Has India Abandoned Palestine?
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By Askiah Adam
Global Research
India has recently voted in support of Israel at the United Nations (UN) for the first time in its post-independence history. At the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on June 6 she voted with Israel to deny a Palestinian non-governmental organisation (NGO), the Shahed, an observer status.
To many this may appear innocuous. Israel has persuaded India that Shahed is a terrorist organisation and not, as it claims to be, an NGO fighting for the human rights of Palestinians.
But under threat of genocide is not survival contingent upon resistance? Why not give Shahed an observer status? How dangerous can that be?
Instead, New Delhi chose to break a long standing post-independence position, which is to be on the side of the two-state se...