In this extensive study, Indian journalist and former diplomat Godfrey Jansen reviews in detail the origins and development of relations between Israel and the countries of Asia. Jansen analyzes the causes and motives behind changes in these relations. The study also reveals how Asians came gradually to view Zionism as an alien ideology and to regard Israel as a foreign force in the Asian continent. He argues that the cooling of Israeli-Asian relations coincided with the growth and entrenchment of these views of Zionism and of Israel. The study concludes that this outlook on Israel, which represented it as a non-Asian body implanted in Asia, was what led to a distance between Israel and most Asian countries, rather than propaganda and economic pressure.