For few days, Israel and Palestine issue is hot again and many countries with Palestinian ex-pat communities or religious affiliations have started political point-scoring over this long and pending political issue. Pakistan is at the forefront of this issue YET AGAIN. Mr. Shah Mehmood Qureshi the Foreign Minister of Pakistan managed to meet the Palestinian Ambassador to Pakistan Mr. Ahmed Jawad AA Rabaei today to discuss the matter in detail and ensured their FULL support. But before we judge/support this traumatic situation in Palestine we must look at ourselves as Pakistanis and IF we are even capable of doing anything AT ALL to bring down the violence. What we lack is a realistic approach and maybe just maybe we might want to consider the following.
- Pakistan is on the verge of economic collapse, (IMF and most economists consider Pakistan economically collapsed already) nobody takes poor countries seriously and they NEVER will.
- Pakistani politics is NOT educated on the subject either, religious slogans work very well within Pakistan but don't mean anything on global platforms.
- Pakistan does not have ANY strong allies who share the same sentiment about Palestine (not even Turkey, because they recognize Israel and do not recognize Palestine given that their borders are shrinking).
- Pakistan is using Palestine to yet again promote their Islamic brand to the world to welcome more extremism within the society as well as a global image, which even Palestinians do not agree too.
- Pakistan is unable to support Palestine financially or politically AT ALL.
- Diplomatically and economically strong countries understand the position of Pakistan and will get distant from Pakistan, which will affect the common men in Pakistan.