Doctoral Programme, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Online published on 27 September, 2019.
India's relations with Israel are very extensive and old. India as member of United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) did everything possible to find a just solution to the plight of Jews and proposed Minority plan in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), was rejected. Despite this India became the fifty seventh country in the world to recognize Israel (17 September 1950). Many political parties in India like Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP), Praja Socialist Party (PSP), Janasangh and Swatantra Party stressed on the need for having close economic and political ties with Israel but failed to get desired outcome. Despite having difficulties during the cold war years India took Israel's help in Sino-Indian war of 1962 and all the other wars (1971, 1999) that it fought with its neighbours. India maintained contact with Israel, Mrs. Gandhi Sent the first director of Research and Analyses Wing (RAW) Rameshwar Nath Kao to Israel to seek relation with Mossad and see how it is organized. But never had the courage to fully recognize the help of its friend. From the very beginning India has cautiously planned its policy towards Israel because of the Hostile nature of Arabs towards it and remained neutral during superpower rivalry between Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) and United States of America (USA). Major change in Indian foreign policy came in the year 1992 when India started full diplomatic
India, Israel, Diplomatic Relations, Narendra Modi
