PALESTINE AND INDIA
A TIME TO RE-THINK, & RE-ORIENT
OUR POLICY
©SARASIJ MAJUMDER
WHAT INDIA DID, AND DOES:
In 1974, India became the first Non-Arab State to recognize
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the sole and legitimate representative
of the Palestinian people. In 1988, India became one of the first countries to
recognize the Palestinian State. In 1996, India opened its Representative
Office in Gaza, which was later shifted to Ramallah in 2003.
India co-sponsored the draft resolution on “the right of
Palestinians to self-determination” during the 53rd session of the United
Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and voted in favor of it.
In 2011, India voted in favor of Palestine becoming a full
member of the UNESCO. India co-sponsored and voted in favor of the UNGA
Resolution on November 29, 2012 that enabled Palestine to become a ‘non-member
Observer state’ at the UN without voting rights. India supported the Bandung
Declaration on Palestine at the Asian African Commemorative Conference in April
2015 as well as supported the installation of the Palestinian flag at UN's
premises in September 2015.
The first ever Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) between India
and Palestine was held in Ramallah in November 2016. The JCM was co-chaired by
Shri M.J. Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs and Dr. Riad Malki,
Foreign Minister of Palestine.
Apart from the strong political support to the Palestinian
cause at bilateral and international levels, India has extended various forms
of economic assistance to the Palestinian people.
India, Brazil, South Africa (IBSA) Fund has also financed
five projects in Palestine, namely Indoor Multipurpose Sports Complex in
Ramallah, Phase I and Phase II of Setting Up of Cardiothoracic Unit of
Palestinian Red Crescent Society's Al Quds hospital in Gaza, Atta Habib Medical
Centre in Gaza and Rehabilitation Centre for People with Mental Disabilities in
Nablus.
At the Extraordinary Ministerial Conference of the UNRWA
held in Rome in March 2018, India announced the enhancement of annual
contribution to the UNRWA from US$ 1.25 million to US$ 5 million from 2018-19.
ICCR: India offers 50 ICCR scholarships for Palestinian
students annually for higher studies in Graduate, Post-Graduate and Ph.D.
courses in India.
ITEC: 150 slots are offered to Palestine annually under the
Indian Technical & Economic Cooperation Programme (ITEC) for training
courses in India aimed at capacity building and skill enhancement. More than
1000 Palestinian nationals have availed ITEC training in India.
INDIA CONTRIBUTES USD 5.0 MM /year to UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND
WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST (UNRWA) SINCE 2018.
WHAT INDIA
GET IN RETURN:
On 12 June, 2022, Radical Palestinian Islamic
preacher Nidhal Siam, speaking at a gathering, referred to Hindus as
“filthy cow worshipers,” and exhorted Pakistani Muslims to attack Indians
on the border. Siam said during a gathering at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Palestine
that the only response to the “Cow-Worshiping” Hindus against the Prophet
Muhammad is to declare Jihad to destroy them.
The Palestinian preacher said, “Hindus, you filthy Hindus,
Muhammad is the master of all people.” He further says, “The infidels take
turns in waging this war against Muslims. First, it was America with its
aggression then along came Sweden with its Kidnapping of Muslim Children.
France and Russia also attacked Muslims many times, then there is China with
its crimes, and now the Hindu cow-worshipers, who have destroyed mosques,
killed Muslims and destroyed their villages, now they slander the Master of
Mankind, PBUH.”
Openly asking for Jihad against the Hindus, the preacher
said, “The one and only reaction to such a thing is to declare Jihad for the
sake of Allah and to open up battle fronts for fighting.”
Also, he pulled in Pakistan and
urged the Muslims of Pakistan
to fight with India. He said, “As for you the people of Pakistan, you have a greater duty than others
in fighting the Hindus. They are right there on your border occupying parts of
your land and killing your people.”
Many
such mentally deranged Moulavi is in Palestine, who are hurting the case of The
State. Palestine must control them.
PALESTINE
is a yet to be approved ISLAMIC STATE, controlled by various factions of TERROR
ORGANIZATIONS, and Radical Mullas, HAMAS being the largest one.
HAMAS can’t survive without support of PALESTINIANS. And other Muslim Countries like IRAN, QATER
etc. dictates the policy of Palestine. Palestine is worse than PAKISTAN. HAMAS is only other
face of PALESTINE.
GOI SHALL ADVISE PALESTINE PRESIDENT Mr.
MAHMOUD ABBAS THAT ANTI-INDIAN PROPAGANDAS ARE NOT GENERATED FROM THERE
REFERENCES: -
1.0 India-Palestine Bilateral Relations by MEA
2.0 The Indian
Journal of Political Science-Vol.
74, No. 1 (January - March, 2013), pp. 159-172
3.0 The lecture of Islamic
preacher Nidhal Siam I available in internet.
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