Mukherjee quotes famous words by Gandhi; says India’s’s ties with Israel independent of its relations with ‘Palestine.’
JPost
Even as the current wave of terror rages on, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled to travel from Jordan to the Palestinian Authority on Monday, and then come to Israel the next day for the first ever visit here by an Indian head of state.
This is also the first visit to Jordan by an Indian president. India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is expected to visit Israel in the coming months.
Speaking in Amman at the University of Jordan, where he received an honorary doctorate, Mukherjee was quoted by the Press Trust of India as saying Sunday that “India’s traditional support to the Palestinian cause remains steadfast and unwavering while we pursue strong relations with Israel. Our bilateral relations [with Israel] are independent of our relations with Palestine.”
In recent months New Delhi, which has pursued closer ties with Israel since the election of Narendra Modi in 2014, has abstained – rather than vote against Israel – in three UN votes over the last several months, leading to concern among some Palestinians that they were losing a reliable ally.
The Indian president seemed intent on dispelling that notion in his address Sunday, quoting from Mahatma Gandhi in saying, “Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English and France to the French.” Gandhi held a negative position toward Zionism, writing in 1938 that “The cry for a national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me.”
“India,” Mukherjee said, “supports a negotiated solution resulting in a sovereign, independent, viable and united State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, living within secure and recognized borders.”
Mukherjee is scheduled to travel on Monday to Ramallah for meetings with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and other top Palestinian officials.
During his overnight stay in the PA, Mukherjee is also scheduled to be awarded an honorary doctorate from Al Quds University, and inaugurate the Jawaharlal Nehru Secondary School at Abu Dis, named after India’s first prime minister. A visit to the Temple Mount has evidently been scuttled because of security precautions.
The Indian president is scheduled to begin his formal program in Israel on Tuesday afternoon with a wreath laying ceremony at the tomb of Theodor Herzl, followed by a visit to Yad Vashem. In the evening he will host a reception at the King David Hotel for representatives of the Indian Jewish community in Israel.
On Wednesday he will begin his day with a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin, followed by a speech to the Knesset. He is also scheduled to meet with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, Opposition head Isaac Herzog, and former president Shimon Peres before attending a state dinner in his honor at the President’s residence.
On Thursday he will receive an honorary doctorate from Hebrew University, sign anagreement on academic cooperation, and then meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Mukherjee’s visit is coming at a time of close cooperation between Israel and India, and is symbolic not only of improved ties, but also the fact that New Dehli no longer feels the need to keep these ties and the bilateral cooperation low-profile and out of the public eye.
6 thoughts on “India pres. ahead of Israel trip: ‘Palestine belongs to Arabs like England belongs to English’”
Gag….
Hooray for Ghandi!
Yes, bunch of ass hole Indians. You can kill the Palestinians but we can be friends any way. I do not trust Indian people they are so proud and arrogant, they can shake hands and stave you.
aka “having two bob each way”. Honest Injun! I can remember when Indians were burning Pakistanis alive for daring to live on land claimed by Indians.
this one paragraph from the article sums up Israel- created by Terrorist Racists like Herzl, and other Jewish terrorists who blew up the King David Hotel, killing hundreds of Arabs and British personnel, and the mandatory Ritul at the Yad Vashem for the Mythical Holohoax tribute- all this is so important India’s leaders to take part in as an initiation ceremony into accepting Israel and world Jewry’s dominance in the world stage- Do you know of any other country that mandates world leaders to carry out these rituals- perhaps the US should demand such rituals for Kennedy, or UK for Winston Churchill or France for De Gaulle!!
The Hindu BJP are themselves a bunch of Zionists with supremacist tendencies, believing themselves and their Brahmin Caste to be superior to everyone else. There are some who allege that the Hindus who came to India are related to a Jewish Tribe- this I recall an indigenous Indian professor[non Hindu, I think he was a Jain, sorry cannot remember his name and I no longer have the link] discuss this topic on a Hesham Tillawi show years ago.
The BJP Hindu Party are terrorists well trained by Israel which they admire and adopted their political ideologies as well as sharing their deep hatred for Muslims and other Ethnic Groups within India. India is a hypocrite when it comes to talking about democracy and terrorism, with its ruling elite dominating the wealth of the country whilst the vast majority are poor, and where children and women are abused, sold as slaves or labourers!
The highest number of terrorist attacks within India are carried out by the Hindu BJP Party, and then the Maoists.
India owes its Nuclear Facilities to Israel that also trains India’s Military, and Police Forces. and buys a lot of Israeli Arms. Many Israeli soldiers apparently take holidays to India [as well as Kenya where it is said they are all drugged up and abuse women]
Modi is staunch BJP Hindu and like Israelis and Satanyahu, he has the blood of Muslims on his hands
I cannot accept the President’s comment that “India’s traditional support to the Palestinian cause remains steadfast and unwavering while we pursue strong relations with Israel. Our bilateral relations [with Israel] are independent of our relations with Palestine.”
This is political doublespeak and hypocrisy- You cannot support the Palestinian cause at the same time have strong relations with the very country oppressing Palestinians.
Here we have India in adulation of Israel the Racist Terrorist Entity that India is so happy to have such close ties with and share the same anti Muslim propaganda
Modi and its government are just Israeli puppet. This man is a criminal who, under his rule in Gujarat, thousands of Moslems were killed. A true allay of Nethaniahu. But just wait a few years and Indians, in particular the Hindus who in general support him, will realize what it means to be Israelis toilet paper: their country will be left bankrupt and they will be left penniless without even the loin cloth round their waistline.
Gag….
Hooray for Ghandi!
Yes, bunch of ass hole Indians. You can kill the Palestinians but we can be friends any way. I do not trust Indian people they are so proud and arrogant, they can shake hands and stave you.
aka “having two bob each way”. Honest Injun! I can remember when Indians were burning Pakistanis alive for daring to live on land claimed by Indians.
this one paragraph from the article sums up Israel- created by Terrorist Racists like Herzl, and other Jewish terrorists who blew up the King David Hotel, killing hundreds of Arabs and British personnel, and the mandatory Ritul at the Yad Vashem for the Mythical Holohoax tribute- all this is so important India’s leaders to take part in as an initiation ceremony into accepting Israel and world Jewry’s dominance in the world stage- Do you know of any other country that mandates world leaders to carry out these rituals- perhaps the US should demand such rituals for Kennedy, or UK for Winston Churchill or France for De Gaulle!!
The Hindu BJP are themselves a bunch of Zionists with supremacist tendencies, believing themselves and their Brahmin Caste to be superior to everyone else. There are some who allege that the Hindus who came to India are related to a Jewish Tribe- this I recall an indigenous Indian professor[non Hindu, I think he was a Jain, sorry cannot remember his name and I no longer have the link] discuss this topic on a Hesham Tillawi show years ago.
The BJP Hindu Party are terrorists well trained by Israel which they admire and adopted their political ideologies as well as sharing their deep hatred for Muslims and other Ethnic Groups within India. India is a hypocrite when it comes to talking about democracy and terrorism, with its ruling elite dominating the wealth of the country whilst the vast majority are poor, and where children and women are abused, sold as slaves or labourers!
The highest number of terrorist attacks within India are carried out by the Hindu BJP Party, and then the Maoists.
India owes its Nuclear Facilities to Israel that also trains India’s Military, and Police Forces. and buys a lot of Israeli Arms. Many Israeli soldiers apparently take holidays to India [as well as Kenya where it is said they are all drugged up and abuse women]
Modi is staunch BJP Hindu and like Israelis and Satanyahu, he has the blood of Muslims on his hands
I cannot accept the President’s comment that “India’s traditional support to the Palestinian cause remains steadfast and unwavering while we pursue strong relations with Israel. Our bilateral relations [with Israel] are independent of our relations with Palestine.”
This is political doublespeak and hypocrisy- You cannot support the Palestinian cause at the same time have strong relations with the very country oppressing Palestinians.
Here we have India in adulation of Israel the Racist Terrorist Entity that India is so happy to have such close ties with and share the same anti Muslim propaganda
Please read this article on Gandhi and Zionism. The Man was killed by them.
http://www.twf.org/News/Y2001/0815-GandhiZionism.html
Modi and its government are just Israeli puppet. This man is a criminal who, under his rule in Gujarat, thousands of Moslems were killed. A true allay of Nethaniahu. But just wait a few years and Indians, in particular the Hindus who in general support him, will realize what it means to be Israelis toilet paper: their country will be left bankrupt and they will be left penniless without even the loin cloth round their waistline.