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

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  1. Foreign Aff airs Record (New Delhi) 15, no. 5 (May 1969): 110.

  2. Agwani, “India and the Arab World,” 75. See also India, India and Pales-
    tine, 31.

  3. Foreign Aff airs Record (New Delhi) 15, no. 5 (May 1969): 110.

  4. In 1981, President Zia ul- Haq observed: “Pakistan is like Israel, an ideologi-
    cal state. Take out the Judaism from Israel and it will fall like a house of
    cards. Take Islam out of Pakistan and make it a secular state; it would col-
    lapse.” The Economist (December 12, 1981).

  5. India’s endorsement of the NAM consensus on Palestine could be cited as
    the prime example.

  6. Rafael, Destination Peace, 89.

  7. Brecher, India and World Politics, 79.

  8. Personal interview with Morarji Desai on October 22, 1987, in Mumbai.
    When he was prime minister, Israel’s foreign minister Moshe Dayan paid
    an incognito visit to India. See also Agwani, Contemporary West Asia, 253.

  9. Quoted in Mudiam, India and the Middle East, 161.

  10. Quoted in Brecher, “Israel and China,” 223.

  11. David Ben- Gurion, Jerusalem, to Jawaharlal Nehru (July 28, 1960), Israel
    Documents, 14:686– 687.

  12. Jawaharlal Nehru, New Delhi, to David Ben- Gurion (August 9, 1960), Israel
    Documents, 14:689.

  13. Nehru, Letters to Chief Ministers, 5:361.

  14. In September 1947, for example, the government was confronted with the
    question of the prolonged stay of Jewish refugees from Af ghan i stan. Nehru
    to Vallabhbhai Patel (September 27, 1947), in Nehru, Selected Works of Jawa-
    harlal Nehru, Second Series, 4:639– 640.

  15. Moreover, between 1949 and 1960, about fi ve thousand Bene- Israeli and
    Iraqi Jews emigrated to Israel from India. Israel Year Book (1961), 378.

  16. K. L. Panjabi to H. Z. Cynowitz (March 26, 1949), ISA, 2555/5.

  17. Cable to Government of India (December 28, 1950), ISA, 2554/12.

  18. The formal designation for ambassadors among members of the British
    Commonwealth.

  19. Kidron to V. K. Krishna Menon (May 24, 1950), ISA, 2554/12.

  20. Ya’acov Shimoni to F. W. Pollack (November 6, 1950), ISA, 2554/12.

  21. Kidron to V. K. Krishna Menon (November 27, 1950), ISA, 2554/12.

  22. Ya’acov Shimoni to F. W. Pollack (January 15, 1951), ISA, 2554/12.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Leilamani Naidu to F. W. Pollack (March 8, 1951), ISA, 2554/12.

  25. Ya’acov Shimoni to F. W. Pollack (March 4, 1951), ISA, 2554/12.

  26. ISA, 2554/12.

  27. F. W. Pollack to Ya’acov Shimoni (June 15, 1951), ISA, 2554/12.

  28. Ya’acov Shimoni to F. W. Pollack (June 25, 1951), ISA, 2554/12.

  29. Ya’acov Shimoni to F. W. Pollack (July 29, 1951), ISA, 2554/12.

  30. Personal interviews in July and August 1988 in Jerusalem with Israeli con-
    suls who served in Bombay.


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