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Israel Fails Every Definition of a Nation’s Right to Exist—Philosophical, Legal, and Religious
What Israel must do to deserve to exist
Zionists talk about Israel’s “right to exist” as though nations have rights, but they never ask the next question: What gives a nation the right to exist?
If a nation has a right to exist, it comes from three possible sources: for philosophers, it’s the consent of the local people; for legalists, it’s the approval of the international community; for the religious, it’s God’s will. Modern Israel fails all three.
1. Modern Israel fails the local people’s requirements
When Zionists say Arabs rejected the UN plan for Palestine, they mean two-thirds of the people living there rejected it. In 1947, twice as many Muslims as Jews lived in Palestine—to be precise, the largest ethnic groups were 1,181,000 Muslims, 630,000 Jews, and 143,000 Christians. Most of the Muslims and Christians were native Palestinians; most of the Jews were Europan colonists.
An overwhelming majority of the population rejected the UN plan because it called for dividing a land where Muslims, Jews, and Christians had lived in peace and giving over half of the land to a third of its people, the European newcomers who only…
