Re: [IslamCity] Should Bangladesh Recognize Israil ?

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 Dear Br S. Hannan,   Assalamu Alaikum
 
Ramadan Mubarak to you and all other Rufaqua of BD
 
Your arguments not to recognize Israel Stae are sound and are based on logic and bare facts that are visible even to naked eyes. But the key point to refuse the recognotion is missing that Israel is the illigitmate child of Birtish hypocracy. It was the result of Belfour award that was given to Wiseman in 1917. Second thing and that is most important is that Anglo-US-Russian hegemony conspired to create this land in the heart of muslim world, on Muslim land  and gave recognition to a state that was establshed on Muslim land and they manipulated the world politics to give it "recognition". In fact, the State of Israel is being groomed, nurtured and protected by these vested interests as the "police state" of America in the heart of Muslim world. Further, the standing and continuation of the Israeli State, must be sunderstood NOW in the light of President Bush's Speech that he delivered on October 10, 2005 in Washington. The continuation of Isreal State is in the interest of USA to perpetuate its game plan of his so-called "War on Terrorism" which in pure and simple words it is his war against Islam as a system of life. 
 
Hence, no Muslim country worth its name, including Pakistan and BD shoul even think of recognizing Israel today or tomorrow. That is the end of it. Hope the people of BD will try to understand the game plan of Bush-Balair-Zionism and resolve as how to get rid of this "Yahudi Chakrant".
 
Shamim Siddiq
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Should Bangladesh Recognize Israil ? 
 
 
Shah Abdul Hannan*
 
 
 
The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, a few days back, met the Israeli Foreign Minister in Istanbul. This has brought to light that Pakistan was negotiating secretly with Israel for quite a long time. The major political parties and alliances of Pakistan, namely Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian (Benzir Bhutto), Pakistan Muslim League (Newaz Sharif), Muttahida Majlis Amal (MMA) and ARD called a nation-wide strike  in protest of the meeting by Pakistan?s Foreign Minister with Israeli Foreign Minister.. Press reports suggest that the strike was successfully observed. The opposition in Pakistan immediately after this meeting sat together and formed a committee to decide the future course in view of the action of the government.
 
In this backdrop, a few of our newspaper columnists have demanded that Bangladesh should recognize Israel. About two years back a section of the leaders of our business community demanded that Israel be recognized. The Chamber leaders raised the demand because at that time some US Congressmen demanded that the entry of Bangladeshi product in the US market be linked with Bangladesh recognition of Israel. The demand of the US Congressman alarmed a section of our businessmen.  Being panicked they demanded that Israel be recognized. But they did not seriously ponder how Bangladesh-United States bilateral relations are linked with Bangladesh recognition of Israel? 
 
Thereafter, about a year back, in an indoor meeting of a Think Tank that was attended by journalists, retired army officers, geo-strategic and security analysts in which this writer was present the issue of the Bangladesh recognition of Israel was discussed. A senior journalist present in the meeting tried to convince why Israel should be recognized.  It became apparent that some other gentlemen present in the meeting supported his view. In another meeting, a few days back, this writer observed that Pakistan?s regotiation with Israel was discussed and two or three persons expressed their view in favor of Bangladesh recognition of Israel.   
 
This makes it clear that a section of the elite  of our society is in favor of Bangladesh recognition of Israel. To them it is not a matter of consideration that Israel is an illegitimate state that has violated many UN resolutions and occupied two-thirds of the Palestine land using force has occupied East Jerusalem that does not belong to them. If for argument sake we accept that Israel is the rightful owner of the land which UN mandate has given them in 1948 and should be under Israeli control, even then Israel should have vacated East Jerusalem long before. Israel has illegally established hundreds of  settlements in West Bank Israel also established such settlements in Gaza that Israel vacated only recently. We have seen in the television screen their pain and anguish, as they had to leave Gaza which was not their land. This is nothing compared to the inhuman brutality the Palestinian had to suffer in their own land at the  hands of the state of Israel. 
 
People  in our country who are supporting the recognition of Israel by Bangladesh, to them these are of no consequence, value and consideration. They ignore the fact that Israel is still denying Palestinian full control over the sky and sea of Gaza. They are not ready to consider all these issues. They are taking a very simplistic attitude. They are not considering the fact that only 5-7 countries out of the 57 Muslim countries have diplomatic relations with Israel and the reasons are also known. Turkey recognized Israel for it?s the then government leaders were very friendly with the  West.  Egypt recognized Israel to recover Sinai Peninsula from military occupation. No doubt it was a wrong decision on the part of the then Egyptian leadership, but still one can find some logic in it. Egypt was forced by circumstances. Moreover, the Egyptian people had no role in this decision for an undemocratic autocratic head of state ruled the country.  This is also true of Jordan.  Most of the countries of the Muslim World have not yet recognized Israel and still now are  opposed to such a move.  
 
Now the question is how recognizing Israel will benefit Bangladesh?  If there was really great benefit we could think over the matter. How big is Israel? It is a small country of a  few thousand square miles, roughly one-tenth of Bangladesh or less. The total population of Israel is 4 millions approximately. The question then naturally arises how big is the Israeli market from which we can benefit by exporting and also how much Bangladesh is losing for not having trade with Israel? How much we can earn from this small market? As regards imports, really what Israel can specially offer us that we cannot procure from other sources? Shall we have to import computers and other scientific equipments from Israel? Shall we have to import any other hardware or software from Israel? Shall we have to import aircraft and armaments from Israel? Are these not available in other countries?  Whatever we need are available in China, Russia, United States, Malaysia, Indonesia and Pakistan. Then what is the big reason that we have to import from Israel, a country with which we do not have trade since 1947? How the scenario has changed or how far the situation is positively developed that Bangladesh needs to recognize Israel? We must not forget that the illegal state of Israel was created by a resolution of UN in 1948 when the number of member countries was 50-55, most of whom were from Europe, America and Latin America. The number of UN member countries from Asia and Africa then were few in number. Who are then the other UN member countries? Pakistan and India then just got independence from the British colonial yoke and have become UN members. Still then Pakistan opposed the 1948 UN resolution that created the state of Israel. India also opposed the resolution. It is thus clear that Israel is an illegitimate state that the West imposed on the indigenous Arabs and Palestinians through the then UN because  Asia and Africa, the two big continents, were not represented fully in the then UN membership. The West got the 1948 UN resolution passed, created Israel  by sheer strength of membership and votes. We must not forget that the resolution was essentially illegal and therefore unlawful. The Muslim countries only surrendered to de facto situation and ground realities.  But the truth is that there should have been one country only in the old Palestine, that is  Palestine. There was no state named  Israel in the region  before 1948 UN resolution . This resolution created a new state with new boundaries. Jews from all over the world was made to immigrate to Israel and new settlements were raised there. Since then Israel occupied more Palestinian territories and expanded its boundary by deceit, use of military force and war and uprooted the local Palestinians and made them refugees. Israel occupied the whole of Palestine in 1967 war. Since then 38 years have passed.  
 
There is no moral basis for the creation of the state of Israel. It has been given legitimacy by use of force. Martial Law has no moral basis. Likewise, Israel has  no moral basis although it gained some sort of legitimacy because of the UN resolution of 1948. This illegal state is still not allowing the Palestinians to have their own state in the land of which only they are the rightful owner. Israel is not returning Jerusalem to the Palestinians who are its rightful claimant.  Israel is not allowing the Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland.  Many such problems still exist and yet to be resolved. In such situation, why should Bangladesh recognize Israel? What has happened that Bangladesh needs to recognize an illegal state? Is it justified to recognize Israel as long as Palestinians does not recognize Israel? Yes, if the independent and sovereign state of Palestine is created and state of Palestine recognizes Israel, we shall then recognize state of Israel. Israel is not big as United States. It is not that big as European Union. The Israeli market is also not as big as EU and US.  The question of substantial economic loss for having no trade and diplomatic relations is therefore not tenable.  Is the demand of recognizing Israel is based on justice and in the interest of Islam?  Unfortunately these reasons are not getting due attention of our elite. Why? Is it not because a large part of  our so-called elite is brainwashed? Regrettably they only watch BBC and CNN and they read only English newspapers. 
 
I therefore want to warn in advance the government of Bangladesh and the major political parties of the country not to proceed in this  course and also request them not to accept the immoral advice of a section of our elite to recognize Israel. #
 
Writer is a former Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh.    
 
 
 
 

 
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