The history of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to India, which began on Sunday and lasts for six days, seeks to strengthen relations between the two sides and strengthen the presence of his country there, but his efforts clash with the history of Israel Black in its dealings with India, Conference "Indian opposition Rahul Gandhi, to take a sudden decision to reject the meeting of the Israeli Prime Minister.
Gandhi's refusal to meet was due to India's accusation of Israel's attempt to assassinate late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1960. Nehru was then prime minister and the Israeli occupation tried to target him during his visit to Gaza through his warplanes, Indian historians and experts say.
Moments after Netanyahu's plane landed at Delhi airport, the "Congress" party on Twitter criticized what he called the "embrace diplomacy" of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who greeted his Israeli counterpart at the airport with great hospitality. But Indian diplomatic circles in favor of rapprochement with Israel were quick to criticize Rahul Gandhi's decision.
"Rahul Gandhi's decision is a short-sighted strategic step that could affect the national consensus on Israel," said India's Indian Express, an expert on India-Israel relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, PR Kumaraswamy. "He said.
Some also mentioned Sonia Gandhi, the former president of the Congress party and the widow of Rajiv Gandhi and Rahul's mother, in 2003 when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited India. They considered Rahul Gandhi's decision not to meet Netanyahu as a "stark contrast" to what his mother had done in the past.
Referring to the Indian accusations of the Israeli occupation of the attempted assassination of Jawaharlal Nehru, the author of the event, Vijay Prashad, told the frontline magazine, "Nehru was at the headquarters of the United Nations Emergency Force in Gaza.
A United Nations aircraft boarded from Gaza in 1960. In the air, Israeli fighters intercepted his aircraft within what the Israeli army later claimed was one mile inside Israeli territory. "" There is no description of this event, but one should assume that it was not far away What often happened to the United Nations aircraft flying over Gaza. "Nehru had gone to Gaza and met with the United Nations Emergency Force, whose commander at the time was an Indian general.
"When Nehru returned to India, during a meeting of the Indian Parliament on August 1, 1960, he spoke of how Israeli fighter jets had chased the UN aircraft into the air, saying that this action was unjustified because the Israeli authorities were aware of the visit To Gaza ".
"Nehru was able to use these details to explain why India had to think seriously before making a decision to establish normal relations with Israel. When the issue of sending an ambassador to Israel was raised on 22 December 1960, Nehru said that this issue is very complex In important and serious international issues, including the lack of respect for the Indian prime minister. "
The historical tension between India and Israel does not depend on this incident, but the name of Israeli intelligence Mossad emerged in the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the father of Rahul Gandhi, in 1991. The final report of the commission of inquiry into the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi focused on a conspiracy International relations, and the relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency, the Mossad and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
In a July 20, 1998 report, the report of the Commission of Inquiry indicated a major international conspiracy, involvement of foreign intelligence agencies, and leaders of some extremist Sikh organizations in the assassination. The report revealed that they had actively cooperated with the LTTE and key Indian personnel in the immediate period leading up to the assassination.
The report mentioned a telegram dated September 11, 1991, sent by the Indian ambassador in Tunis to the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which contained a key memorandum from Yasser Arafat. According to the cable, "Arafat had information that Rajiv Gandhi's enemies would use the election period to get rid of him, and Arafat obtained this information from inside Israel and his European sources." These sources pointed out that the Tamil Tigers and the Sikhs would try to harm Gandhi, , Hostile forces from outside India may also try. "
As mentioned in the final report of the Commission of Inquiry, a recorded memorandum on the conversation between the then Indian Foreign Minister, Mochkond Dubi, and the Palestinian Ambassador to India, dated 6 June 1991, stated: "The Palestinian Ambassador told me that they saw the movement of Mossad agents in India, He said that if one was looking for a link, it was the link between the CIA, the Mossad and the LTTE. "
