Public sentiment is strongly skeptical regarding the effectiveness of the Gaza Peace Agreement and India's involvement, with many expressing frustration over the perceived insincerity of leaders like Trump and Netanyahu. Commenters highlight the ongoing humanitarian crises faced by Palestinians and the overall ineffectiveness of global efforts, viewing them as political theatre rather than genuine attempts at peace.

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&gt;US-backed Gaza peace plan, tied to the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), could reshape regional dynamics by boosting economic ties, infrastructure, and political cooperation from India to Europe. 
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GeoIndModBot

These transnational plans like IMEC, One Sun One Grid etc are ideas that look fabulous on paper but are these doable when you think of it practically? Without UAE,Saudis,Jordanians agreeing to include Israel in the mix this will fail. During next Israel Gaza conflict these countries will close their borders and we wont be able to send stuff to Haifa port.

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Submission Statement: 

US-backed Gaza peace plan, tied to the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), could reshape regional dynamics by boosting economic ties, infrastructure, and political cooperation from India to Europe. 

IMEC, announced at the 2023 G-20 summit, rests on three pillars—transportation, energy, and digital connectivity—and promises billions in investments, especially benefiting India and Gulf countries. 

With support from the US, EU, India, and Gulf nations, the corridor could create jobs, enhance supply chains, and offer a strategic counter to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. It also aims to promote regional stability and peace, particularly through broader backing for a two-state solution in Gaza.

FuhrerIsCringe

Beyond economic reasons, it also gives a middle ground to India to repair Modi-Trump relations. If one of the reasons for fracture is indeed Nobel Prize, Modi can endorse Donald Trump for peace prize for bringing "peace to the middle east". Trump gets his endorsement and GoI can avoid hyphenation of India and Pakistan and stay on the bilateral messaging.

nishitd

"bibi, we are losing support everywhere around the world because of our genocide"

Bibi - "damn, I guess it's time to activate the last resort. Deploy the godi bait. "

giratina143

Yes, the Indian Cavalry liberated Haifa. Yes, this is a bait for Godi gang

unknown_guest17

Was Haifa even Jewish during WW1. Afaik it was majorly of Muslims and Christians

safe-account71

When Haifa was liberated, a majority of the population was Muslim and Christian.

Blackadder_101

Battle of Haifa was one of the last big battles involving cavalry charges, to say it was an one sided victory would be an understatement the Indian and British soldiers had like 400 soldiers while ottomans and Germans had more than 1500, the British army suffered only 8 dead and 34 wounded while ottomans had 1,000+ killed or wounded and many more captured. People who don't know about this battle should really check it out

Accurate_Dance9885

Support is going away. Quick.... Activate the Indian right wing who get emotional at every simple mention.

bluegoldredsilver5

British troops mostly consisted of Indian soldiers

vamosRafa22GS

These murders know where they can get support.
Like attracts like

puddi_tat

Honeypots should be dropping into Delhi now

desimi

-bonkster

Correction: These were soldiers recruited from present-day India and Pakistan. 

Here is an excerpt from a book that I [posted earlier](https://np.reddit.com/r/GeopoliticsIndia/comments/1ku8jl9/indian_soldiers_in_the_great_war/) on another sub:

Andrew T. Jarboe, *Indian Soldiers in World War I: Race and Representation in an Imperial War* (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger, 2025), 4-11.

&gt;Fortune smiled brighter on Indian Army soldiers in the Middle East in the war’s final two years, when the Indian Army became a formidable army of conquest. Reorganized, reequipped, and under new leadership, it punched its way through the Turkish lines and captured Baghdad in March 1917. An empire force under the command of the hard-fighting Edmund Allenby set out from Egypt to commence the invasion of Palestine. In November, his soldiers took Gaza. In December, empire soldiers captured Jerusalem, a victory heralded by one Indian newspaper as “the greatest event in the history of the world.” The Indian Expeditionary Force D (IEFD) mopped up remaining Turkish forces in what is now northern Iraq.

&gt;Meanwhile, when the Allied Supreme War Council convened at the start of 1918, it tasked the Indian Army with knocking Turkey out of the war before the close of the year. Command set its sights on Aleppo in Syria, a distance of some three hundred miles from the empire force in Palestine. Indian soldiers fought that summer for control of the Jordan Valley. In September, they broke through Turkish defenses at Megiddo. Indian cavalry soldiers, who had spent more time in France in the trenches than in the saddle, now put their mounts to good effect and exploited the breach. Allenby’s pursuit led to the capture of Damascus, Beirut, and Aleppo in rapid succession. The Turks agreed to an armistice on October 30, 1918.

telephonecompany

Why they are trying to drag us with their hellhole?

Responsible_Maniac

Modi thinks that blowing smoke up Trump's ass will help him with tariff negotiations.  And he's right.

AdmitThatYouPrune

Net&amp;yahoo will never live with this. It will be ya ya ya and the Zionists will not follow any cease fire. More provocation , insults, apartheid and murder until some Palestinians snap and Israel goes back to slaughtering women and children with UD weapons and money.

Excellent_Mud_172

60528

Jesus Christ,from Pakistan to India,all
These world leaders will do anything to suck up to trump

Sitar21

Imagine the guy that says he hates people and wants his supporters to fight like hell is the same guy who can secure peace between nations.

NoWar67

And it still leaves enough loophole room for Bibi and his pet Donald to slime through to start the whole mess up again at any point.  Not to mention the expectation that Hamas will dissolve and that it will be OK and suit the needs of a traumatized Palestinian people.  Bibi still thinks the whole region is his.  I don't see him rolling over this easy.  I also don't see the settler land theft creep stopping any time soon.  They are just trying to avoid any globally accepted, fixed territory two state solution.  The only logical solution.

Justthisguy_yaknow

EmployAltruistic647

Shame the 20-piece jigsaw puzzle is missing a few pieces—including the actual IMAGE!.

ColdWarRedux2

Alot of "Ceasefire Now!" folks sure seem anti-ceasefire when its Trumps idea.

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new_reditor

This is not new, the idea to bring the Gaza to financial and economic stability and thus creating a sustainable peaceful area has been around for decades and many, if not the majority of Israel supported And worked towards it. 
  
When Israel left Gaza in 2005 they left infrastructure and factories standing after the IDF cleared out all the Jewish citizens that were living there.  Those infrastructures were promptly destroyed because... well the Jews built them.
  
The world agreed with this initiative and but instead of building Gaza on and making it a premier vacation Resort, Hamas used the billions of aid dollars to  down and made it a terrorist Haven

Fed_Austere

Hudaibiyah was a victory. This is s victory. They couldn't annex gaza, they couldn't destroy the armed resistance, hell they couldn't annex even WB.

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But it’s always been like this. India never really had any friends. Maybe the Soviet union a little, but we were more of a customer than a friend /ally

The US till the 2000s always materially picked pakistan over india, even donating cutting edge aircraft and tanks in conflict. China if anything has improved in the last 20 years, and further in the Trump era. Nepal switches every 5 years. Sri lanka had an entire LTTE movement against Tamil migrants that made our relationship with them terrible. 

The Soviet union saw us as an undecided state, not fully on their side, and was happy to arm us but stand back when we were being sanctioned in the 1971 war by the UN

India has always been diplomatically irrelevant. Now even though the economy is large, we are not as interconnected to others as other economies. So trade/investment is still quite small with some exceptions of course

Cheap-Boot2115

That's not true.. they are friends with the taliban now..

CyroSwitchBlade

Let's go through each point one by one. 

&gt; India is playing nice with China but cannot trust it. India is no longer US' friend and Trump has ensured that by allowing Pakistani Prime Minister a special mention during Gaza.

 A transactional former US President issuing a cosmetic thank-you is not the geopolitical equivalent of sinking a battleship.

&gt; Russia is a friend but increasingly close to China, and weakening more geopolitically with the war on Ukraine and economically.

You state the blindingly obvious—India cannot trust China and Russia is weakening—as if it's some profound insight. This has been the baseline of Indian foreign policy for decades: strategic autonomy.

&gt; India is surrounded by neighbors who all hate it

They don't "hate" India; they practice diplomatic pushback against a regional hegemon—a phenomenon that happens everywhere on the planet.

&gt; And at least for now, Pakistan has won this round with US support (and China).

And this, my friend, is where your entire argument falls apart. 

Concluding that a structurally weak, IMF-dependent Pakistan has "won" against a surging G20 economy is, to put it bluntly, an intellectually bankrupt observation.

hodgkinthepirate

Sovereign country has self respect, This is not a peace 2025, it is a Trump appreciation 2025, only the vassals of  usa attends this.
There are only 4 countries which are Sovereign other than usa
India
China
Russia
Israel 
None of their leaders attend this, netanyahu was invisible, 
Even macron felt embarrassed to attend this trump appreciation 2025, he was a low key entire time because it was that embarrassing, and shehbaz shariff that clown was Licking trump feet naked, even meloni laughed at it, if any Sovereign country have a little bit of self respect it will not attend this ever.

Infamous-Physics7051

They have strong relationships with many countries, but they will generally improve after Modi leaves office.

Jumpy_Childhood7548

A central point of your argument seems to be that any Pakistani success in foreign policy is a bad thing for India. That seems like a bad standard, no? 

hoi4kaiserreichfanbo

All of the specific countries you named are majority Muslim countries, so had a closer interest in the issue. I don't think India (with a significant minority but not in the ruling party) not being there was a snub. 

The US and India have a very close relationship. It has been strained by the capriciousness of Trump and the moral questions around Modi, but I think in the end the economic ties will overcome.

HappyChandler

Pakistan has won absolutely nothing.  They're begging on every platform. They are basically  dogs in chain for USA or China depending on whoever feeds Pakistan . 

Nepal nor Sri Lanka don't really matter because they can't and don't really do anything to cause concern.

Remrem6789

What sensible foreign policy? Helping Russia in their war? They picked a side.

EdliA

aviavy

In Geo-politics you have the stand you take in the public eye. Then there is the more subtle positioning you take with friends who will understand (France in India's case here). Then there is the stand you take with the adversary behind six closed doors where both sides show some but not all their cards and say ok here's the deal if...then this...but if...then this etc. Our EAM has walked the thin edge with great tact. It is not for us to fall for Western bullying or threatening of the calamities that might befall us if we don't toe the line {sanctions, exports, CATSA}. You don't win with bullies by giving in to them whether the bully is USA or China or Russia.

An identical situation from recent history -- In December 1979 USSR put enormous pressure on us to vote in their favour at the UN over their dastardly invasion of Afghanistan. We had an even more thin line to walk then. The US threatened us with calamitous sanctions if we voted for USSR. We abstained with reasoning that kept both sides satisfied. That is what geo-politics is - always your own interests first. We don't know what back channel discussions are going on between Russia &amp; USA, between USA and India/China as neutral arbiters and Russia. So what we read in the media is a tip of the iceberg. For example in February 1980, two months after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, USA accepted that a neutral India served its interests better to keep one more channel of communication open to Brezhnev. In private Mrs. Indira Gandhi expressed utter horror to Andrei Gromyko {Soviet Foreign Minister} of the atrocities the Soviets were committing in Afghanistan {they had gunned down school girls protesting the invasion} and that this would affect India's stand with them in private. So we as ordinary consumers of the press really don't know what happens behind the scenes.

Just because the West is putting pressure on us is no reason to line up with them. Sometimes we line up {Iran} sometimes we don't {Ukraine}. With Russia &amp; earlier USSR what is also at stake is a 69-year old relationship of unbroken trust - **trust is a rare gem in geo-politics**. It is not to be thrown away just like that.

Even China is not always our enemy though on most counts it is. There are issues, like climate change, where we will find ourselves on the same side, matters such as Hong Kong where we will stay neutral and others well known where we will oppose then with vigor.

CrimeMasterGogoChan

There is Japan, Russia, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Serbia, France, and the US would likely have to take India's side over Pakistan's if they inch closer to China.

People have not forgotten that Pakistan sheltered OBL and continuously armed the Taliban on the War on Terror. 

Edit: I would not say Nepal hates it. Bangladesh is irrelevant and so is Sri Lanka.

fuggitdude22

India has always followed a non alignment policy, that’s why we never really had friends. We literally buy crude from Russia, refine it, and sell it to Ukraine. We were the first non Muslim, non Arab country to recognize Palestine, despite being close to Israel. It’s much better that way to be fair, being an ally to any country only brings unnecessary drama.

Grand-Text8362

First, generally India is way too big for any country to disengage with India over Pakistan! Second, by now both the countries should realize often powers pit the two against each other for their own interests. For example, US offering Pakistan F16s to “threaten” India over its relationship with Russia and Pakistan despite knowing that they won’t get anything flexing the news!

Existing-Front-1066

I think the issue with India is that their foreign policy is quite immature.

In the eyes of the government as well as the political public a country can either be a friend to India or an enemy and nothing much in between. Quite the fall from the India that was party to the creation of the Non-Aligned movement.

India is surrounded by enemies because India thinks they are all enemies. Yes It’s neighbors are adversaries but they are not countries “full of demon and evil people” that a lot of people in India like to portray China and Pakistan for example.

Besides, what is even the end goal of having Friends and Enemies? Is It preparing to pick a side for world war3?

India will always have friends, as long as they are open enough and pragmatic enough to embrace multilateralism.

OnitsukaTigerOGNike

In geopolitics there are no permanent friends or foes only interests , the US has been an ally only because China is now too large to control , India too is growing and the US won't allow the rise of India because dealing with 2 large powers will be a bigger headache for the global hegemon, an India small in terms of economy and military suits USA not too small neither too big , same goes for China , you want to become a global hegemon you certainly don't want competition in your border so it suits them as well to aid Pakistan.

Pakistan in the whole equation is a pawn that's very handy for both the powers to keep India busy. While the sole target of the Indian govt is to focus on economy and exports and keep stability for at least 20 years .

For example , the Pahalgam massacre has an economic angle to it as well 

Indian Kashmir was thriving economically as more and more tourists were flocking to the destination, the attack harms the local economy , creates instability and repels tourism as well

Electrical-Cat-2841

In international politics, there are no friends. There is only white solidarity among western countries and there is Islamic doctrine linking the Muslim majority countries. you don't really see "friendship" anywhere else.  The western block appears united only because they choose to outsource a good chunk of their security and foreign policy to the US. India can never belong to that block because we like our independence and we will never be treated the same way as they would treat a predominantly white nation.  At best, we could surrender everything and become something akin to Japan or South Korea if India wanted to be a "friend" of the US and its block. 

India does have positive image in Africa, and as these countries rise in stature over the next several decades, these relationships will become relevant.

ManofTheNightsWatch

idk, where you getting information from but you need to change your sources.

\- india just had FTA with UK  
\- allegedly taliban and india working together to break pakistan. Their foreigner minister was in India.  
\- Russia, Australia and japan looking forward to import indian workers in construction healthcare  
\- Indian worker currently working in Israel replacement for Palestinian workers  
\- Nepal's ex-government hated india not the nepali people.  
\- Maldives and sri lanka are stabilizing and working with india now.  
\- Bangladesh lot of it textile business to india and some other country after yunus took over.  
\- Eu investing in India  
\- India had EFTA with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland  
\- India working with african nation to build their crude extraction capacity so in future india can reduce dependence on other nations.

There are lot of thing happening silently. There even more thing happening with South america, european countries and New Zealand.

g_nerf

There are no "friends" on the world stage just like there are no real friends and relationships in a corporate structure. 

Besides that, I'd argue india or any country at that scale doesn't need a "friend", it needs to be self sufficient, creating a demand for itself by increasing it's export. China doesn't necessarily have allies and has been on the opposite end of the US in many ways but their manufacturing capabilities and supply chain make it an indispensable partner. 

All this soft power win for Pakistan means nothing because saudi isn't helping pakistan fight against India, the same way they haven't helped other Arab nations. China might help a little, but did it help pakistan immediately after india launched their counter attack? I don't think so.

casualcoder47

I think you are making it a bigger deal than it is. 

Pakistan might have scored a small win here, but it’s still very much on the way to failed state and would probably already be one without nukes and bailouts from IMF, the US and China.

HourPlate994

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Nah the best position to be in if you are a big country is to be able to ask what have you done for me lately to everyone all the time. It's only the tiny little countries that need to constantly worry about their alliances

OmniManDidNothngWrng

Friends!! India has friends that's something new to us, 

The only friend india had was the USSR, 

India doesn't have friends india has partners, who work with each other when there's mutual benefits, 

Pakistan made a defence treaty with Saudis, Saudi didn't utter a word against Afghanistan lol, 

India doesn't need friends, countries with common goals will work together with those who don't They don't

Savings-Secretary-78

I wouldn't say India is friendless. If anything, India is playing the same game South East Asia does. The idea is that you don't pick any sides in the hopes that when push comes to shove, all sides would want to offer India something.

In some way, you can say India has a lot of friends, just no best friend.

NickEricson123

It’s small but Israel genuinely loves India.

No_Bet_4427

well only thing got to say to u is do ur reasearch better and then think whatever u want to , no one can change an individual mind , remember at the end of the day results matter

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