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

86 the partition of palestine The UN Special Session Before examining the Indian proposal, it is essential to remem- ber certain ...

the partition of palestine 87 The United Nations sought the views of its member states, and on April 11 the interim Indian gover ...

any exclusive linkage between religion and nation.^9 This refl ected the prevailing view of the INC regarding the demands of the ...

Naturally, Asaf Ali voted against a Panama- Guatemala resolution that called for a visit by the UNSCOP to the DP camps in Eu rop ...

founded by Mohammed Ali Jinnah, reminded its readers that Asaf Ali’s remark “should go a long way towards disillusioning those f ...

On May 14, as the Special Session was coming to a close, Nehru com- plimented Asaf Ali for shouldering additional responsibiliti ...

the offi cial communication to Asaf Ali regarding his nomination for the Special Session advised him to work toward securing Ind ...

Asaf Ali, he clashed with Nehru over his “UN personality” and solutions to the Palestine question. Abdur Rahman and UNSCOP The s ...

without the help of these countries in the fi rst World War, the question which we are called upon to consider might never have ...

ment of a “free demo cratic state in Palestine with adequate protection of Jewish rights.”^44 The need to seek an accommodation ...

Nehru was in no mood for such far- fetched claims. He strongly re- futed Rahman’s assertions that the impending partition would ...

option as “unworkable as the desire to federate is lacking at present.”^50 Outlining his proposal, Rahman cabled: Palestine shou ...

were unanimous. Guatemala and Uruguay refused to endorse the majority recommendation that declared that “any solution for Palest ...

dissent note, Rahman elaborated his reasons for rejecting the majority suggestions. His arguments can be broadly summarized as f ...

League of Nations;^66 that where the Mandate was found to be inconsis- tent with the Covenant, the latter would prevail; and tha ...

Why Did the Indian Plan Fail? The fundamental disadvantage of the federal plan was that it was rejected by both contending parti ...

into two parties, one Jewish and the other Arab.”^70 While partition meant a severing of even the minimal contacts between the t ...

state of Pakistan, a substantial number of Muslims chose to remain in India. No such similarities existed in Palestine. Though a ...

communal divisions, one scholar aptly remarked: partition, “the only means of real freedom to the Indian Muslims,... was anathem ...

the majority partition plan by twenty- fi ve votes to thirteen, with nineteen abstentions. It also altered the territorial limit ...