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From: warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Israeli Indian Relations
Message-ID: <200@pluto.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 21:06:49 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  1 21:06:49 1985
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Summary: double standards

In article <425@eneevax.UUCP>, velu@eneevax.UUCP (Velu Sinha) writes:
> Also, India has grave problems with the way the S. Africans have treated
> non-Afrikaaners (sp?), or non Whites. Regardless of the PERSECUTION of the
> Blacks in S. Africa, Israel continues to be one of S. Africa's 5 largest
> trading partners, and vice-versa. 
> 
> The military cooperation between S. Africa and Israel is also well known -
> why should India have diplomatic relations with a country whose peers in the
> fellowship of nations happen to be such biggots (as in S. Africa)?

Who are SA's other four leading trading partners?  Does India have relations
with them?  Are the other countries that sell arms to SA also its "peers in
the fellowship of nations?"