India, July 18 -- India's growing ties with Israel amid Middle Eastern sectarian tensions are forcing New Delhi to carefully balance its foreign policy with the sensitivities of its Shia minority at home

Battle ground in the Middle East, be it earlier with the likes of Al Qaida or Islamic State of the Levant (ISIL), Assad's Syria, Lebanese Hezbollah, Yemeni Houthis or most recently entailing the Israeli war on Iran are less about individual sovereignty or even Palestine, but about sectarianism.

The collective cause of Ummah (Pan-Islamic world) or even the supposed cause of Palestine, are fronted just as props and sideshows - the real battle is for supremacy between the broadly divided camp of Sunni Muslims, i.e., Arab 'Sheikhdoms', vers...