Problematizing Israel’s “Right to Exist”

By Guest Author Semyon Dukach

Given that Israel was created largely as a response to a relatively recent, deliberate, and partly successful attempt to murder every Jew in the world, it is particularly easy to associate Israel’s right to exist with that fundamental right to life, and to hold people who deny it in great contempt. But is it in fact a reasonable association?

Taking a closer look at the language, the right to exist of a certain country is a very different thing than the right to life of its inhabitants. Specifically, Israel’s right to exist refers to the right of the nation to call itself “Israel”, and by implication to consider itself a Jewish state. And that unfortunate framework demands that all others, particularly the large and growing Arab population of both Israel proper as well as of its occupied territories, also consider the nation they live in to be a Jewish state.

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ISRAEL AND GAZA – A SERIOUSLY NASTY SITUATION –

HMMMMN !

Israel is being Seriously nasty. It is disgusting that children are being randomly killed in Gaza and homes being destroyed. The death toll is inhumane and horrible; unforgivable .

BUT, what choice did Israel have ?

Hamas in Gaza were continuously firing rockets into Israel long before Israel lost patience and fired back.

So who is really at fault here ?

Any person or State continuously firing murderous rockets randomly into a civilian population and killing them is uncivilised and stupid, primitive and ignorant.

If this continues, it seems there is ultimately no choice whatever but to retaliate with equally obscene violence to end it.

Think About it !

What would you do ?

Just sit there and do nothing ?

Let the rockets from Hamas continue ?

Do let me know !