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

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  1. Pasha, India and OIC, vi.

  2. India, MEA Report 1971– 1972, 42– 43; MEA Report 1972– 1973, 34. Debates
    RS, vol. 77 (August 14, 1972), col. 32. For a detailed discussion on the Middle
    East response, see Singh, “Subcontinent and WANA countries,” 101– 116.

  3. India, MEA Report 1971– 1972, 45– 50; Debates RS, vol. 77 (July 21, 1971),
    cols. 1– 8.
    6 4. Debates RS, vol. 75 (March 31, 1971), cols. 123– 124; Debates RS, vol. 77 (July
    28, 1971), col. 8; Debates RS, vol. 77 (August 4, 1971), col. 68.
    6 5. Debates LS, series 5, vol. 14 (April 26, 1972), 227.
    6 6. Debates RS, vol. 76 (November 30, 1973), col. 92; and India, MEA Report
    1973– 1974, 45.
    6 7. Debates RS, vol. 76 (December 12, 1973), cols. 256– 257.

  4. For a detailed discussion on the resolution, see Lewis, “The Anti- Zionist
    Resolution.”

  5. India, MEA Report 1975– 1976, 76.
    7 0. ADL International Report: India’s Campaign Against Israel.

  6. Until the Congress split in the late 1960s, he was a prominent leader of the
    party and served as deputy prime minister under Indira Gandhi.

  7. India, MEA Report 1977– 1978, 12. See also Gangal, “Trends in India’s For-
    eign Policy,” 50– 51.

  8. India, MEA Report 1977– 1978, v.

  9. For the text of the resolution adopted at Khartoum Arab League summit
    meeting on September 1, 1967, see http:// www .mfa .gov .il/ MFA.

  10. Debates LS, series 6, vol. 19 (November 23, 1978), 21; Debates RS, vol. 109
    (May 16, 1979), col. 343; and India, MEA Report 1979– 1980, 18. The last,
    however, was prepared after Indira Gandhi became prime minister in Janu-
    ary 1980.
    7 6. Times of India (New Delhi) (October 1, 1978).

  11. Indeed, this happened when India was ruled by a minority government
    headed by Charan Singh and Egypt was allowed to participate in the NAM
    Havana summit.

  12. Egypt is a founding member of both these organizations.

  13. Dayan, Breakthrough, 26.

  14. Desai’s press conference in Bombay on May 16, 1980, Indian Express (New
    Delhi) (May 17, 1980). Personal interview with Desai in Bombay (October
    22, 1987).

  15. Times of India (New Delhi) (May 22, 1980).
    8 2. Debates LS, series 7, vol. 4 (June 12, 1980), 12.

  16. “Dayan Visit Tarnished India’s Image, Says Narasimha Rao,” Hindustan
    Times (June 13, 1980).

  17. There was also a fundamental transformation in Israel. Just as the Congress
    Party lost power, in June 1977 the Likud party defeated the Labor Party,
    which had been in power since the establishment of Israel.

  18. Dayan, Breakthrough, 28– 29; Personal interview with Desai in Bombay
    (October 22, 1987).
    10. years of hardened hostility, 1964– 1984 315

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