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Why Pakistan do not recognise ISrael

1. Pakistan do not supports terrorism

Pakistan always talked about the rights of Palestine on each and every forum.

In post Khilafat Movement scenario, All India Muslim League kept staunch support to Palestine and
rights of the Arabs. The decade of 1930's witnessed significant developments on Palestine under
leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. League, under Jinnah, not only broadened its basis among the
masses but also took up Palestine issue through various measures inside and outside India. Jinnah and
Allama Muhammad Iqbal put Palestine issue on top of agenda list of the meetings.

Just a few days after partition, Jinnah announced to send a delegation to Cairo under Abdur Rehman
Siddiqui to participate in Inter-Parliamentary World Congress on Palestine to be held in last week of
August 1947. Furthermore, Zafrullah Khan was sent to represent Pakistan in the United Nations. He
attended deliberations of UN Ad Hoc Committee over Palestine and vividly declared Balfour Declaration
as illegitimate and clearly rejected partition of Palestine that Pakistan would not accept that unjust plan.

2. Attitude of Pakistan towards Israel

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Israel's diplomatic mission in Washington received information that
Pakistan was trying to provide military assistance to the Palestinians alongside rumours that a Pakistani
military battalion would be sent to Palestine to fight the Israelis. Pakistan had supposedly bought
250,000 rifles in Czechoslovakia that were apparently meant for the Arabs. A later discovery revealed
that Pakistan had bought three military-grade aircraft in Italy for the Egyptians.

The Pakistan Air Force sent a limited few of its fighter pilots to engage the Israelis in the 1967 Six-Day
War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, greatly bolstering the Palestinians who virtually had no foundation to
fight the superior Israeli forces and consequently suffered repeated defeats. A Pakistani fighter pilot,
Saiful Azam, had shot down at least four Israeli fighter planes during the Six-Day War.[38] After the Yom
Kippur War, Pakistan and the PLO signed an agreement for training PLO officers in Pakistani military
institutions.

3.Israel’s Good will relations with Pakistan’s rival


when Mossad failed to stop Pakistan's nuclear weapons program from making major developments, a
plan to bomb Pakistani nuclear facilities in a similar fashion to Operation Opera was authorized by Israel.
The Israelis made contact with India in an effort to gain support and secure a launching point for Israel's
aircraft, but did not get the response that was expected. India refused to allow Israeli aircraft to station
on its soil whereas Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency had discovered the plan and
prepared retaliatory measures to bomb strategic sites in Israel. India did not offer its support which
thwarted any plans of the destruction of Pakistan's nuclear program, which Israel had hoped to carry out
in a joint Indian-Israeli operation to avoid taking full blame.

4.Issue of Kashmir

After the landmark ‘peace deal’ was signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), brokered
by the US, the Gulf state of Bahrain has agreed to fully normalize its relations with Israel as well.

Bahrain is only the fourth country in the Middle East, after the UAE, Egypt, and Jordan – to recognize
Israel since its founding in 1948. However, Pakistan’s stance has ‘remained the same’ on the issue.

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“Pakistan’s position on Palestine remains the same,” spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri of the Foreign
Office of Pakistan said while commenting on the Bahrain and Israel peace deal.

“Peace and stability in the Middle East is Pakistan’s priority. There has been no change in Pakistan’s
principled position on Palestine. We are committed to recognizing all the rights of the Palestinian people,
including the right to vote,” he added.

Analysts have raised questions on Pakistan’s perpetual boycott of Israel blaming its incoherent foreign
policy. According to Sumeera Asghar Roy, a PhD candidate at the China Agricultural University in Beijing
and Hassan F. Virk, a Lecturer of Politics and Development Studies at the University of Lahore, Pakistan’s
policymakers “succumb to socio-religious pressures, intensifying policy volatility, and that volatility read
as a vulnerability opens Pakistan up to manipulation by stronger world powers.”

Religion has been central to Pakistan’s decade long rhetoric on the Israeli-Palestinian issue but with Arab
countries now resolving issues with Israel is a blow to Pakistan’s stance which still remains unchanged.

“Pakistan is greatly perturbed by the introverted policies followed by Saudi Arabia and its neighbors with
regard to India and simply can’t comprehend the inaction of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
(OIC) over Kashmir,” wrote Khaled Ahmed, consulting editor, Newsweek Pakistan.

“They can’t grasp the Arab inwardness that ignores Kashmir, which they often equate with the
Palestinians living under ‘Israeli tyranny’.”

Experts believe that the dilemma that Pakistan is stuck at is that if they give in to Israel then a precedent
would be established on the Kashmir issue as well.
According to Nirupama Subramanian, talking to BBC, when the constitutional status of Jammu and
Kashmir was changed a year ago, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, only fought a verbal battle,
which caused a great deal of public frustration with the government..

Experts talking to the EurAsian Times stated that if Pakistan recognizes Israel, not only would Islamabad’s
‘Mision Kashmir’ get jeopardized but Pakistan’s state policy of supporting Kashmir and Palestine and the
pledge of taking revenge from India and Israel would fall flat and could create upheaval in the country.
The effort has to be gradual.

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