India-Israel relations come out of Arab world shadow:
The India-Israel relationship is finally out of the closet. In three days in Israel and Palestine, foreign minister S M Krishna showed that Indian foreign policy may have finally matured enough to be able to conduct perfectly normal, successful relations with Israel and the Arab world simultaneously, without worrying about hurting feelings or stepping on toes.
I think one can put too much emphasis on shared cultural affinities: the anti-Islamic sentiment which pervades much of Israeli and Indian society. The two nations are geographically far enough that there can be coordination without excessive concern about local side-effect consequences (in contrast, for example, to Turkey). One also assumes that Iran and India are going to continue to maintain relatively cordial relationships due to their common worries about Pakistan, where anti-Shia terrorism is ascendant (despite, or perhaps because, the president of Pakistan himself is a Shia?).