RealPolitik(Nations don't have friends, only permanent interests and such babble) helps only the strong. Strategists like Kissinger used this line to convince tinpot dictators to the Western Bloc. Basically the way an honest officer is introduced to corruption. It is one of the lines alongside 'everyone else is doing it', 'you have to think about your family', you deserve to be rich' that entices a person/country to be dishonest and escape what they have to do.
Realpolitik did not help India much in history. India's decisions by and large have been based on simple logic. What is the cause of Palestine issue. The simple answer is occupation and this is recognized by international law and an overwhelming majority of countries. This has got nothing to do with Palestine being muslim.
The realpolitik gurus will avoid this simple logic and run around the forest for an explanation in their lens and then arrive at this BS notion that Indian governments support Palestine because they have more muslims in the country. There is no smellier BS than this. And the saffronists, eager to clutch onto every random happening in this country as vote-bank politics grab on this biscuit.
If anything the ideological bonding is between Israel-Pakistan and Palestine-India. Palestine movement was highly progressive until it got hijacked by the Islamists after persistent weeding out of top level educated secular leadership by the Israelis and crazy Arabs with help from US.
Even if you go by the calculus of interests, India will do well by avoiding Israel. More and more the country is getting pushed back on its policies. More countries even western European ones are recognizing Palestine. So India is backing a losing side. So one wonders what sh&t the desi realplitik gurus are smoking, because they are undercutting their own logic with the argument.
Not to say India should sever all ties with Israel. But I am simply saying do what is right. Support Palestine. Maintain good ties with Israel.
If some Palestine leader say something about Kashmir, have the guts to publicly remind them how many muslims are getting killed world over by muslim leaders to maintain 'order'. The Ummah can't do anything to India.
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