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These 36 Countries Don’t Recognize Israel

May 2, 2015 23 Comments

Foreign relations of Israel Map

Map created by Davshul via Wikimedia

The map above shows who does and does not have diplomatic relations with the State of Israel. Currently 36 countries do not recognize and/or have foreign relations with Israel.

This includes 15 states that did at one point in the past but now, for variety of reasons, do not. Interestingly, this includes several Latin American countries.

The following states have never recognized and/or had foreign relations with Israel:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Algeria
  3. Bangladesh
  4. Bhutan
  5. Brunei
  6. Comoros
  7. Djibouti
  8. Indonesia
  9. Iraq
  10. Kuwait
  11. Lebanon
  12. Libya
  13. Malaysia
  14. North Korea
  15. Pakistan
  16. Saudi Arabia
  17. Somalia
  18. Sudan
  19. Syria
  20. United Arab Emirates
  21. Yemen

The following countries did have relations with Israel at one point in the past. (Time period of relations and reason for breaking them off are in parenthesis):

  1. Bahrain (1996–2000; Second Intifada)
  2. Bolivia (1950–2009; Gaza War)
  3. Chad (1960–1972; solidarity with the Palestinians)
  4. Cuba (1950–1973; Yom Kippur War)
  5. Guinea (1959–1967; unknown but presumable related to 1967 Arab-Israeli war)
  6. Iran (1948–1951, 1953–1979; Islamic revolution in Iran)
  7. Mali (1960–1973; pressure from neighboring countries)
  8. Morocco (1994–2000; Second Intifada)
  9. Mauritania (2000–2009; Gaza War)
  10. Nicaragua (1948–1982, 1992–2010; Gaza flotilla raid)
  11. Niger (1960–1973, 1996–2002; Second Intifada)
  12. Oman (1996–2000; Second Intifada)
  13. Qatar (1996–2009; Gaza War)
  14. Tunisia (1996–2000; Second Intifada)
  15. Venezuela (1950–2009; Gaza War)

Want to learn more about Israel’s history and foreign relations? Then have a look at the following books:

  • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
  • The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction
  • The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

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Comments

  1. erik smit says

    May 14, 2015 at 10:18 pm

    Combine it with a map of countries that don’t recognize Palestine. It is roughly the same number, but not the same part of the world.

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    • blair houghton says

      November 2, 2015 at 4:04 pm

      Because moral equivalence isn’t a fallacy.

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      • Leila Abdelmeguid says

        January 24, 2017 at 2:05 am

        Israel is a fallacy.

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        • blair houghton says

          January 24, 2017 at 6:08 pm

          Israel is a country. A sovereign state. “Palestine” is a region comprising space in eight countries: Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.

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          • Leila Abdelmeguid says

            January 24, 2017 at 7:50 pm

            Nope. “Israel” is an illegitimate, invented “country” inhabited and run by Zionist Jewish supremacist Khazars masquerading as “Semites” who do not belong, nor do they have any history whatsoever in that region.

          • blair houghton says

            January 24, 2017 at 8:20 pm

            All countries are “invented” by history, and are legitimized by recognition of their sovereign status on the part of a preponderance of the other sovereign states in the world. Israel has that status. Your irrational hatred for Jews doesn’t obviate that. I recommend you figure out whoever taught you that bigoted nonsense and stop listening to them.

          • Leila Abdelmeguid says

            January 25, 2017 at 12:51 am

            There are people who are indigenous to a region, and people who are not. European Jews are NOT indigenous to the Middle East, and therefore have no right to be there murdering innocent people who ARE indigenous, in order to steal their land. I recconend you find out whoever taught you your extreme arrogance and delusional belief of moral superiority, which are typical for your people, and stop listening to them. But your being a supporter of the most heinously genocidal entity on the planet, I have no reason to believe that you ever will.

          • blair houghton says

            January 25, 2017 at 3:21 pm

            Europeans are not indigenous to North and South America.

            So you’d say the US, Canada, Brazil, and two dozen other countries don’t exist, based on your false presumptions of legitimacy of nations.

            You are misinformed, deluded, and mendacious. Slap your teachers, stop reading the propaganda you have been conditioned to seek out, and stop annoying the internet with your gibberish.

        • MS says

          January 20, 2019 at 1:14 am

          If you live in one of the Arab or moslem countries, then your utmost wishes would be to live in that “fallacy”, in order to enjoy your life and live in dignity that human being are entitled and deserved to, rather than living in fear of saying the wrong word and lose your dignity and your life in any moslem country.
          May the Almighty bring peace to your soul and remove the hatred off your mind.
          Insha’alla

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  2. Hijazi says

    June 14, 2016 at 8:39 pm

    When will Saudi Arabia recognize Israel? Can’t wait for that day, I’m Saudi Arabian and want peace with Israelis.

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    • RashiD says

      October 16, 2016 at 4:22 am

      shame

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    • Leila Abdelmeguid says

      January 24, 2017 at 2:00 am

      Saudi Arabia already recognize Israel. It’s slaughtering and starving to death millions of Yemenis for them. They are also proud partners in butchering the populations and leaders of Syria and Libya. In fact, they are united by their love of gold and common Jewish herritage and roots. Jewish and proud, Jewish and Saud!

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    • Sami Khan says

      October 19, 2017 at 3:03 pm

      shame on you.

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  3. barney_el_mas_bonito says

    August 10, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    It doesnt matter if you recognize israel, is still not a real country, israel is just a THING .

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    • Mohammed Doe says

      March 17, 2017 at 2:36 am

      Iran is just a THING

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    • Geoff Tittensor says

      June 27, 2017 at 1:43 am

      Your face is a thing

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  4. Sardar Rahim Khan says

    August 31, 2016 at 12:04 pm

    All the Arabs are our muslims brothers , but they do not have the dare to handle Israel. We are just one country having a lot of problems but still we have controlled India which is a terrorist country and and close ally of Israel.

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    • Jake King says

      June 5, 2017 at 6:02 pm

      Ask your aba jaan what we did to you in 1971

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      • Noor ul Amin says

        July 1, 2017 at 6:24 am

        Ask you mom how we Pashtoons freed Azad Kashimir. Don’t forget when you cried during Kargil war. 1971 was a mistake done by our so called PM. Unfortunately it was a war with our Bangali brothers, they are still our brothers. You Endians can’t face Pak army at all. Your army is hungry, they have no food, so no match with the world’s strongest Pakistan’s army.

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  5. Mohammed Doe says

    March 17, 2017 at 2:36 am

    I don’t recognize Iran

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    • nazir hussain says

      January 18, 2018 at 10:48 am

      i dont recognize you

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    • Mo says

      June 4, 2018 at 6:16 pm

      Like Iran cares about you. Iran is the oldest country to exist and it doesn’t need a filth like you to approve what ever you are trying to do

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  6. Ran says

    May 31, 2018 at 6:19 pm

    Palestinians never existed as a people before Israel. just a bunch of arabs from neighboring counties that came to work there and stayed.
    There’s no single Palestinian leader that was actually born in Palestine.
    There are not a few Israelis that were… since the British Palestine Mandate was formed in order to make a Jewish state.
    They gave over 70% of Israel to create an Arab Palestinian state… now Jordan. it’s population is over 70% Palestinians.
    So… Palestine is Jordan.

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