Looking West, as far as Israel

The Indian minister for external affairs, S.M. Krishna, is visiting Israel starting January 9. The good thing is that such visits these days occasion no public teeth-gnashing by leaders of political parties that promote themselves as protectors of Indian Muslims and their interests. In an earlier time, any public interaction with Israel would have elicited howls of protest — the easy way of garnering political support on the cheap by conflating the issue of Palestinian rights and Arab grievances against Israel with the amour-propre of Indian Muslims.

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