The other side...

I find Mr. Minhaj Ahmed's comment about 'this Jew sympathiser' a slur, just as if Mr. Minhaj Ahmed was called a sympathiser of people we Bangladeshis are more familiar with.

I also find it a slur for Mr. Minhaj Ahmed to ask how a Jew would feel if soldiers murdered his dear son or if his family was forced to work in a labour camp? Whatever else you may think, six million Jewish people as well as others including Gypsies were murdered and forced to work in labour camps during the Second World War. I don't believe Mr. Minhaj Ahmed can relate to that.

I disagree with his statement that "We really don't need to recognise Israel. Israel does not exist. These Jews came out of nowhere & yet they flourished."

Whether our government, the government of Bangladesh wishes to recognise another nation or not is up to the government. itself They choose to recognise another country for diplomatic and political reasons. But if we take Mr. Minhaj Ahmed's notion that 'Israel does not exist. These Jews came out of nowhere & yet they flourished' he should look at Bangladesh, our own country. There were many and there are still many who believe Bangladesh should not have come about but that it should have remained part of Pakistan just as there are many who believed that India should not have been partitioned. Yet, to change Mr. Minhaj Ahmed's words slightly-- these Bengalis came out of nowhere & yet we try to flourish.