UPA's West Asia policy hostage to ‘Muslim vote' :WIKI

[Vinod2070]

And to clarify to Vinod and EjazR ;

I am not arguing what the Indian Muslims think of Palestine or other issues, I am arguing what the UPA thinks the Muslims will think of their(GoI's) support to Palestine-Israel and let that thinking guide their policy.

There is a difference.

I think they don't even think that way. They just use it for vote bank politics.

 

[Tshering22]

I always knew this..

 

[EjazR]

Thanks for that Karthic,

I just mentioned GCC because they are in a way connected to the Israel-Palestine issue as well. We have to balance perceptions and relations between Iran Israel and GCC i.e. Saudi Arabia. And its not Iran-Israel or Saudi-Israel but also Iran-Saudi perceptions as well. A clear message has to be reiterated to each that while we will continue to build relations with each of these countries to their maximum possible potential, it does not mean that we want to ally with one country against any other.

On the HAMAS issue, most of the links are 2006, the Arab league led by Saudis have made a strong effort to co-opt HAMAS. Its been a tough fight because of Iran and through Iran, Syria support to HAMAS that allows it to refuse the Arab initiative. But finally in 2007 Mishal had indicated that he will accept the Arab peace plan as part of a final Arab solution if everyone was on board.
Hamas won't oppose Arab peace plan, Palestinian says | Reuters

The issue is that at present there doesn't seem to be any hope of Israel coming back on the peace plan talks anytime soon not least because of the Arab revolutions going around the world and the loss of credibility due to the leaking of the Palestinian negotiation papers by Wikileaks and AlJazeera FAQ: The Palestine Papers