India\'s Israel Policy - P. R. Kumaraswamy

6 introduction the Arabs to resolve their diff erences with Israel through negotiation. Nehru and his successors, however, could ...

the imperial power and its interests. Obviously the Zionists could not have fought the British, the only power that was prepared ...

8 introduction po liti cal bloc. Though at times critical of India over Kashmir and the wel- fare of Indian Muslims, the Or ga n ...

symbols such as the national anthem, fl ag, holidays, and dietary laws explicitly preclude non- Jews from easily identifying the ...

10 introduction Despite Nehru’s initial reluctance to recognize it, Israel was enamored by the foreign- policy vision of the Ind ...

In the passage I have just quoted you have only to substitute the name “Israel” for “India” and you have an excellent statement ...

12 introduction home in Palestine fundamentally challenged the traditional Islamic atti- tude toward the Jews. The fulfi llment ...

strengthen bonds with Indian Muslims. Hence, despite the explicitly re- ligious nature of the problem, the Indian nationalists w ...

14 introduction historical diff erences between the Jewish question and the problems of the Muslims of British India did not rec ...

if one presents these through a secular paradigm or Marxist jargons, the sentimental response of the Indian Muslims to the Arab- ...

16 introduction That the Israel policy could be a function of domestic Muslim politics con- tinues to be absent from mainstream ...

Likewise, the emergence of the nascent pro- Arab lobby to counter the perceived pro- Israeli bias in U.S. Middle East policy is ...

18 introduction materials currently available in New Delhi, acrimonious debates in the Indian parliament, and declassifi ed mate ...

Suez crisis of 1956, when Nehru observed that the time was not ripe for relations with Israel. This subsequently became the stan ...

20 introduction po liti cal calculations. As Nehru’s friendship with Gamal Abdul Nasser grew, India became less friendly toward ...

Nehru dwelled on the Zionist’s reliance on the British for their po liti cal goals in Palestine. The marginal improvement follow ...

22 introduction the cold war, its economic leverage in the region was negligible. The fi rst oil crisis of 1973 exposed its vuln ...

addition, the Madrid conference and the recognition of Israel by the Soviet Union and China infl uenced the Indian communists. I ...

24 introduction policy, but for a vast majority of Indians he symbolized not only India’s struggle for freedom but also its po l ...

2. Mahatma Gandhi and the Jewish National Home Writing in his Harijan weekly in November 1938, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (more ...