indo israel - (not final) notes

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Indo- Israel Relations & West Asia

Indias relation with West Asia-

Most of Indias conquerors are from West Asia

Afghan invaders were inuenzed b !ersian culture and ofcourse were Muslims"

West Asia is one #art of the world where colonial #owers and em#ires could not

full dominate"

$ntil oil was discovered% most of its #ur#ose was its strategic #osition between

India and uro#e"

'he constat #ursuit of trade routes between these two regions has ensured

stead ow of culture% #eo#le and goods in all directions"

India recognised Israel as a (tate in )*+,% e#t it as such"

!rior to )**, India was #ro #alestiania and not much friendl to Israel

Causes:

Russian favouritism in )*.,s because of #ragmatism nd ideological closeness

Indian stand against militar invasion b /rit% 0rance and Israel during (uez crisis

Israel invasion into 1ebanon"

)**, tured a great landmar in IR" 2old war ended 34 india o#ened u#

di#lomatic elations

)**5- Indo-Israel di#lomac o#ened u#

6ow 7 areas of focus

)" (ecurit

5" nerg7" 2ulture

(ecurit

Increased during 8a9#aee govt

Against terrorism

Indias need to grow as a militar #ower% es#eciall after Mumbai attacs and

Israel on loo for a stable e:#ort maret of its tech and defencemachineries has led to close India ties"


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;ence% it stands as the most vital of the relationshi#"

Israels Arrow II misile defense sstem is better equi##ed to reduce !aista

nuclear threat to India" ;ence Israel assume signiews

thereb creating a !laestine as a >ew state and soon reocgnied b India

;owever% Israels militar #ower and tech has outshined Indian emotional concern

over !alestine"

lection of ;amas as #licial authorit in !alestine #ut Idnia in trouble as the soft

corner to !alestine now did not stand #arallel to the militant activit of ;amas"

'hus better stand is to sta awa from the Israel-!alestine issues

Most of the reason wh India did not su##ort Isreal during 2ongress era

was to a##ease Indian muslims who were emotionall in favour of !alestinan

muslims"

/>! was in su##ort of Israel"

)**5- new wave of light% es# because of dilution of cold wa% 6AM and

e:#ansionar #olic"

India- estb gud lins with Mossad thru RAW% es#eciall to counter trategic moves

of !a and 2hina"

Indian naval #resence and domicannce in (outh Asia and Idnian ?cean also

hel#ed Israel to a great e@ect in its trade"


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2uurent

0'A to be materialised between Idnia and Israel

From Israel:

The sky is the limit, and India will get whatever defence platform or technology she wants.

He added: If India wants the sophisticated technology behind the Iron ome system to

tweak it as per its own sec!rity needs, even that is possible. "e are in this relationship for the

long ha!l and view it as a marriage. That is why we are clear that we will not sell to

#akistan.

India is the largest buer of Israeli defence hardware" 'he two nations also have

a 9oint woring grou# on counter-terrorism"

'he #revious government was somewhat squeamish about being seen getting

close to Israel due to domestic vote ban #olitics% but it is in Indias national

interest to dee#en relations with 'el Aviv while maintaining close ties with

!alestine and the Arab world"

India and Israel are working towards their first agreement to cooperate in the renewableenergy sector, e$panding their strategic relationship to energy sec!rity.

srael%s renewable energy p!sh has been driven by its lack of conventional hydrocarbon

so!rces in a neighbo!rhood which has been endowed with them. Israel plans to red!ce the

share of oil in its transport sector by &'( by )')' and by *'( by )')+. The co!ntry recently

discovered some gas.

Israel alargely depeandant on renewable reso!rces for reasons of !slim

neighbo!rhood.India strikes a tie with them on renewable reso!rces.

India%s -ational ction #lan on /limate /hange recommends that the co!ntry generate 0'(

of its power from solar, wind, hydropower and other renewable so!rces by )'0+, and 0+( by

)')'.


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Israel seeing Idnan he# in e:#loring gas "

'hins of distributing gas to !alestine% >ordan and g#t together with some $

so that the do not largel de#end on other uctuating sources"

"hile historically Israel has been an importer of nat!ral gas1most recently thro!gh therish2shkelon pipeline from 3gypt and a very small portion thro!gh a newly installed

floating and regasification terminal1 the discoveries of the Tamar and 4eviathan fields

5among several others6 sho!ld allow the co!ntry to become a significant e$porter of nat!ral

gas in the ne$t decade. There are competing proposals to develop pipelines and 4-7

5li8!efied nat!ral gas6 infrastr!ct!re to s!pport nat!ral gas e$ports, b!t deliberations abo!t

how Israel will get its nat!ral gas to market are ongoing.

India is now the largest buer of Israeli militar equi#ment% while Israel is Indiaslargest customer after Russia" In the ain Irrigation% formed after Indias >ainIrrigation acquired a on =revatt% Asia-!acianes"

9ntil the end of the /old "ar, India had maintained consistent s!pport for #alestinians.

ahatma 7andhi had po!red scorn on the idea of a ewish state in the iddle 3ast. ;!rely it

wo!ld be a crime against h!manity, he wrote in 0


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prime minister, awaharlal -ehr!, voted against Israel >oining the 9nited -ations in 0


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India%s Foreign inister ;!shma ;wara> insisted in !ly that there is absol!tely no change in

India%s policy towards #alestine, which is that we f!lly s!pport the #alestinian ca!se while

maintaining good relations with Israel. That might so!nd like fence2sitting, b!t it%s a policy

shared by all Indian governments of the past )' years.

Tho!gh India%s realpolitik shift is not the work of a partic!lar party or faction, India%s

res!rgent right2wing is far more ideologically sympathetic to Israel. #rime inister odi,

then2chief minister of 7!>arat with a rep!tation as an anti2!slim firebrand, visited Israel in

)''*. The Indian conversation abo!t Israel and #alestine has become tinged by India%s own

politics of religion and identity. India%s defenders of Israel see both nations engaged in a

common conflict against Islamist e$tremism, placing Hamas in a contin!!m that r!ns all the

way to ;o!th sia.

ccording to the conservative political writer ;wapan asg!pta, Israel has far more friends

in India than TG anchors and left2leaning policy correspondents realiAe. The same Internetarmy of right2wing Indians that s!pported odi%s election has mobiliAed in s!pport of Israel.

The Twitter hashtag India"ithIsrael trended across the co!ntry, galvaniAing real2life

rallies in s!pport of Israel%s campaign in 7aAa. /hetan Chagat, an a!thor who sells millions

of books and is widely seen as the voice of the yo!thf!l middle2class, spoke o!t in favor of

Israel. "hat is happening to 7aAa isnt fair, he tweeted, b!t sadly that is the only way

sometimes terrorist organiAations and their s!pporters learn to behave.

Israeli embassy spokesman Bhad Horsandi emphasiAed the shared e$perience of terrorism.

Israel, India and other like minded co!ntries, he told Indian media, are facing terror

threats from organiAations with similar radical ideology s!ch as l2Jaeda, I;I;, 4eT

K4ashkar2e2Taiba, the #akistan2based militant o!tfit acc!sed of committing the )''= !mbai

attacks and other atrocities in IndiaL and Hamas. These organiAations are committed to kill,

kidnap and terroriAe civilians and sho!ld be treated as terrorist organiAations.

#!blic opinion in India remains divided, however, and Indians of all stripes have e$pressed

horror at the Israeli siege of 7aAa. C!t the e$tent of p!blic s!pport in India for Israel%s c!rrent

offensive wo!ld have been !nimaginable a decade ago.

"here once the anti2colonial rhetoric of 7andhi and -ehr! might have g!ided Indianaffinities, in today%s enth!siasm for the war on terror we see traces of another )'th cent!ry

Indian ideolog!e.

Ginayak amodar ;avarkar was at odds with the sec!lar pl!ralism of India%s mainstream

independence str!ggle. His book, Hind!tva, provided the theoretical !nderpinning of the

Hind! nationalist tradition that event!ally birthed the C#.

Inspired by Dionism, ;avarkar believed that Hind!s and ews shared a history of oppression

at the hands of !slims, and that both deserved redress. It m!st be emphasiAed that

speaking historically, the whole of #alestine has been, from at least ),''' years before the


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birth of the !slim prophet, the national home of the ewish people, ;avarkar said.

In Hind!tva

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