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This is in continuation of the previous episode on Israel Palestine Conflict. It brings in a few more perspectives including a comparison of Israel with Pakistan and India with Palestine. In case of India, it understood the stark reality of its partition and the creation of an artificial state of Pakistan from within it along religious lines. India took the path of a secular republic, six years later Pakistan became the first Islamic Republic in the world. Republic of India recognized Pakistan on the first day of its independence on August 15 1947.

Unlike India, the leaders of Arabs of the land of Mandate of Palestine and later Palestine, did not recognize Israel when it became a reality with recognition from many states in 1948. Much later Palestine Liberation Organization(PLO) recognized Israel in 1993.

While a State of Palestine exists with observer status at UNGA and recognition from a large number of states(mainly in the non-west, only recently some western states have recognised Palestine), a full fledged Palestinian state with sovereignty remains a work in progress.