Well every1 naturally keeps talking about Pakistan. but lets talk about Israel... why do they care if we recognize them or not? what benefits they stand to gain from it, we are not Iran and we don't share a border with them either.
"We might be an arms customer"- well it is true that they have state of the art weapons but we will not be offered those, and how does downgraded Israeli weapons compare to downgraded European and Chinese i don't know. so how much potential sales/proffit they will be able to make?
Israel is worried about our nuclear weapons but recognizing them doesn't change the fact that we have nuclear weapons.
We do not support or supply Hezbollah or any such thing that will stop from our acceptance of Israel.
So my questions is why would Israel care what we think of them?
And on the "pakistan was also created argument", well once I said that to someone and they said pakistan was made for Muslims of India who had been there for centuries, where in the case of Israel local Muslims were kicked out and Jews from all over the world were brought there.
However if we think that way then USA was the land of Red Indians and Australia was the land of Aboriginal people and so on which was taken by the British. however we cant keep talking like that. Although its important not to forget the past its also important to think about future and build your own interests accordingly.
My opinion on the matter of recognizing Israel--- well if our government made a wise decision by evaluating what we stand to gain or lose using wisdom and intellect and having grand vision, then i would respect the current decision but if its just based on ignorance and hatred then that's not a clever way to make foreign policy.
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