In his memoirs, Eliyahu Eilat, who was to become Israel’s first ambassador in Washington, described his activities in 1947 during the Palestine debate at the United Nations. It led to the resolution to partition the area. At the time, he was head of the Jewish Agency’s political bureau in Washington.
“India’s delegation voiced pro-Arab views, but the Zionists were convinced that India would support the Jewish state due to three points of commonality – the struggle against the British; their location in Asia; and the rebirth of a slumbering, ancient civilization. Albert Einstein was recruited for this lobbying effort.
“The physicist wrote to Nehru that ‘it would be moral for the Jews to receive this small patch of land on which they were once sovereign.’ ‘Nationalist policy, regrettably, is mainly egotistic. Each state thinks about its own self-interests,’ Nehru responded to Einstein, reminding the physicist that India had 13 million Muslims.”
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And we are reminded that all three countries (I am including Pakistan) are members of the “Atomic Bomb Club”.
While an accurate factoid, I would be remiss if I did not point out that despite having a larger population of Muslims than Pakistan, India today is a key economic partner for Israel, popular tourist destination for Israeli youth, and a safe and welcoming home for its small but historically influential Jewish population. Canada could benefit if we could replicate the Israeli-Indian research and technology collaborations. Indira Gandhi (Nehru’s granddaughter) had a Jewish General in the battlefield in the last Indo-Pak war.
Mike Sky