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normalization enjoys widespread support in India. Even if a government hostile
to Israel were to come to power in New Delhi, it would be unable to reverse and
nullify the achievements since 1992. In addition to the absence of any bilateral
conflicts and disputes, the improvement of the Indo-US relations adds a new and
favorable climate to Indo-Israeli relations.
NOTES
1.
Among others see, India, Ministry of External Affairs,
India and Palestine: The
Evolution of
Policy
(New Delhi, nd), M.S.Agwani, 'The Palestine conflict in Asian
perspective', in Ibrahim Abu-Laghod (ed.),
The Transformation of Palestine
(Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press 1971) pp.443-62; and Leonard
Gordon, 'Indian nationalist ideas about Palestine and Israel',
Jewish Social Studies
(New York) 37/34 (Summer-Fall 1975) pp.22-134.
2.
Harijan,
26 Nov. 1938, in
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
(New Delhi:
Publications Divisions, Government of India, 1958 ff.) Vol.68, p.137.
3.
Nehru's speech to the Asian Relations Conference in March 1947,
Asian Relations:
Report
of the proceedings and documentation of the first Asian Relations
Conference, New Delhi,
March-April 1947
(New Delhi, Asian Relations
Organization 1948) p.70.
4.
For discussions on Gandhi's position see, Gideon Shimoni,
Gandhi, Satyagraha
and the Jews:
A Formative Factor in India's Policy toward Israel
(Jerusalem:
Leonard Davis Inst. for Int. Relations 1977), P.R.Kumaraswamy, 'Mahatma Gandhi
and the Jewish national home',
Asian
and African Studies
(Haifa) 26/1 (March
1992) pp.1-13; and Margaret Chatterjee,
Gandhi and
His Jewish Friends
(Basingstoke: Macmillan 1992).
5.
Indeed, consistent with this position, in May 1949 India voted against the majority
when the Assembly approved Israeli application for UN membership. It is essential
to remember that India was advocating a plan that it found unsuitable for the
subcontinent where the Hindu-Muslim relation was less inimical than the Arab-
Jewish ties in Palestine.
6.
P.R.Kumaraswamy, 'India's recognition of Israel, September 1950',
Middle
Eastern Studies
(London) 31/1 (Jan. 1995) pp.124-38.
7.
Michael Brecher,
Nehru: A Political Biography
(London: Oxford 1959) pp.571-2;
and
The
New States of Asia: A Political Analysis
(London: Oxford, 1968 reprint) p.
130.
8.
It is often overlooked that at the UN the Kashmir question was discussed at the
Security Council where the Arab states did not have a major say.
9.
This move permanently excluded Israel from Asian Games even though Israel had
participated in a few Games in the past.
10.
P.R.Kumaraswamy, 'India and Israel: Prelude to normalization',
Journal of South-
Asian and
Middle Eastern Studies
(Villanova, PA) 19/2 (Winter 1995) pp.53-66;
and 'India, Israel and the Davis Cup tie 1987',
Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies
(forthcoming).
11.
Even at the height of anti-Israeli sentiments, India never endorsed the extremist
aspirations of the Palestinians against the existence of Israel.
