Countries that Don't Recognize Israel

Happy to see this list shrinking!

Solid quiz. And reasonable breakdown which shows that this is less about reality than prejudice. Though.. I think I would just group the last 3 together as "countries with foreign policy deliberately belligerent and antagonistic toward the United States who have mistakenly conflated Israel with the US." Cuba and North Korea aren't really Communist, anyway. And Venezuela is not really Socialist. They're all just countries led by corrupt authoritarian governments who use these words as an excuse for autocracy. The DPRK removed all references to Communism from its Constitution in 2009 - so in their case they're not even pretending anymore.

Of course in the case of the first two, their stance toward Israel is largely a holdover of the Cold War when the USSR was more closely aligned with Syria and Egypt pre-Sadat, and the US was more aligned with Israel post-'67 or at least post-'73, and they were just following the Soviets' lead. So, fair enough categorization.

"mistakenly conflated"?

Hate to break it to you but the US are a proud sponsor of Israel and the Palestinian genocide.

Don't know how you define support, but I define proud sponsor as a nation who has been giving Israel billions of dollars worth of military aid every year for decades. That's just the usa for now.

I could be giving similar amounts of aid according to my budget. The reality is that Israel has been able to fight the Arabs for so long because the United States want them to. Israel exists where and how it does because the United States want them to.

I do not like current (or past) Israeli actions against the Palestinians, but I do think there should be a Jewish state

Agreed, every nation deserves their own state. Having said that, zionism specifically is a joke gone too far.

What do the communist nations have against Israel?

To preface, just answering the question, not injecting my own opinion, even if I only know the answer by just now asking a Leninist I know.

In Leninism, the self-determination of nations and anti-imperialism are of utmost importance, and in fact each of those are entire books written by Lenin. Since Israel was established by the British Empire and is an apartheid settler-colony (not trying to be inflammatory, that's straight from the United Nations https://undocs.org/A/HRC/4/17 and the African National Congress https://www.haaretz.com/1.5001173), the state of Israel is considered oppressive by Leninists and they think it should be replaced by a state that does not officially prioritize any religion or nationality. Also, Communist countries suffer under near-universal blockades, like Gaza and the West Bank do, so there's probably a solidarity factor there too.

Stupid question but... it turns out that they consider Israel part of Palestine, or no man's land?