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

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  1. Israel and the United Nations, 166.

  2. Quoted in Kimche, “The Arab Boycott of Israel,” 6.

  3. Israel joined the West Eu ro pe an and Others Group in 2000 and thus be-
    came eligible to contest elections to UN Security Council.

  4. The Arab boycott has been studied extensively and some of the notable works
    include: Sarna, Boycott and Blacklist; Teslik, Congress, the Executive Branch, and
    the Special Interests; Chill, The Arab Boycott of Israel; and Prittie and Nelson,
    The Economic War Against the Jews. The Arab points of view are available in
    Iskandar, The Arab Boycott of Israel; and Meo et al., The Arab Boycott of Israel.

  5. Mandel, The Arabs and Zionism Before World War I, 81.

  6. Prittie and Nelson, The Economic War Against the Jews, 142; Sarna, Boycott
    and Blacklist, 185.

  7. M. R. Baveja, Cairo, to Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi (April 21, 1948),
    and Foreign Offi ce to Embassy, Cairo (April 19, 1949), NAI, F-13(70)- 1A/49.

  8. Debates PP, vol. 6, part 1 (February 20, 1951), 1580; Debates RS, vol. 40 (Au-
    gust 13, 1962), cols. 1319– 1320.

  9. Sarna, Boycott and Blacklist, 185.

  10. FICCI, Report of the Indian Delegation to West Asian Countries, 27. Emphasis
    added. Arab countries often used the expression “Israeli” as a synonym for
    “Zionist” or “Jew.”

  11. Ibid.

  12. India, Documents of the Gatherings of Nonaligned Countries, 1961– 1979, 94.

  13. Ibid., 111. Chapter 7 deals with the powers of the Security Council in dealing
    with “threats to the peace, breaches of peace and acts of aggression” and em-
    powers the council to impose and enforce punitive mea sures against states
    violating its recommendations.

  14. India, Ministry of External Aff airs, http:// meaindia .nic .in/ foreignrelation/
    palestine .pdf, p. 6.; and Pradhan, “Changing Dynamics of India’s West Asia
    Policy,” 10.

  15. Korey, “India and Israel,” 8. It is rather surprising that none of the Indian
    writers have mentioned this reported visit.

  16. Debates LS, series 4, vol. 33 (November 19, 1969), 36– 37; vol. 34 (December
    3, 1969); and vol. 37 (March 4, 1970), 166– 167.

  17. Debates RS, vol. 73 (August 26, 1970), col. 123.

  18. India, MEA Report 1969– 1970, 56.

  19. Debates RS, vol. 71 (March 26, 1970), col. 28.

  20. India, Documents of the Gatherings of Nonaligned Countries, 1961– 1979, 32.

  21. Ibid., 138.

  22. Ibid., 186.

  23. Debates LS, series 4, vol. 40 (April 22, 1970), 230.

  24. International Documents on Palestine 1973, 525.

  25. Debates RS, vol. 90 (November 22, 1974), col. 47.

  26. Hindustan Times (December 23, 1974).

  27. Asian Recorder 21 (March 5– 11, 1975): 12475. Until then, the Arab League
    offi ce in New Delhi was looking after the interests of the PLO.

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