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Comment: Palestine-Israel conflict in the present context.

  • UPSC 1998
  • 20 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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The Palestine-Israel conflict is a dispute between two national movements over one territory, turning on four unresolved questions: borders and settlements, refugees, Jerusalem and Palestinian statehood. In 1998 the "present context" was a peace process losing momentum; in October 2026 it is a ruined Gaza under a fragile, externally supervised ceasefire and a two-State formula…

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  • The context of 1998: Oslo under strain
  • From process to collapse, 2000–2023
  • The present context, 2025–26
  • Theoretical reading
  • India's position
  • Conclusion
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