11-05-2005, 04:08 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Ravish+Nov 5 2005, 12:37 PM-->QUOTE(Ravish @ Nov 5 2005, 12:37 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->India should continue cultivating its relationship with Israel. It is in the larger security and strategic interest of India to do so and of late Pakistan has also fallen inline. The meeting between the Pakistan Foreign Minister and the Foreign Minister of Israel a few weeks ago, arranged by the good offices of Turkey is the most recent development on this issue.
In the first few decades of our existence as a Republic, the political leadership felt that any diplomatic interaction will result in the alienation of the entire Middle East, particularly, the oil producing Arabian countries against India. They were also not sure what the vast number of Muslim voters in India will think of the move and what will be their subsequent action at the polling booth.
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In the first few decades of our existence as a Republic, the political leadership felt that any diplomatic interaction will result in the alienation of the entire Middle East, particularly, the oil producing Arabian countries against India. They were also not sure what the vast number of Muslim voters in India will think of the move and what will be their subsequent action at the polling booth.
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