Toronto-based newspaper the “Weekly Press Pakistan” congratulated Israel ahead of the Jewish state’s 64th Independence Day. “Today on Israel’s 64th birthday, anyone who denies existence of Israel, actually he denies his own existenc
e… Israel is a reality… Better we not only recognize but also establish close relations with out further wastage of time.”
The influential urdu-language newspaper also published a commentary which stated that Israel has the "dubious distinction of being the only UN member state whose right to exist is regularly challenged, whose elimination from the world map is the aim of at least one other UN member state, Iran, and whose population centers are deemed fair game by Hamas-controlled Gaza and Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon. Thus, Israel’s sheer act of survival from year to year is itself noteworthy."
In the article, David Harris wrote, "None of the countries that are serial human-rights violators — not Iran, North Korea, Belarus, Zimbabwe, Sudan, or any of the others — gets anything near the relentless, obsessive, guilty-till-proven-innocent scrutiny that democratic Israel receives from UN bodies, with their built-in, anti-Israel majorities, in New York and Geneva.
"No other country is the target of such non-stop, well-funded, and highly-organized campaigns to discredit, delegitimize, and demonize a sovereign state. No other country faces such systematic attempts to launch boycotts, divestment campaigns, and sanctions against it, not to mention flotillas and flytillas, and all the while those behind the efforts, claiming to speak for human rights, blithely ignore places like Syria, where thousands were killed in the past year alone, because they can’t claim an Israeli connection," he said.
"And no other country has its right to self-defense challenged as Israel does, even though it does no more than any other nation would do if confronted by periodic terrorist assaults and deadly missile and rocket attacks."
The newspaper also urged media-to-media dialogue and for Israel to “recognize the significance of non-Arab Pakistanis and Ajmi Muslims.
