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

Our representative in South Africa will have to bear in mind that the Indian community out there can also become either useful o ...

level meeting between two sides, and by that time, the Zionists had lost India to the Arabs.^116 It is obvious that while their ...

4 The Islamic Prism 4. The Islamic Prism: The INC Versus the Muslim League To understand India’s Israel policy, one has to recog ...

the islamic prism 69 tions, were infl uenced and at times dominated by the Islamic factor. While its cultural interactions and t ...

70 the islamic prism fears of Indian Muslims toward the Hindus were not dissimilar to that of the Jews and their struggle in Pal ...

the islamic prism 71 War I to not cooperate with the British eff orts against Turkey, because such actions were “in direct defi ...

72 the islamic prism the demand for a Jewish national home. More than a dispute over na- tional rights, it was primarily a relig ...

the islamic prism 73 the focal point of Indian discourses on Palestine, in the initial years its support for Arabs was wrapped i ...

74 the islamic prism The Congress Party Versus the Muslim League The Muslim League, formed in 1906, initially had no major an- t ...

the islamic prism 75 Revolt by Sharif Hussein of Mecca against the Ottoman Empire had “en- dangered the future of our holy place ...

76 the islamic prism “require that the Balfour Declaration shall be immediately scrapped.”^24 Following the adoption of a resolu ...

the islamic prism 77 Prior to the adoption of this resolution, a number of delegates re- sorted to mouthing familiar anti- Semit ...

78 the islamic prism After 1943, the Muslim League’s proceedings were confi ned to coun- cil meetings, chaired by Jinnah, that m ...

the islamic prism 79 distinct nation, diff erent from the majority Hindus. This in turn led to the Muslim League projecting itse ...

80 the islamic prism areas forming Pakistan.^41 For Palestine, however, Nehru advocated a fed- eral arrangement, something he wa ...

the islamic prism 81 accompanying the body to Jerusalem, to quarantine the Palestine prob- lem from domestic Indian politics.^44 ...

82 the islamic prism the princely state of Bikaner, was a member of the Indian delegation to the conference. After the conferenc ...

the islamic prism 83 East... between Hinduism and Judaism there is a great deal in com- mon.” Thus the creation of Hindu- Zionis ...

84 the islamic prism the evolution of a “Hindu” opinion. Other than adopting the Machiavellian logic of “my enemy’s enemy is my ...

5. India, UNSCOP, and the Partition of Palestine Speaking before the Constituent Assembly of India on December 4, 1947, just day ...