Does Israel Have A Right To Exist?
"Does Israel have a right to exist?" people ask. What does that mean? Do countries really have rights, or do people have rights? The Jewish people have a right to exist, the Israeli people have a right to exist, but what does "Israel" mean? Israel defines itself as the state of the Jewish people. It is not a state of its citizens. It is a state of many people who are not its citizens, like myself, and is not the state of many people who are its citizens, like the 20 percent of its population that is Palestinian. So if we ask a Palestinian person, "Do you recognize the right for there to be a country on your historic homeland that explicitly excludes you?" what kind of response should we expect?
-- The end of Israel? by Hannah Mermelstein; EI, 19 December 2007.
[Via: Lawrence of Cyberia]
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I really wish this problem will be solved one day, but somehow I don't think this type of question can help us.
Posted by: momo at February 14, 2008 12:38 PM