The Israel-Palestine imbroglio needs an Indian solution. Both sides, Jews and Muslims, have much to learn from India’s successes and mistakes. Without imbibing the Vedantic value of universal humanism, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The World Is One Family), there is no escape from the vicious cycle of violence into which the two sides have been plunging headlong with unfailing regularity. The 75-year-long continuum of war-pause-war can’t be broken unless there is a paradigmatic shift from the clichéd solution of either two states or a bi-national one state. In 1947, India acquiesced to partition and a two-state solution in order to avoid civil...