You have visited Turkey many times but, have you been to Israel?
No. Mostly because instinctively I don't like Israel. But I think I might take the plunge and go. i did get to know some Israeli students at university.
You see I don't look at Israel from religious prism. Just think for a second. If the invaders/settler had been Muslims from Yemen or Muslims from Pakistan do you think things would have been any differant? The Palestinans would still have fought and considered the invaders as enemies. When Iraq invaded Kuwait it cut no ice with Kuwaitis that the invaders were Muslim Arab Iraqis. If Afghan Muslim invade part of Pakistan or all of Pakistan I think the fact that the invaders would be Muslim would not reduce the angst of Pakistani's. When you get fcuked it is of little comfort that the weapon was halal.
What annoys me most about Israel is that in fact it was the latest and last European colonial project of population replacement done under the guise of Judaism. This came after the successfull European settlement projects in North, Central, South Americas, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand.
This involved settlemt of Poles, Russians, Latvians, Slovaks, Germans, Ukranians, Belorussians etc in Palestine and in fact turning that place into a Little Europe. Palestinians are Semites and mostly Muslim or Christian. They actually are more closer to the original Jewish Semites of judea then these European invaders.
Incidentally the Palestinian Christians have as much animus against these settlers as Muslim Palestinians underlining the fact that this is a conflict between a European invaders and native Palestinians with religion merely coincidemtal.
But be that as it may in 2021 it has happened. Pakistan not accepting Israel will hurt Israel as much as you hiolding your fart inside will damage your neighbour. It has no effect. The crucial countries in order of importance to Israel are and their status -
- Egypt accepted
- Turkey accepted
- Jordan accepted
- UAE accepted
- Oman accepted
- Saudia Arabia not accepted but moving toward that.
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- Pakistan comes way to the bottom.
The best way forward is to accept Israel and the influene of the combined neughbouring countries including Pakistan would be reasonable with the possibility to mitigate israel's behavour. I believe this is the path UAE has chosen. Sort of create a combined need for each other and thus garner influence.
But non of this will cut anything. Pakistan will persist in doing the wrong thing. After all over 70 years later what has Pakistan done that was right? It just litany of mistakes over the decades. Thus look at the state of the country today. Forward on the path like blind idiot.
