THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 28, 1977 15 Writer Reports on Zig-Zag Course of Israel-India Relations British rule, India first in critics of American million Moglems. Al- 1947 and Israel scarcely a foreign policy to demand though Pakistan and (Editor's note: Joseph year later. When Israel's more U.S. attention to the India have renewed rela- Polakoff, the Jewish Tele- fate as a nation was at Third World. tions and resumed train graphic Agency's Washington stake in the United Na- India's present policy travel between them, Bureau chief, recently tions, India voted against toward. Israel is colored Pakistan still kmolders traveled in India for a month, the partition of Palestine by its non-alignment over its ouster from and Israel's birth. meeting Jews in five of its compact among Thir4 Bangladesh and India's Two years later, how- World countries en- cities, talking with numerous incorporation of Kashmir other Indians and Westerners ever, she recognized Is- gineered by Yugoslavia's that is 90 percent Mos- and culminating his visit with rael. Although Israel Tito, India's Nehru and lem. talks at the Ministry of Exter- immediately sought ex- Egypt's Maguid and Nas- changes of ambassadors, ser in the early 1950s and nal Relations in Delhi.) To help domestic unity Why has the govern- India barred diplomatic their cleverly designed and all-India Congress ment of India taken such relations for six years.- campaigns that edge to- control, Moslems have a cool and aloof attitude Finally in 1955, she al- wards and away from extraordinary positions for 29 years toward Israel lowed Israel to establish a each of the superpowers, in India's government far consulate-general in obtaining concessions in and even worsened rela out of proportion to their tions during the past Bombay where it has the process from Moscow numbers. existed ever since despite year? Israel has never and Washington, in turn. done India any harm in three Arab-Israeli wars Yet, in conversations In addition, India's • with literally dozens of any sphere. On the con- in which India sym- trary, Israel has ear- pathized with the Arabs. communication lines to Hindus and Sikhs in vari- To this day, India has Europe and the, West nestly and consistently ous parts of India, this stretch across the Middle had no diplomatic mission sought normal diplomatic visitor found not a single East where it gets oil and in Israel.. Israeli dip- and trade relations. one who was not sym- At a most critical lomats, including its engages inirade. pathetic to Israel, openly juncture, when India and Consuls-General, are not and strongly. More basic, however, Paki,stan were at war in invited to India. The pre- are domestic factors that 1971, Israel supported sent Consul-General - in have importantly deter- Furthermore, many India While - the Arab Bombay, Yeshua Trigor, mined India's policy from were critical of their own states backed Pakistan. has been snubbed and iso- Israel's beginnings. government's policy of Nevertheless, India's lated. Within her 600 million aloofness, especially While the export trade people are more than 60 forbidding outlook con- Sikhs who number more tinues toward Israel of Israel and India reaches while it Iparadoxically toward $10 billion, ex- warms towards her- change between them is slight, about $5 million an- enemies. In the past year alone, nually during the past few India voted for the UN years. Diamonds form the General Assembly's in- chief commodity. Israeli famous anti-Zionist re- shipping to India, once solution. India also led worthy of note, is now vir- the 20-member United tually nil. -411111011.1."- While India's media— Nations Committee — 16 NEW of which have no rela- the television and radio __./...'..."- YORK tions with Israel — in de- are government-run and _,------------ ..0.01.°11°....- . . . AP.- , —II. manding Israel's with- the newspapers are gov- drawal by next June 1 ernmentally guided — is from the territories she harsh on Israel, it is even adminiSters but made no harsher on America. mention of the need for Washington favored the Arabs to recognize Is- Pakistan in the war and it rael'S right to exist nor has cut off foreign aid that two Security Council after years of vast assis- resolutions demand the tance to India. This parallelism in In- Arab states and Israel settle their differences by dian policy leads to a •-•.•4001M8ONSMatimmon•b- w* direct negotiations bet- theory that Indian- ween them. Israeli relations would Even economically dis- get better if U.S.-Indian tressed Britain, which ties imprOved. In attack- tries desperately to stay ing Israel and supporting on good terms with-India, the Arab-Communist publicly condemned the bloc, the theory goes, India-led idea, saying out- India and its Third World siders cannot dictate a set- allies really are assailing tlement nor set a time- the United States be- limit for it. cause, they seem to con- Israeli-Indian relations sider, by weakening Is- have been mainly on a rael they lessen Ameri- zig-zag course from the ca's influence in Asia and time they emerged from Africa and cause leftist By JOSEPH POLAKOFF (Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.) . than 10 million but by in- dustry and culture hold a strong position of leader- ship in India. An American in Delhi said, "The Sikhs, all of those I know, admire the Israelis because they, like the Sikhs, defend their own people. They fought the Moslems over parti- tion, too. 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