"Right to Exist" ( Was Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Friedman)

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There is an interesting elision here. Usually the idea
that "the State of Israel has no right to exist" is a
thinly veiled euphemism for a call for its military
destruction, accompannied with a massacre of Iaraeli
Jews. But you use this expression to refer to the idea
that Israel has a right to maintain its
ethnic-religious charactera gainst the peaceful and
democratic determinations of the entire population
that Israel in fact governs. So, do I believe that
Israel has  right to maintain its charcter as a 
Jewish state while ruling over a non-Jewish majority
whose rights it denies and which is makes second class
citizens? No, I don't. Does that make me a 
self-hating Jew? No. It does make me an Enlightenment
liberal and a small d-democrat, though. jks

--- Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
> > From: "joanna bujes" <jbujes at covad.net>
> >
> > I have no problem with a one state solution, full
> rights
> > of citizenship for Palestinians, reparations, and
> the right
> > to return for Palestinians.
> 
> The usual response to this is "that would mean the
> end of a Jewish state
> of Israel" ... so I guess it comes back to: do you
> believe that a Jewish
> state of Israel has a right to exist?
> 
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