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

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  1. domestic politics 303

  2. Interview to Sunday Observer (Bombay) (June 27, 1982).

  3. Rafael, Destination Peace, 88– 90.

  4. Bhagat, “The Drama and Trauma of Gaza.” See also The Hindu (March 29,
    2006; June 7, 2005).

  5. Menon, “U.S. Politics Impinges on West Asian Situation.”

  6. Quoted in Teslik, Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Special Interests, 36.

  7. Debates CA, fi rst session, part II (December 4, 1947), 1258.

  8. Debates CA (August 20, 1948), 381; Debates CA (March 4, 1949), 1256; Debates
    CA (March 9, 1949), 1400– 1401; Debates CA (November 28, 1949), 20; De-
    bates CA (December 6, 1939), 233– 234. Debates PP (February 27, 1950), 495;
    Debates PP (March 17, 1950), 1730– 1731; Debates PP (June 11, 1950), 1270; Debates
    PP (August 4, 1950), 216– 217.

  9. Such amendments moved in the Lok Sabha include those proposed by Prem-
    jibhai R. Assar (April 9, 1958), M. B. Thakor (March 1959), Assar (March 16,
    1959), S. Dwivedy (March 16, 1960), Assar (March 16, 1960), A. B. Vajpayee
    (August 31, 1960), Aurobindo Ghosh (April 3, 1961), P. Vishwambharam
    (April 3, 1969), Bal Raj Madhok (April 3, 1969), Digvijai Nath (April 3, 1969),
    B. S. Sharma (April 7, 1970), Piloo Mody (April 7, 1970), R. K. Amin (April
    23, 1973), and Ram Jethmalani (April 17, 1978). In the Rajya Sabha, such mo-
    tions included those proposed by V. M. Chordia (November 22, 1966) and V.
    D. Mani (June 23, 1967).

  10. Agwani, Contemporary West Asia, 220– 221.

  11. Among others, see Report of the Eighth National Conference of the Socialist
    Party, 11– 12, 219; Gordon, “Indian- Israeli Relations: Perspective and Prom-
    ise,” 28; and M. S. Gokhale, Secretary Foreign Relations committee PSP to
    Mapai (September 3, 1952); and Prem Bhatin, PSP to Barkatt, Director Po liti-
    cal Department of Histadrut (November 20, 1958), both in Aynor et al., The
    Role of the Israeli Labor Movement in Establishing Relations with States in
    Africa and Asia, 20, 43– 44.

  12. Among others, see Janata (September 5, 1954; July 7, 1957; June 25, 1961;
    July 9, 1967; October 8, 1967).

  13. Heptulla, Indo- West Asian Relations, 146.

  14. Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Party Documents, 1:49.

  15. Debates LS, series 1, vol. 10 (December 23, 1953), col. 2992. For a broader
    discussion of Jan Sangh policy, see Kishore, Jana Sangh and India’s Foreign
    Policy, 128– 131.

  16. Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Party Documents, 3:34– 35.

  17. Ibid., 3:137.

  18. Quoted in Schechtman, “India and Israel,” 53.

  19. Jansen, Zionism, Israel, and Asian Nationalism, 305– 307.

  20. Agwani, Contemporary West Asia, 221.

  21. Karat, “The Bush- Sharon Axis of Evil.” See also Karat’s interview in Front-
    line 20, no. 5 (March 1– 14, 2003). Available online at http:// www
    .frontlineonnet .com/ fl 2005/ stories/ 20030314007001600 .htm.

  22. Pasha, India and OIC, 44.

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