{"id":59541,"date":"2023-10-31T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/31\/india-pro-israel-narendra-modi-bjp-government"},"modified":"2023-10-31T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:00:34","slug":"india-takes-strong-pro-israel-stance-under-modi-in-a-departure-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59541","title":{"rendered":"India takes strong pro-Israel stance under Modi in a departure from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While previous governments kept dealings with Israel largely quiet, the ruling BJP has different priorities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/oct\/31\/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-latest-news-today-hamas-clashes-idf-gaza-aid-plan-failure\">Israel and Hamas at war \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just a few hours after Hamas launched its assault on Israel, India\u2019s prime minister was among the first world leaders to respond. In a strongly worded statement, Narendra Modi condemned the \u201cterrorist attacks\u201d and said India \u201cstands in solidarity with Israel at this difficult hour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian foreign minister retweeted the comment almost instantly. Another state minister from Modi\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) warned in a tweet that India \u201cmay face the situation that Israel is confronting today if we don\u2019t stand up against politically motivated radicalism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/31\/india-pro-israel-narendra-modi-bjp-government\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While previous governments kept dealings with Israel largely quiet, the ruling BJP has different prioritiesIsrael and Hamas at war \u2013 live updatesJust a few hours after Hamas launched its assault on Israel, India\u2019s prime minister was among the first wor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1247,1644,62,1005,3006,212,433,399,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benjamin-netanyahu","category-gaza","category-india","category-israel","category-israel-hamas-war","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-narendra-modi","category-palestinian-territories","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59542,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59541\/revisions\/59542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}