he [Panikkar] had been asking after me and looking for a chance of meeting
me again privately, since his offi cial position as Indian Ambassador to Egypt
and some other Arab countries... now makes it impossible for him to meet
me in public.” Elath to Eytan (September 8, 1953), ISA, 2413/29.
- Sasson to Divon (June 22, 1951), ISA, 2413/29.
- Mudiam, India and the Middle East, 166.
- Six years later, another six- member delegation went to Israel to study the
working of the cooperative system. Debates LS, series 2, vol. 43 (April 21,
1960), 12917– 12920.
- Ben- Gurion to Nehru (July 28, 1960) in Aynor, The Role of the Israeli Labor
Movement in Establishing Relations with States in Africa and Asia, 44.
- Personal diaries of Ya’acov Shimoni.
- Menon to Eytan (September 14, 1954), ISA, 2413/29.
- For example, the Israeli consul in Bombay hosted a dinner in January 1974
in honor of the four- member Israeli delegation. Among others, the noted
physicist M. G. K. Menon was present. News From Israel (Bombay) 21, no. 3
(February 1, 1972): 7.
- For example, see ibid., 12.
- For a detailed assessment, see Caplan, “The 1956 Sinai Campaign Viewed
from Asia.”
- Rafael, Destination Peace, 89.
- For the minutes of this meeting, see CZA, Z6/2344.
- Offi cial note (August 4, 1953), in India, Ministry of External Aff airs, Protocol
Hand Book, 193– 194.
- Nehru’s press interviews on September 26, 1946. In Nehru, Selected Works
of Jawaharlal Nehru, Series II, 1:501.
- Personal interview with Ya’acov Shimoni in Jerusalem in September 1988.
- Personal interviews with former Israeli diplomats. The exact date is not
available. This most likely had happened in the late 1950s or early 1960s, yet
the suggestions were frequently raised during the tenure of Shastri, Indira
Gandhi, and Morarji Desai.
- Rafael, Destination Peace, 87.
- For a detailed study, see Nachmani, Israel, Turkey, and Greece, 50– 55.
- Domestic Politics
The epigraph to this chapter is taken from Wilson, Decision on Palestine, 58.
Truman made this statement in November 1945. Emphasis added.
- Appadorai, Domestic Roots of India’s Foreign Policy, 119– 169.
- The overwhelmingly religious or nonsecular character of most of the countries
of the Middle East, however, rarely evoke interest, let alone criticism, in India.
- Nehru, Glimpses of World History.
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