Does Israel Have the Right To Exist? Does any nation?
Here’s a quite interesting video underlining crystal clear that while people certainly have rights within civilized spaces on Earth, there are no such concept in the international laws corpus pertaining to the right of a nation or of a state to exist.
■ So to the question : Does Israel have the right to exist ?
■ The answer according to international laws is A CLEAR and RESOUNDING *NO* BECAUSE ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEE IS OFFERED when Israel means the state of Israel or the nation-state of Israel.
■ BY ORGANIC REALITY and NATURAL HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT, an existing nation is a group of peoples having more or less decided — sometimes if not most of the times for the average persons, it’s rather the historical circumstances which decided for them — to live together for centuries if not millennia, often sharing a common language, common habits, religious beliefs or otherwise beliefs and a certain recognizable pattern for socio-politico-economic organization.
Simply said, a nation is a bunch of glorified tribes having more or less achieved an acknowledged place under the sun by the other nations. That acknowledgment might change with the dynamics of the always shifting international balance of power.
I dispute parts of the author’s position. In civilized space, which we must say includes the UN, Israel has legal rights, including the right to exist. This is indisputable. However, these rights are not “natural” they are legal, created by a human living association of men – the UN, under… Read more »
Mr P, a small difference. When Israel was accepted as a UN State, they were given a number of legal requirements to adhere to, in order to maintain good conduct. It is a longer story, but they have not adhered to even one. What comes to mind first is the… Read more »
Yes, of course. And well said. But this “right” must be formally revoked by the UN. For the time being it exists. If there were a higher body to whom one might go….ah! Well that’s precisely what has happened – the people themselves are revoking the right. In the occupied… Read more »
To define the hierarchy. Living things have rights from God. Legal rights, created by living things (especially by men) are created subservient to natural rights. And I suspect that “things” also have natural rights… A river has the natural right to be and flow, for example. In the example of… Read more »