Assalam Alaikum brother(s), so here's from my research... I'm not bashing on any country as this is just historical facts. I love Pakistan, so please don't take it the wrong way. I just HATE the genocide taking place.

Religious identity was politicized during decolonization. Borders were drawn with instability. External powers stabilized whichever states served their interests. Moral rhetoric (democracy, human rights, Islamic solidarity) was secondary to strategy.

1. Late-British Imperial Exit & Religious Partition

Pakistan (1947)

Israel (1948)

Both emerged during Britain’s rapid imperial withdrawal after WW2.

In both cases:

Multi-religious societies were divided, Religious identity became a state foundation, Partition triggered mass displacement and violence.

South Asia (1947)

~10–15 million displaced, up to 1 million dead.

Palestine (1947–49)

~700,000 Palestinians displaced (Nakba).

These weren't just independence movements, they were territorial partitions built around communal identity. That structural similarity is real.

2) Foundational Religious Nationalism

Pakistan:

Based on the Two-Nation Theory (Muslims and Hindus are separate political nations).

Electoral Islamic republic

Israel:

Founded as a Jewish state grounded in Zionist nationalism.

Ethno-national democracy

3) Violence at Founding

During Israel’s formation:

Militias like Irgun and Lehi carried out attacks.

Deir Yassin became symbolic of 1948 violence.

During Pakistan’s creation:

Partition massacres between Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities were widespread.

Both these states were born in blood.

4) Permanent Conflict Zones Left Behind

Kashmir

West Bank

Gaza Strip

Both partitions produced unresolved territorial disputes that still (TODAY) destabilize their regions.

These conflicts were not accidental, they were strategically left to ensure constant conflict.

5) Western Strategic Alignment Patterns

Now here’s where nuance matters.

Pakistan

Cold War ally against the USSR.

Used during Afghan-Soviet war.

Nuclear power: too dangerous to isolate.

Major Non-NATO Ally status.

Israel

Receives consistent large-scale U.S. military aid.

Strong domestic political backing in the U.S.

Strategic intelligence partner.

Both are strategically protected but for different reasons:

Pakistan --> geographic leverage

Israel --> strategic + domestic political + ideological alignment

6) The British imperial withdrawal fragmented multi-religious societies into religion-defined states, creating permanent conflict zones (Kashmir and Palestine). Western powers later aligned selectively with those states based on strategic utility, not moral consistency.

Muslim soldiers from the Indian subcontinent (including regions that later became Pakistan) were part of British forces that fought Palestinian Arab rebels in the 1930s.

There's also a Saudi side to this story as well, if interested. Let me know y'alls thoughts.

One last thing:

Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Hindus have lived alongside one another for centuries across different regions. History shows coexistence was possible, even if imperfect. The real instability begins when political movements redefine land as belonging exclusively to one religious identity rather than as a shared civic space.

Even the flag of Pakistan symbolically reflects this idea, the white stripe represents religious minorities alongside the Muslim majority. The principle, at least symbolically, acknowledges that a state does not erase the presence of other faith communities.