Iran‘s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejects Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s application for UN statehood“Our claim is freedom of Palestine, not part of Palestine. Any plan that partitions Palestine is totally rejected,” says Khamenei. “Palestine spans from the river [Jordan] to the [Mediterranean] sea, nothing less.”
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India, who has always supported Palestine, has had an historically pro-Arab position partly due to the fact that India has a huge Muslim population which empathized with the Arab world, and viewed Israel with suspicion and distrust. But Muslim influence was not the only reason for India’s pro-Palestine stance, as reported by Al Jazeera’s Ramananda Sengupta in “India’s Israel-Arab Tightrope Walk.”
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