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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 13, 1984
India's relations with Israel:
a coolness based on location
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Nehru's daughter, Indira
The Israelis had no direct
ernment admits to nothing
BY VICTOR BIENSTOCK
Gandhi, who has been In-
One of the great in common with the Is- recorded contact with
dian Prime Minister for
anomalies to be found in the raelis. Its hostility is not Nehru until 1956 when
some 15 years, has main-
diplomatic history of the due to its close relationship Foreign Minister Moshe
tained the policy of aloof-
State of Israel is the with the Soviet Union Sharett was received by the
ness from Israel and has
Israeli-Indian relationship which, until recently, was Indian leader in Delhi. The
sided with the Soviet-
or, more correctly, the lack its major supplier of arms, Sinai campaign — which
of relations between India, nor to its stand-offish, sus- Sharett had opposed — had Arab-third world majority
in the United Nations on
the largest nation on earth P icious attitude toward the begun just before the inter-
most anti-Israel resolu-
with a democratic form of United States of which it view and the unlucky Is- tions. She was interviewed
government, and Israel, one considers Israel a satellite. raeli had to spend most of
of the world's smallest. India extended recogni- the time defending his in New Delhi earlier this
year by James W. Michaels,
It is all the more inex- tion to Israel in 1950 and country's actions from
editor of Forbes, the busi-
permitted
Israel
to
open
a
Nehru's
condemnations.
plicable given the many
ness magazine. "This gov-
consulate
in
Bombay
two
Despite
all
Sharett's
eloqu-
similarities to be found in
years later to handle ence, Nehru concluded his ernmental leaning towards
their histories and situa-
routine consular matters policy of aloofness to Israel the Arabs and Moscow,"
tions.
Michaels noted, "is an old
The question assumes but it has never exchanged was justified.
policy in India" and he
The
next
direct
contact
added import today as Israel ambassadors with the
stressed that it dated back
Jewish state and in all in- came in 1961 when Ambas-
seeks to break out of the
to her father's time. He did
tervening
years,
Israel's
sador
Gideon
Rafael,
a
vete-
semi-isolation the Arab
not offer direct quotes on
states were able to compel diplomatic service has had ran, distinguished dip- what Mrs. Gandhi had to
to
contend
with
Indian
hos-
lomat,
went
to
the
annual
the oil-hungry world to ob-
say about Israel but made
serve. Now that Israeli dip- tility in the United Nations conference of the World this comment:
and
other
international
Health
Organization
in
lomacy is beginning to
"It irks Indians that
New Delhi, and while there
break through and secure forums.
Americans fail to under-
One
of
Israel's
bitterest
was
received
by
Nehru.
restoration of relations with
stand India's pro-Arab
states in Africa and with critics during its first de- They had a lively discus- policies have many - of the
Spain, the lone holdout in cade was the Indian Ambas- sion, as Rafael records in his
Europe, seeking the right sador to the United Nations, memoirs. The Israeli found same motivations as the
U.S. pro-Israel policies.
moment to establish rela- Krishna Menon. His diat- his host friendly and under- There is oil, but more im-
ribes
against
Israel
in
the
standing
but,
as
he
con-
tions, the Israelis are be-
portant to a politician like
ginning again to look east- General Assembly rivaled
Indira Gandhi, there is the
ward to Asia. They seek to in intensity those of the
Muslim vote, 12 percent of
revive old friendships and most hostile Arabs. Yet
the total and often the bal-
seek new ones among the Menon, a close and trusted
ance of power.
Third World countries there adviser of Nehru, had had
"In fact," says Michaels,
which have obediently fol- close and warm relation-
"when the ordinary Hindu
lowed Arab dictates for the ships with many Jews dur- •
thinks 'about the Middle
ing his Bloomsbury student
past-ten years.
East at all, he is likely to
Both India and Israel days in London. The Indians
cheer at Israeli victories
were basically socialist in showed no indication of feel-
over Arabs; the differences
their origins. Jawaharlal ing that two states which
had so many experiences cluded, "Nehru preferred between Hindus and Mus-
Nehru, the creator of the
modern Indian state , and and conditions in common evasion to valor and expedi- lims are far deeper and
much older than the an-
the Zionist-Socialists like and which had been born in ence to principle."
Goldmann tagonism between Muslims
Nahum
David Ben-Gurion who struggle in the death of the
pioneered Jewish statehood British Empire were reached pretty much the and Jews."
Drawing on her own
in Palestine, shared a belief natural allies, sharing the same conclusion when he
met Nehru a few years later Asian experiences, former
in Marxist socialism and same objectives.
In 1952, an opportunity at the suggestion of Eleanor Prime Minister Golda Meir
envisaged states built on
socialist principles. When arose to approach Prime Roosevelt and through the once tried to explain the
Nehru organized the First Minister Nehru through an intermediary of the Ameri- failure of most Israelis and
Asian Relations Conference intermediary thoroughly can diplomat-historian, Asians to understand each
in Delhi in 1947 to bring to- familiar with and devoted to Chester Bowles. Bowles had other and create mutual
gather the nationalist the Israel cause. The late thought that Nehru could ties.
Asia, she remarked "lay
Landau, founder and use his considerable influ-
groups working for rode- Jacob
for many years the guiding ence on Gamal Abdel Nas- outside the traditions of the
pendence of their lands and
the heads of the new states genius of the Jewish Tele- ser, the Egyptian chief of Old Testament, and there
graphic Agency, had con- state, to induce him to con- was more need to explain
of the area, h e invited the ceived plans for a new sider Goldmann's plan for a and interpret who we were
Palestine Jews to partici-
and where we came from."
pate despite the strong ob- supra-national interna- Near East federation.
The lack of information
jections of the Arab states. tional news agency to be"Nehru's attitude toward
about the Far East was the
It may be going to ex- based, at the start, in India.
ambivalent,"
Goldmann
tremes to compare the mic- His plan had the backing of Israel
was well-known
to be inspiration of a witticism
roscopic Jewish population such journalistic
undoubtedly
apocryphal,
"
of Israel with the teeming luminaries as Herbert wrote
later. To that
me he
ac-
knowledged
if he
had that made the rounds in
millions of Hindus in India Bayard Swope, the crusad- been consulted before the Jerusalem in Israel's the
New UN decision, he would have first days of statehood: Two
and old
of Mar-
and say that they both are ing editor of the
enterprising Russian Jews
York
World,
islands in a vast Moslem sea
but, psychologically, they shall Field, the Chicago opposed the creation of a who had spent years in
are. The population of philanthropist and pub- Jewish
in a country
where state
the majority
of whose Harbin as refugees before
neither state is homogenous lisher, who founded the people were Arabs, even making their way to Israel
and racial and religious newspaper that became the though he recognized hu- had opened a Chinese-style
Field manity's obligation, after restaurant in the center of
problems complicated the Chicago Sun-Times.
establishment of both provided the seed money for the Nazi tragedy, to provide Jerusalem.
The Foreign Ministry, so
the project.
the Jewish people with a se-
states.
the story went, was sending
It
had
been
arranged
that
cure
center
of
existence.
Predominantly Hindu the Indian Ambassador in However, since Israel was its trainee-diplomats there
India fears Communist Washington would return now a fait accompli, every- for "Orientation" courses.
China to the north but its
immediate security concern to India with Landau to in- thing should be done to pro-
tect it and to prevent any Labor statistics
is the adjoining Moslem troduce him to Nehru whose
armed aggression, which he
state of Pakistan when Gen. active approval was re-
Jerusalem (ZINS) — Be-
categorically censured."
quired
if
the
agency
were
to
s
Zia's regime reputedly i
tween
1970 and 1982, Is-
Nehru, Goldmann added,
well on the way, with Li- be based in India.
rael's work force increased
promised
to
speak
to
Nasser
Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
byan financial support, to
about the federation plan. by 331,000. Only 20 percent
building an atomic bomb. chairman of the Jewish
He apparently did and re- of the additional workers
Israel, of course, is sur- Agency Executive, asked
ceived a categorical refusal are in the industrial sector.
rounded on all sides but one Landau to utilize the occa-
Presently, 50 percent of
from Nasser to negotiate
by Moslem states which re- sion to speak to Nehru
Israeli workers are in serv-
with
Ben-Gurion.
The
out-
fuse to make peace with it about Indian-Israeli rela-
break of the 1967 war soon ice jobs, 22 percent in indus-
and recognize its right to tions. But on the day he was
thereafter resulted in a try, seven percent in corn-
exist. to be briefed by members of
plethora of resolutions in municati;ns, six percent in
One would think that the executive prior to his
the U.N., with India consis- agriculture, six. percent in
these similarities would re- departure, Landau was
tently voting in support of construction, and one per-
suit in some community of stricken by- a heart attack
cent in basic utilities. •
the Arabs.
interest but the Indian gov- and died.
It may be going to
extremes to say
they are both
islands in a vast
Moslem sea.
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