I am not alluding to recognizing Israel; my beef is with the logic offered by another member.
I just wonder why WE continue to recognize India given its designs against Pakistan and absolute lack of commitment to address the issue of Kashmir. Israel does not even remotely compare to Indians in this regard.
That is fine, but understand following:
1. Jews are native to Palestine (2000+ years of history)
2. Israel is a European creation much like so many other modern nation-states.
3. Existence of Israel was legitimized by UN much like in the case of so many other modern nation-states.
Let us all get our facts straight for once.
First you must recognize a question of principle. It is a difficult one to answer. If a people in the past were living somewhere but were displaced by force and after that another people came and acclimatized to that place, do the first people have the right to take back their lands by
force?
On the face of it the answer is a simple Yes, but the implications are great and open to much misuse, who will prove if they are the same people, ethnicities have been fluid over history, then Islam/ christianity have been major disruptors in the 'known' sort of history of peoples (~2000 years). Who has the right to UK, Germany? In that region who were the locals, who were the romans?
Therefore the unfortunate answer should be a No. They should have the right to return but under peaceful terms. Israel in its current form didnt do that, Indian hindutva is not claiming its hindu heritage back peacefully. Sure they can add Ashoka, Gupta to their books but why take Mugals and Dehli sultanate out as if its not indian history.
Why do we recognize India and not Israel, because in contemporary times one was born out of a legitimate partition, the other was born out of annexations, even the USA and UK could not answer what were the borders of Isreal to date. Trump stood next to Yahu not many months ago and said I would like to see you stop making more settlements.
Your line of argument unfortunately is very common in Pakistan, but it is one that doesnt stand up to rigor I must say.
