestine, i mean every prime minister right from jawaharlal nehruted the palestinian cause. india was the first non-arab country to recognize the palestine liberation organization in 1970 and has ever since advocated two-state solution, but when the bjp came to power, there was a shift in alignment with india expressing strong support for israel and abstaining from voting for seisfire in gaza. analis say india being the largest buyer of israeli weapons and their growing partnership reflects that shift in alignment. observers say israelis are using islamophobic propaganda to justify their bloodshed in the besieged ghaza strip, calling it crackdown on terrorism. it is, however deliberate military onslot on innocent palestinian women and children, action which is... prohibited by international law and rules of engagement. india condemned the october 7 attack by hamas resistance movement, expressing solidarity with israel. new delhi is also barring any gathering in solidarity with gaza. in recent weeks, many activists and students have been detained whi

in bjp's you know policy towards israel and palestine, i mean every prime minister right from jawaharlal nehru, even vajpayi, everybody supported palestine cause, they said, you know, you can't allow the invador to benefit out of his invasion, that's what. has done to palestine. before the emergence of the ruling bjp in india, all the political parties and successive governments have always supported the palestinian cause. india was the first non-arab country to recognize the palestine liberation organization in 1970 and has ever since advocated two-state solution. but when the bjp came to power, there was a shift in alignment with india expressing strong support for israel and abstaining. from voting for sease fire in gaza. analysts say india being the largest buyer of israeli weapons and their growing partnership reflects that shift in alignment. observers say israelis are using islamophobic propaganda to justify their bloodshed in the besieged gaza strip, calling it crackdown on terrorism. it is however deliberate military onslot on innocent palestinian women and children, action which is p

the rain of under the prime ministership of somebody like rajiv gandhi like indira gandhi like jawaharlal nehru would never have come out so openly for israel and even in the even till the time of atal bihari vajpay prime minister atal bihari bajpayi india would have been very cautious in making their stand and not just to openly come out the way it has in this, but lot has to do with as i said the general elections going to take place next year and they need to polarize their votes and somewhere they have. stood that you know their world image, their their within the country image all works a lot better if they they come out in you know as a far right party than as stowing the middle line and that is a stance that the government has taken personally do not approve of it but then who cares actually you know this is a minister who has not been present any press, has not held a press conference in years, so they don't really care, they have their own media and their own pr agencies which are managing their imaging, you know the image in in the public, and somewhere somebody decided that it is, it

reign of under the prime ministership of somebody like rajiv gandhi, like indira gandhi, like jawaharlal nehru would never have come out so openly for. israel and even in the even till the time of atal bihari vajpayi prime minister atal bihari bajpayi india would have been very cautious in making their stand and not. just openly come out the way it has in this, but lot has to do with as i said the general elections going to take place next year and they need to polarize their votes and somewhere they have understood that you know their world image, their their within the country image all works a lot better if they they come out in you know as a far right party then as a as stowing the... middle line and that is a stance that the government has taken, personally i do not approve of it, but then who cares actually, you know, the this is a prime minister who has not been present any press, has not held a press conference in years, so they don't really care, they have their own media and their own pr agencies which are managing their imaging, you know, their image in. in the public and somewhere