Israeli forces kill 12 Palestinians in Gaza raid

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Re: Israeli forces kill 12 Palestinians in Gaza raid

@Prince_Abbas

picioco:
“Israel’s right to exist is tied to Palestine’s.”

To talk about Israel’s “right” to exist is an insult to Palestinians.
Israel may be “allowed” to exist, but it has no “right” for that. For Palestinians to accept Israel’s “right” to exist is accepting the subhuman treatment they have received at the hands of the fascist regime.

And to what borders does Israel have the “right”?

Right to exist - Wikipedia

Noam Chomsky has criticized the term “right to exist” by saying it is unique to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and not a normal term used in international relations. He said that, “The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel’s rights as a state in the international system, but that they also recognize Israel’s abstract ‘right to exist’, a concept that has no place in international law and diplomacy, and a right claimed by no one. In effect, the US and Israel are demanding Palestinians not only recognize Israel in the normal fashion of interstate relations,but also formally accept the legitimacy of their expulsion from their land. They cannot be expected to accept that, just as Mexico does not grant the US the ‘right to exist’ on half of Mexico’s territory, gained by conquest.”

What 'Israel's right to exist' means to Palestinians - CSMonitor.com
There is an enormous difference between “recognizing Israel’s existence” and “recognizing Israel’s right to exist.” From a Palestinian perspective, the difference is in the same league as the difference between asking a Jew to acknowledge that the Holocaust happened and asking him to concede that the Holocaust was morally justified. For Palestinians to acknowledge the occurrence of the Nakba – the expulsion of the great majority of Palestinians from their homeland between 1947 and 1949 – is one thing. For them to publicly concede that it was “right” for the Nakba to have happened would be something else entirely. For the Jewish and Palestinian peoples, the Holocaust and the Nakba, respectively, represent catastrophes and injustices on an unimaginable scale that can neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

To demand that Palestinians recognize “Israel’s right to exist” is to demand that a people who have been treated as subhumans unworthy of basic human rights publicly proclaim that they are subhumans. It would imply Palestinians’ acceptance that they deserve what has been done and continues to be done to them. Even 19th-century US governments did not require the surviving native Americans to publicly proclaim the “rightness” of their ethnic cleansing by European colonists as a condition precedent to even discussing what sort of land reservation they might receive. Nor did native Americans have to live under economic blockade and threat of starvation until they shed whatever pride they had left and conceded the point.

Well said!