PAKISTAN-ISRAEL RELATIONS AFTER THE ARAB WORLD’S GEOPOLITICAL GRAVITATION TOWARDS ISRAEL

Year 2021, Volume: 13 Issue: 3, 723 - 736, 01.07.2021

Muhammad Fahim

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Security and financial diversification are the major, but not only, reasons behind the recent Arab world’s geopolitical gravitation towards Israel. It was vehemently believed that a formal move of the Arab world towards normalizations of relations with Israel will compel Pakistan to revisit her Israel policy and will eventually lead to normalization of relations with Israel. But the recent wave of normalizing of relations between Arab states and Israel proved this theory flawed. Now, the decades-old overt and covert contacts and visits between the Arabs and Israelis resulted in the formal announcement of normalization of relations between four major Arab countries and Israel. However, Pakistan has denied any change in her long-standing Israel policy. This article will analyze Pakistan’s stance after the Arab world’s geopolitical gravitation towards Israel and the believed pressure from some Arab countries and the Trump Administration on Pakistan with regards to the normalization of relations with Israel. This article will also discuss the historical background, contacts, various tensions, and believed constraints, such as the Iranian factor, the Kashmir Issue, the fear of Islamist revolt, and so on.

Keywords

Pakistan, Israel, Relations, Recognition, Arab world, Gravition, Normalization of relations

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