318 11. prelude to normalization- Waggonner, The So- Called New Era of Ping- Pong Diplomacy with Communist
China. - The Hindu (March 28, 1987).
- The onset of the intifada later that year, however, considerably undermined
some of this goodwill toward Israel. - For example, in 2007 an Israeli journalist working for the Yediot Ahoronot
newspaper visited Syria and reported on the Israeli airstrike on a suspected
nuclear plant, in Deir er Zor in eastern Syria. - Personal conversations with Israeli diplomats in Jerusalem in August 1988.
- Personal conversation with Jewish leaders in New Delhi in May 1988.
- India Today (New Delhi) (October 31, 1989): 163.
- Ibid.
- A full- page advertisement in the Jerusalem Post (May 23, 1991). See also
“ ‘Little India’ Thrives Amid Diamond Industry,” Jerusalem Post (May 24, 1991). - Quoted in Ward, India’s Pro- Arab Policy, 123.
- Ibid., 124.
- An editorial in the Jerusalem Post (March 27, 1988) called it the “Indian rope
trick.” My sincere thanks to the late Walter Eytan for bringing this editorial
to my notice. - This is true for the pro- Arab stance in the United States.
- Due to the violent situation, elections were postponed in the state of Punjab.
- It was therefore not surprising that Singh was one of the handful of leaders
to criticize Prime Minister Narasimha Rao’s decision to establish diplo-
matic relations with Israel. - This happened in the middle of the Lok Sabha elections. The award was for-
mally presented to Arafat in March 1990 by Gandhi’s successor, V. P. Singh. - For a background discussion, see Somaratna, “Renewal of Ties Between Sri
Lanka and Israel; and Somaratna, “Sri Lanka’s Relations with Israel.” - Some even argued that India was compelled to intervene in Sri Lanka be-
cause of Colombo’s “security connections” with Israel. Dixit, Assignment
Colombo, 327. - For the full text of the accord, see ibid., 355– 361.
- “Now in Fiji,” Israeli Foreign Aff airs (November 1987): 1, 7; Ha’aretz (Novem-
ber 13, 1986) in FBIS- MEA (November 14, 1986): I/3– 4; “Israelis in Fiji,”
Israeli Foreign Aff airs (August 1988): 1, 4. - Interaction with a se nior Indian diplomat who served in Fiji during that
period in 1991. - Among others, see Iqbal Masud, “Strange Bedfellows,” Indian Express (April
20, 1986); Girilal Jain, “An Israel- Pak Alliance,” Times of India (May 1, 1987);
and Lawrence Lifschutz, “Pakistan Was Iran- Contra’s Secret Back Door,”
Times of India (November 24, 1991). - Fighting for a separate Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka, the LTTE is declared
as terrorist or ga ni za tion by a number of countries, including India and the
United States, and is proscribed from operating. - Ganguly, “India’s Foreign Policy Grows Up,” 43.