- Quoted in Selak, “A Consideration of the Legal Status of the Gulf of
Aqaba,” 2:711.
- They are Egypt (100 miles), Saudi Arabia (100 miles), Israel (6.5 miles), and
Jordan (3.5 miles).
- Selak, “A Consideration of the Legal Status of the Gulf of Aqaba,” 2:711.
- At its northern end, where all four states are contiguous, the breadth of
the gulf is just three miles. The territorial zones claimed are six nautical
miles each for Egypt, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, and three nautical miles for
Jordan. Bloomfi eld, Egypt, Israel, and the Gulf of Aqaba in International
Law, 2.
- Debates LS, series 1, vol. 9, part 2 (November 20, 1956), cols. 594– 595.
- Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru, 2:290.
- Heikal, The Cairo Documents, 294.
- The Jerusalem Post (October 29, 1962).
- Maxwell, India’s China War, 385; Heikal, The Cairo Documents, 297; Mu-
diam, India and the Middle East, 161– 162. This event subsequently got Israel
into trouble with China, as Chairman Mao began using this arms supply to
justify and impede Sino- Israeli ties.
- Heikal, The Cairo Documents, 297– 298. See also Heptulla, Indo- West
Asian Relations, 191.
- India, MEA Report 1963– 1964, 45– 48. In the words of Gopal, “India was
now prepared to obtain arms from any source. Even with Israel there were
talks, which had soon to be ended because of Nasser’s opposition.” As in the
case of Maulana Azad’s role regarding nonrelations with Israel, once again
Gopal relied on an external source to make this argument, namely Heikal.
Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru, 3:224.
- For example, see Agwani, “India and West Asia,” 169– 171.
10. The Years of Hardened Hostility, 1964– 1984
The epigraph to this chapter is taken from Agwani, Contemporary West Asia,
253.
- India, Documents of the Gatherings of Nonaligned Countries, 1961– 1979, 21.
- Korey, “India and Israel,” 8.
- Debates LS, series 3, vol. 44 (August 23, 1965), 1194– 1195.
- MEA Report 1965– 1966, 36– 37; MEA Report 1966– 1967, 31; Debates RS, vol.
54 (November 22, 1965), col. 2127.
- Debates RS, vol. 54 (November 22, 1965), col. 2127.
- Personal interviews with Reuven Dafni, who served as Israeli consul during
this period, in Jerusalem, 1992. Details, however, are not available.
- For a background discussion on the bilateral relations, see Kozichi, “Nepal
and Israel.”
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