An official of a Hindu opposition party and the Arab Students Association of India have both condemned last month’s Moslem summit conference in Rabat, Morocco at which India’s attempt to participate was rebuffed. India this week recalled her senior envoys from Morocco and Jordan in retaliation for her exclusion from the Rabat parley.
Prakash Veer Shastri, general secretary of the Indian Revolutionary Party, declared in Jaipur that the only way India could avenge its “humiliation” was by establishing diplomatic relations with Israel. He told the closing session of a conference of the Rajasthan state unit of his party that if any other nation had suffered the “ignominy” of Rabat its Government would soon have fallen.
The secretary of the Arab Students Association said in a letter published in the Hindustan Times that “the Muslim leaders at Rabat attempted to make our struggle against world Zionism a fight between Muslims and Jews. We are not against Jews. We are not against any race or religion. But we refuse to surrender our land to foreign occupiers.” The letter claimed that there were large numbers of Jews opposed to the Zionist policies followed by the rulers of Israel and that there were many Christians among Arab guerrilla fighters against Israel.
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