07-17-2017, 05:05 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: News Miscellany
Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | Foreign Policy Journal
Especially this:
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Myth #4 – Israel has a “right to exist”.
The fact that this term is used exclusively with regard to Israel is instructive as to its legitimacy, as is the fact that the demand is placed upon Palestinians to recognize Israel’s “right to exist”, while no similar demand is placed upon Israelis to recognize the “right to exist” of a Palestinian state.
Nations don’t have rights, people do. The proper framework for discussion is within that of the right of all peoples to self-determination. Seen in this, the proper framework, it is an elementary observation that it is not the Arabs which have denied Jews that right, but the Jews which have denied that right to the Arabs. The terminology of Israel’s “right to exist” is constantly employed to obfuscate that fact.
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Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | Foreign Policy Journal
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