[lbo-talk] Re: Israel's "right to exist"

[Brad DeLong]

>Jordan writes:
>
>"do you believe that a Jewish
>state of Israel has a right to exist?"
>
>I do not see how I can answer this theoretically. Since the 
>"existence of the state of a Jewish state of Israel" seems to go 
>hand-in-hand with the theft of Palestinian land, with the torture 
>and wanton murder of Palestinians who claim any kind of rights, with 
>the exile of 75% of the population of Palestine, with the 
>imprisonment of the remaining population, with a hostile and 
>arrogant foreign policy that thinks nothing of marching proudly 
>toward an apocalyptic end that could involve the whole Middle East, 
>I do not support the "existence of the Jewish state of Israel." If 
>the "Jewish state of Israel" can only exist under such 
>circumstances, then, No, it does not have "the right to exist."
>
>Joanna
>

And the people of Israel? Where do they go?

Brad DeLong