Journal of Critical Reviews ISSN- 2394-5125 Vol 7 , Issue 9, 2020 INDIA’S ISRAEL POLICY: FROM NEHRU TO MODI Mumtaz Ahmad Shah1 ,Dr. Tabraz2 1Mumtaz Ahmad Shah is a Ph.D. research scholar in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He can be reached at
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[email protected] Received: 12.03.2020 Revised: 10.04.2020 Accepted: 13.05.2020 Abstract India’s Israel policy had been subjected to various push factors. However, the rise of Indian neoliberals and Hindu nationalists facilitated the progress in bilateral relations with Israel. In a short period, this bilateral relationship has become a strategic partnership in making. Notably, ties with Israel has received a new dynamics under the premiership of Narendra Modi. His government has overcome the past modicum of cautious and celebrated relations with Israel, both diplomatically and politically. This paper will examine India’s Israel policy from a historical perspective to explain why and how India maintained for an extended period limited relations with Israel and how the post-1990s new domestic dynamics facilitated the transformation of India’s Israel policy. Keywords: India, Israel, Indian neoliberals, Hindu nationalists, Narendra Modi, © 2020 by Advance Scientific Research. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31838/jcr.07.09.163 INTRODUCTION further into the Soviet orbit, and the two sides became quasi- The foreign policy is subjected to international constraints, military allies after the signing of the treaty of friendship and where the gap between aspirations and ability is often so cooperation in 1971[5].