302 7. d omestic politics- Surjeet Singh, Director of Monitoring Ser vice, Simla, to Secretary Ministry
of External Aff airs (July 13, 1948), NAI, F-19(119)- 1A/48. - Debates CA (August 9, 1948), 28.
- Debates CA (August 20, 1948), 381.
- Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru, 2:169.
- Ibid., 2:169– 170. Emphasis added.
- E. Elath to M. Sharett (October 14, 1949), Israel Documents, 4:547– 548.
- Eytan, “New Delhi Diary,” ISA, 2383/21.
- This note, dated February 27, 1950, was prepared anticipating supplemen-
tary questions on Israel in parliament. NAI, F.23 (2)- AWT/50. - The issue was sorted out when Jordan agreed to provide temporary travel
documents that were recognized by Riyadh. - Agwani, Contemporary West Asia, 230.
- Desai, The Story of My Life, 2:257.
- Dayan, Breakthrough, 29.
- The Hindustan Times (May 24, 1980). See also Gandhi, The Morarji Papers,
235– 236. - Janata (New Delhi) 33 (November 5, 1978): 19. Jagjivan Ram expressed his
“shock” when Dayan’s visit was disclosed in May 1980. - M. L. Sondhi, quoted in Malik and Singh, Hindu Nationalists in India, 125.
- Ibid.
- Dixit, My South Block Years, 311.
- Pasha, India and OIC, 52– 53.
- Interestingly, on August 24, 2000, weeks after the visit, a lawmaker asked
“whether the hon’ble Prime Minister has made a statement during his visit
to Israel that diplomatic relations between India and Israel were delayed
because of Muslim vote- bank in India.” Since it was the foreign minister
who visited and made these remarks, the government responded, saying:
“Do not arise as Prime Minister did not visit Israel.” Debates RS, unstarred
question (August 24, 2000). - Varadarajan, “When Jaswant Took Indian Politics to Foreign Shores.”
- Noorani, “Palestine and Israel.” Interestingly, in 1969 Noorani had lam-
basted Indira Gandhi’s government over the Rabat episode. - Press conference of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, New York (Sep-
tember 16, 2005), Ministry of External Aff airs (New Delhi). Available online
at http:// meaindia .nic .in/ pressbriefi ng/ 2005/ 09/ 16pb01 .htm. Similar argu-
ments were put forth by National Security Advisor M. K. Narayanan when
he announced the brief stopover visit by the Ira ni an president, Mahmoud
Ahmedinejad, in April 2008. - Heptulla, Indo- West Asian Relations, 160– 161.
- Bagchi, “Shalom,” 18.
- Statesman (Calcutta) (February 28, 1992).
- For a brief discussion on Sharon’s visit see Cucciniello and Mitra, “India
and Israel Move Closer Together.” - Pasha, India and OIC, 42.