Abstract
The forgetfulness of the procedures through which the objects, identities and agents are recognized in international relations has emphasized in international law the reifying tendencies in the process of recognition. The article investigates the relation between the process of becoming recognizable and being recognized in international relations and how they are interrelated. Recognizability is a pre-condition and epistemologically is prior to recognition. According to international law perspective, a minority or a religious group has to be recognized by other entities or groups before getting a legitimate status of recognition in international relations. In doing so, the case study of the Non-State Actors (NSAs) in the Israel-Palestine conflict has been scrutinized. The recognizability of these NSAs by the great powers and regional powers vindicates their ‘being’ in international relations. Moreover the role of great power politics in intensifying the Shia-Sunni divide in the region will be elaborated through their support to their regional proxies i.e. Saudi Arabia, Iran and Israel and further by the regional proxies’ support to their proxies’ i.e. the non-state actors will be elaborated under the theoretical framework of Connolly’s concepts of Identity/Difference underlying the question of responsibility and the problems of evil in conflict.