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

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India, 165– 66; on missed

opportunities to cultivate ties to India,

66; on Nehru’s original intentions to

establish relations, 122– 23; on

Nehru’s reasons for delaying

normalization, 152; visit to India

(1952), 132– 33, 148– 49, 165– 66, 265

Faisal, king of Saudi Arabia, 211, 212

Falerio, Eduardo, 236

Farouq, king of Egypt, 304n9

al- Fatah, 140, 177, 180, 276n14

federal plan for Palestine, 80, 85,

97– 100, 246, 265; described, 100;

failure to gain ac cep tance, 101– 4

Fiji, 234– 35

Fischer, Louis, 34

foreign investment, 250, 251, 255

Foxman, Abraham, 228

France, 5, 7, 197, 248

Freund, Richard, 63

Gandhi, Indira: on al- Aqsa mosque

attack, 210; assassination of, 223,

224; diffi cult domestic situation and

state of emergency 1975– 1977, 217;

diplomatic recognition granted to

PLO, 222; and Eytan, 132; fi rst

administration (1966– 1977), 203;

intelligence cooperation with Israel,

241– 42, 319n12; and June war of

1967, 204– 10; and Moshe Dayan’s

visit to India (1977), 154, 219– 22; and

PLO, 178; preparation for leadership,

317n2; and Rabat conference of

1969, 213; second administration

(1980– 1984), 221– 23; and

secularism, 139; strengthened

position following Bangladesh war

(1971), 216

Gandhi, Mahatma, 25– 43, 56, 265,

278n32, 286n17; ac cep tance of

Islamic rationale against Jewish

aspirations in Palestine, 12, 37,

41– 42, 71, 140; on Arab rights to

Egypt: ac cep tance of sovereign status of
Israel, 8; Camp David accords
(1978), 218– 19, 232; concerns over
India’s normalization of relations
with Israel, 250, 260, 272; hostility
of Egyptians to Israel in spite of
normalized relations, 142; India’s
need for alternate powers after loss
in June 1967 war, 211; infl uence on
India during Nasser’s time, 124,
171– 72, 266; marginalization of
Nasser’s secular nationalism, 211;
Maulana Abdul Kalam Center
(Cairo), 250, 260; and NAM, 219;
neutrality during Sino- Indian
confl ict, 199; personal friendship
between Nehru and Nasser, 124,
266; presence at Asian Relations
Conference of 1947, 184; and Rabat
conference of 1969, 212; and
Rajiv Gandhi government, 232;
readmitted to Arab League and OIC,
226; suspended from Arab League
and OIC, 219, 232. See also June war
of 1967; Suez crisis of 1956
Einstein, Albert, 119
Elath, Eliahu (Eliahu Epstein), 35, 90,
109, 112, 116, 134, 151, 169– 70,
288n52, 299n157
embassies, 123– 24; Indian embassy in
Tel Aviv, 245; Israeli embassy in New
Delhi, 245; and PLO, 178, 222, 247;
possibility of Indian ambassador
in Turkey being concurrently
accredited to Israel, 136. See also
consular relations
energy security, 173– 74
Entebbe Airport rescue, 180– 81
Epstein, Eliahu. See Elath, Eliahu
Eytan, Walter: admiration for Nehru’s
foreign policy vision, 10– 11; on de
facto vs. de jure recognition, 115; on
deferred recognition, 113– 14; eff orts
toward normalization (March 1952),
18; on Israel’s commonalities with