I came to the conclusion that artificial entities,

which countries certainly are, had no "rights" in thinking about the Supreme Court inventing "corporate persons" and then repeatedly setting them and their "rights" up and above those of mere human beings.  The earlier courts were entirely corrupt in working up that fiction but the Rehnquist and far more so the Roberts Courts have made them Nietzschean Übermenschen who, especially through such further Supreme Court inventions creating money as speech and the such have given them billions of times more "rights" than ordinary human beings do.   Lawyers - a profession that never stop sinking in my esteem - have certainly not done much to complain about that,  especially the corrupt "civil liberties" industry which has played such an outsized role in obtaining such "rights" for such artificial "persons."

Once I saw though that legal and lexcicographic con job,  hearing it said about Israel, I first felt odd about in the early 1970s as I first encountered some thuggish zionist students (at least one was a member of the JDL) from the Middle-Atlantic states.   I almost immediately saw through the bullshit and rejected that as any legitimate framing of any issues.   It was only the other day when I decided to answer some trolling I chose not to post that I came across this quotation from a note Noam Chomsky sent to someone who asked him to answer some lies that David Mamet told about him:

To my knowledge, the concept ‘right to exist’ was invented by US-Israeli propaganda in the 1970s, when the Arab states (with the support of the PLO) formally recognized Israel’s right to exist within secure and recognized borders (citing the wording of UN 242). It was therefore necessary to raise the bars to prevent the negotiations that the US and Israel alone (among significant actors) were blocking, as they still are.  They understood, of course, that there is no reason why Palestinians should recognize the legitimacy of their dispossession — and the point generalizes, as noted, to just about every state; maybe not Andorra.

Which seems to me to be a rather well-founded suspicion that that was the origin of the bullshit PR slogan,  as I recall that was back in the days before the overt fascists, the Likud gained the control which they have pretty well had the entire time since,  even forcing the so-called Labour Party to adopt their overt apartheid and genocidal policies.  Though I doubt that the Labour Party of Israel has much of a future as the voters of Israel go ever more fascist.   I think the myth that they're about to vote out the fascist coalition that has controlled the country for most of the last half century is ever more obvious nonsense.  At this point they'd have seemed to be going to do that for longer than the U.S. Green Party was announcing its imminent breakthrough.   It's easy as pie to practice that hopeful anticipation when you've got no real skin at stake and you don't mind generations of Palestinians being  terrorized, dispossessed and displaced and murdered en masse as most Americans obviously haven't in the half a century that Chomsky talks about, above. 

I haven't read anything by Chomsky that goes as far as I do in rejecting the idea that states have rights and that includes any "right to exist."  But he does seem to have noticed the invention of that slogan about the same time I recall it coming into existence.   I think that idea has no right to exist because it is a smokescreen for theft, violence, displacement and murder.