I do not support Israel’s occupation and its atrocities in Palestinian land and will condemn any misconduct by Israel there. I support two state system. Having said that I feel that there is lack of intellectual debate within Pakistan about our policies regarding Israel. We need an objective evaluation of our policies towards Israel.
I believe Pakistan did not gain anything by opposing and not recognizing the state of Israel. If we did not recognize it because of Arab solidarity, then the Arab should have shown solidarity with our Kashmir cause but they didn’t. We did not get any other financial gains from not recognizing it. It the logic was that it had illegally occupied the land of Palestine, then we should have not recognized India too as it has illegally occupied Kashmir or for that matter any other country that has occupied a Muslim land. If we can recognize India and hold dialogue with it, the same we can do with Israel. By making Israel an enemy we have helped our enemies who may have or will get support from Israel. I don’t need to mention defense agreements between India and Israel.
If we recognize Israel IMO we will not lose anything. The benefits are several:
1. If we really care about Islamic brother hood, I think the best way to stop Israel from committing any crimes against Muslims is to recognize it and use diplomatic channels with it. Our recognition will give us leverage as it desperately want s recognition from Muslim states. In current situation we cannot say or do anything.
2. The powerful Jewish lobby in the US which will help us in pleading or serving our interests in the US . Jews also control the media and Pakistan could get positive media coverage. At the moment Jewish lobby supports the India lobby.
3. When we have good relations with Israel, we may able to learn from its technology and may stop it from defense deals with India which would be against our interests.
4. Israel will stop—if it is involved—any conspiracy against Pakistan.
But this is not the right time from recognizing Israel. This will give extremist elements a good cause to further their political goals. IMO after Pakistan bring situation under control, it should recognize Israel.
And should the Pakistan government risk the wrath of its current citizenship? I don't think that any government in Pakistan especially a vote-dependent democratic country would ever consider taking such a move especially at this time when anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiments are all time high in Pakistan.
While recognition would bring about some level of peace, I daresay Tel Aviv would not like to reduce its defense and strategic ties with New Delhi. One has to consider the potential that both Chinese and Indian markets can offer Israeli companies who also have recognized Israeli existence without putting forth any conditions as compared to what most Muslim countries think. It is very unlikely that after four decades of animosity with your country, they would ever hand over technology to you with such freedom.
If you noticed, this very putting forth of conditions is what led Delhi and Tel Aviv to forge stronger ties.
1) The condition of Muslim countries for having a separate Palestine homeland hardened the Israeli resolve.
2) Despite 4 decades of strong support for Palestine from New Delhi to Arab states, none of them ever supported the former in its conflict with your country in the UNO.
Apart from this, the barrage of conditions that Indians lay down their nuclear arms, revoke ties with Israel as well as forget Kashmir and only then expect support of Muslim countries for a permanent seat in UN security council was too much for Delhi to accept anyone attempting to dictate its foreign policies.
And these very sets of non-negotiable conditions makes both the countries have stronger strategic ties apart from the shared threat of terrorist organizations both in Middle East and South Asia joining hands.
Apart from these issues, IMO there is no way to solve the matter and
certainly not any war as it will yield disastrous results to both the sides. My analysis of a no-war solution:
1) Any attack on Israel will by Pakistan would earn them the wrath of United States if not NATO, which is more than enough alone.
2) Possibility of escalation to nuclear levels very much which would mean that even one nuclear missile if released would spell end of this world as all nuclear powers will not trust each other and launch their missiles.
3) Pakistani forces are already busy fighting within its borders with numerous terrorist organizations that are wrecking your country. By demanding a war on a totally unrelated entity, you would be stretching their capabilities thin.
4) Whether from Pakistani perspective or a neutral perspective; both Pakistan and Israel are equally powerful in terms of capabilities and this is cold hard truth when practically seen.
Those members who feel resting on past laurels of minor and inconsequentially unproductive achievements which had no effect on the outcome of those conflicts, need to understand that this is a totally different scenario. While last time Pakistani pilots engaged Israel when it was busy with 4 other countries' air forces, this time Islamabad would face the Israeli military full on face. Apart from United States' fury, even your neighbour New Delhi wouldn't take this conflict too kindly considering their closeness with Israel.
While Pakistan enjoys numerical superiority over Israel, the latter enjoys a huge technological superiority over the former. Therefore, a war would be an end to both the countries.
Therefore, the only way possible and susceptible to yield any results for Pakistan if at all it feels it necessary to engage with Israel over all its current domestic terrorism issues, talks and diplomatic channels are the only way forward.