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   sortius (sortius@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 09:34:46 JST sortius

   I keep seeing the phrase "Israel has a right to exist" thrown around a lot of late, and it's a new meme that is grounded in nothing.

   No nation "has a right to exist".

   It's a nonsense statement with no international law or obligations to back it up.

   If nations "have a right to exist", then countries like East Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the list goes on, would all have been forced to remain a thing.

   This is a deliberate distortion, and replacement, of the right to self-determination

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     sortius (sortius@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 09:34:46 JST sortius

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     The reason for obfuscating the right to self-determination is that Israel is constantly in violation, on thousands of grounds, of Palestine's right to self-determination.

     This is on top of their illegal occupation of Palestine; which moots the other, oft quoted, "Israel has a right to self-defence".

     Not as an occupier. No occupier has a "right to self-defence".

     Just ask the US in Iraq.