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The Israeli ambassador in Colombo, Yitzhak Navon, condemned Sri Lanka’s hobnobbing with Arab terrorist organizations that were plotting to exterminate the State of Israel. Yet two months after Navon made this statement, in a clear indication of the PLO’s success at delegitimizing Israel outside the Middle East, Bandaranaike severed diplomatic ties with Israel on the grounds that it had purportedly violated UN Security Council Resolution 242. Her decision was highly praised by Arab leaders as a bold act made on behalf of the cause of Palestinian “liberation.” Ties between Israel and Sri Lanka were restored under Sri Lanka’s first executive president, Junius Richard Jayewardene, when the country began to suffer from terrorism committed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 1977. Cabinet minister Lalith Athulathmudali, who had worked as a law lecturer at Hebrew University in Jerusalem; as well as Jayewardene’s son, Ravi Jayewardene, were determined that Sri L

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