Israel offered to recognize newly-founded Bangladesh in 1972. Despite similar independence struggles, the logic of a strategic relationship, and the lack of direct hostilities, they still have no economic, defense or diplomatic ties. It's time for changeby Umran ChowdhuryIn the years following the Second World War, the political maps of South Asia and the Middle East were redrawn. The British Raj came to an end with partition into the two states of India and Pakistan. On the eastern flank of the subcontinent, the borders of East Pakistan were created by the Radcliffe Line in 1947. The State of Israel was created in 1948 with the end of the British Mandate for Palestine.Both Israel and Bangladesh were founded in the wake of genocides. For Israel, the Holocaust; for Bangladesh, the atrocities during the 1971 Liberation War in which the pro-independence Bengali population was systematically targeted for their political beliefs, cultural identit...