Why has India’s Narendra Modi strengthened ties with Israel? | UpFront

India has traditionally been a supporter of Palestinian rights, so it was a surprise when, amid Israel’s deadly air strikes, India abstained from a vote on the United Nations resolution calling for a ceasefire.

Early in his premiership, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi established warm relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and has been a strong ally in what appears to be a repositioning of India’s traditional stance.

What is behind this shift? Why is Modi building such strong ties with Netanyahu?

On UpFront this week, Professor Nitasha Kaul of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster talks with Marc Lamont Hill about the politics behind India’s new ties with Israel.


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[alisterjohn]

Now Qatar like autocracy will teach India like country Democracy 🤣

[YS]

Fun fact: India has sent more humanitarian aid and supplies to Gaza than Qatar.

[MrBenjaminCole]

Israel and India together. Incredible strength.

[avinashraikwar]

Is it is same Nastasha kaul the mouthpiece of Pakistani ISI 🙄

[DARKSIDE-sspw]

Not our problem Ukraine nor does palastine

[tanwar.harveer]

Minority? 😂
And their leader threating Telangana police

[santhoshkumar-fuzx]

India support Palestinian but what they did... They supported Kashmir to Pakistan. They behaved like typical Muslim by showing love to another Muslim country... Now a Hindu nationalist taking side which is good for their mother land

[Satvik_]

Autocracies such as Qatar and their mouthpiece such as AJ wants to teach human rights to democracies 😂😂

[SatishKushwaha-tcji]

Nitasha kaul looks evil nun. Foundation laga rakha hai😂😂😂😂

[abhilashkumar]

Wait Modi is coming back again in 2024...Al Jazeera should cry😂😂😂

[RationalismIsFuture]

What india get after 70 year of secularism and democracy??

[arijitsamanta]

Indians are not fool they know the reality 🙂

[Mind_Unclouded]

Yet another biased reporting by Al Jazeera without delving into other side of the story. Not that I was expecting anything better from them. 😂

[SatishKushwaha-tcji]

Maturity comes when u realise there is nothing like Islamophobia as islam is phobia itself 😢😂

[Harhar]

India will always support Israel because they understand the threat of radical Islam as well as Israelis . Mughals who were Muslim, invaded India and killed over 4 million Hindus, and 800 thousand Sikhs and forced them to convert. And more recently with 26/11 Mumbai attack which was very similar to what happened in October 7 . Indian government did not become far right overnight, they became far right because if they do not their existence will be in jeapordy this is why india and Israel understand each other so well. Fear of radical Islam is not called islamaphobia it’s called having common sense .

[ramesh]

Why this news channnel always against india....India maintain relationship with isarel for their self interest as other nation do

[pasriv]

A Kashmiri Pandit not telling that there has been ethnic clensing of Pandits from Kashmir by the same jehadi people of Rivwr to sea type

[chrislogan]

Why not? What has the Muslim world done for us?

[truthislogical]

The relationship with Israel and India is mutual while the relationship between India and Palestine is one sided Palestine has always supported Pakistan in the name of muslim ummah

[Soothsayer]

Boy!!! I am glad Mr. Modi has realigned India. India's first PM, Nehru had made a lot of mistakes, good to see them corrected now.