Indo - Palestine Relations: A Historical Study

Abstract

Anti-imperialistic forces within the country and the Muslim population of India wanted to actively support the cause of the Palestinians; Harijan, 11 November, 1938, Mahatma Gandhi’s statement on the Palestine and the Jewish question. Yasser Arafat, President of PLO visited India on 20-22 November 1997 and again paid a one day visit to India on 10 April 1999. India is the first non-Arab country, which recognized the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s to Palestinian personnel for specialised training courses during the financial year 1998-99, where 58 Palestinian officers completed their training. In March 2006, a group of Palestinian refugees from Iraq arrived in India.