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Embracing Netanyahu (again), appeasing Trump, cold-shouldering Tehran: Modi has overturned New Delhi's delicate balancing act between Iran and Israel. Is the prime minister gambling with India's future?
Just days ago, Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, was basking in the warm glow of an extraordinary Israeli welcome. He received an ersatz medal in the Knesset, pledged to stand shoulder-to-shoulder against terrorism, and giggling delightedly over the deftly engineered 'coincidence' of wearing a similar saffron color as Sara Nethanyahu.
