Hyderabad, July 2 -- With Palestine emerging as the Narendra Modi government's Achilles' heel, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is mounting moral pressure to take a more humanitarian stand, with Gaza being turned from an open-air prison into an open-air graveyard. Describing Israeli actions as "genocide," Sonia Gandhi pointed out that the Modi government's silence, especially on Gaza, is not just morally reprehensible but also inexplicable from a national interest perspective.

Gandhi surmised that India's current foreign policy had alienated the country from its traditional partners in Palestine, Iran and the wider West Asia. It also paved the way for the emergence of Pakistan as a mediator in the region. She described Prime Minister Narendr...