With Modi’s visit to Palestine, Israel and Palestine have been delinked for bilateral engagement
It is just a half day trip, with a lunch stop. But, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Palestine on February 10, during his upcoming three-nation tour, is loaded with significance, symbolism and substance. Modi will be the first ever prime minister of India to visit Palestine. It also marks the first standalone visit by a dignitary to Palestine, thus marking the final step in the dehyphenation of Israel and Palestine. Modi’s highly publicised visit to Israel last year marked the first step in this separation. Pranab Mukherjee, who visited Palestine in 2015, had done the standard Israel-Palestine circuit.
The message is clear, both countries are of immense importance to India and have been delinked for bilateral engagement. “This delinking of the bilateral aspects of relations is separate from India’s position on the Palestine-Israel approach,” said former ambassador of India to Israel Arun Singh. He said that the Palestine visit should not be looked as a counter balancing of India’s intensifying engagement with Israel in recent times, but as an approach that makes bilateral ties with each country independent of the other.
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