The India's Policy towards Arab-Israeli Conflict 1967-1973

Abstract

    Since India’s independence in 1947, the Indian leadership has realized the fact that it has stable political and diplomatic interests in West Asia, and that the Indian subcontinent and West Asia have suffered for centuries from colonial domination, which created a consensus between the leaders of the two regions. The outcome of that consensus was Indian opposition to colonialism and the forcible seizure of other people's lands, as India worked to strengthen historical ties with Arab countries and supported them in the liberation war against Western colonialism. India’s policy towards West Asia was mainly based on promoting Indian interests in the region by virtue of geographical neighborhood.               

In light of this, this research came to shed light on the Indian policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict 1967-1973, as it was divided into three main axes, the first dealt with Indian diplomacy towards Palestine and Egypt until 1967, while the second axis dealt with India's position on the June War 1967, while the third axis discussed India's position on the Arab-Israeli conflict (1968-1973).                                                          

      The importance of research lies in his attempt to uncover the nature of that Indian policy towards that conflict and the results that came out of it first, and the extent of its benefit and consideration secondly, so as to ensure that the whole history is transformed into a contemporary one in which we address the problems of the present and draw the contours of the future with it. However, the research was limited to the years (1967-1973), as the first date represented the outbreak of the June 1967 war and the results that resulted from it. While the second date represented the outbreak of the October 1973 war, and al-Hindi’s position on it.