THE WORLD DOESN'T HAVE TO AGREE with anyone that THEIR preferred country, or nation or state or nationality or "race" or "ethnicity" or religion, for that matter, GETS TO HAVE SPECIAL TREATMENT THAT IS AFFORDED TO NO OTHER ONE. In fact, let me break this to you, bunky, THE WORLD IS NOT GOING TO AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT POINT AND IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION, LEGAL, SOCIAL OR MORAL TO DO THAT. Though you may get many governments to do that when those in control have some ulterior motive which may though probably does not have much to do with the People in those countries so favored, but in some economic or strategic reasoning. People have little to do with that kind of thing, in the end. If you scratch most forms of nationalism you'll find that those pushing it see "their people" as little more than a natural resource to exploit and are expendable to one extent or another.
I know you idiots who use the entirely stupid "Israel's 'right' to exist" trope have never considered that but if "states" have rights and even "rights to exist" then there is no rational means of declaring the Third Reich did not share that "right to exist,"* Imperial Japan before the end of WWII had every reason for claiming that "right" and those it convinced of the divinity of the Japanese imperial state or those who believed in Hitler and his state did too, if Zionists are allowed to claim such a "right" for the far less clearly founded "modern state of Israel" and the idiots who buy into that mere slogan are allowed to hold it as some legal, social or moral reality which all so-called decent minded People are required to acquiesce to. What that phrase is is a propaganda tool to take advantage of the mid-brow and lower (that would be your crowd) superficiality in the use of language to advantage what was an apartheid ethno-state in the guise of a democracy - WHICH I TAKE AS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHY A REAL DEMOCRACY MUST BE EGALITARIAN OR IT WILL BE JUST ANOTHER APARTHEID ETHNO-STATE OR ITS EQUIVALENT - in order to cover up and allow its crimes to go unremarked on. And, I think it is probably as close to a rule of so-called "political science" as any that an apartheid ethno-state will, almost inevitably, turn into a genocidal apartheid ethno-state as it discriminates against those who are not part of its master-ruling-race, to disadvantage them, to discriminate against them, to enslave them and steal their labor, to steal their property, to steal their land - I am describing those who wanted and want right now for the United States to be just such a white-supremacist ethno-state as much as anywhere - and to, in the fullness of evil to murder them.
As I've noted, the irony in the case of Israel is the use it made of the illegitimacy of that flagship example of such evil, the German ethno-state that the Nazi ideology called for and tried to put into effect in their propaganda. What is not an irony is that America's racists and antisemites have made such common cause with the modern state of Israel in their genocidal "ethnic cleansing" of Palestine, though it is ironic that so many Americans who favor equality HERE have been gulled and morally blackmailed into supporting what they oppose here being the OFFICIAL AND LONG TERM PRACTICE OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
The "modern state of Israel" that most Americans hold in their mind is a product, not of the reality of it, but believed through carefully crafted and dishonest propaganda. I, in my youth, bought one side of that bullshit, the "socialist" side of that propaganda, the kind of pop clap trap that had Pete Seeger and the Weavers singing the Zionist "folk song" Tzena, Tzena, Tzena whose original lyrics were a promotion of the proto-Israeli military and its alleged moral goodness even as they were anything but an unambiguous good in the early 1940s. That socialist Zionist stuff kept the so-called Labour Party in power for a little while but it was about as socialist as the Starmer Labour Party is in Britain, today. It may not have been as overtly settler-colonialist (by the way, Tzena refers to Israeli settlements as "colonies"), it was quieter about it. And, just as you can have a democracy which is entirely non-egalitarian and so evil, you can certainly have a non-egalitarian socialism, as, in fact, the Nazis styled themselves and as Stalin claimed his government, one of many rival world's greatest mass murder regimes have claimed to be. If there's one thing America's socialists have been, it is naive and as much of a sucker for PR tactics as any mindless capitalist has been.
ONLY HUMAN BEINGS AND OTHER NATURAL LIVING BEINGS HAVE RIGHTS. Rights do not inhere to the creations of human beings, they don't inhere to abstractions such as states or even shadier human creations and mythical entities such as corporations and other often criminal syndicates. Rights don't inhere to religions. Human beings may have a right to their religious beliefs just as they may to their property but the religion no more than the property has any such a thing as a "right." If you think that is not a small point, it is one of the founding evils of the U.S. Constitution and law that it held that there were People who were property and that as such they had no rights. There are several standing U.S. Supreme Court rulings to that effect which have never been overruled - I used to think such a thing was not important but with the Roberts Court I wouldn't count on that in the future. Corrupt courts such as the U.S. Supreme Court may claim that such artificial "persons" have rights but that is a lie, the kind of lie that Courts and those who use their rulings use to deny the very real rights of real human beings - something the Court here has been lying about the 14th Amendment and its legislative history to do since the 1880s with often deadly as well as injust effects.
That is exactly what I suspect the "right of Israel to exist" slogan was intended to do from the start though if that was not the intent IT HAS CERTAINLY BEEN WHAT IT HAS BEEN GOOD FOR SINCE I FIRST HEARD IT IN THE 1970s. In that it seems Noam Chomsky also noticed that that was when the phrase first gained currency, not unrelated to the increasingly obvious discrimination against and dispossession and killing of Palestinians by Israel, both the official government and the "settler" movement who have been the vanguard of murder, terror and dispossession that has been so effective in stealing land for the Zionist project. I think it's another close-to law of so-called political science that whenever a state starts to have that "right to exist" slogan pushed that you can be sure someone is being robbed and killed by said state.
In the United States, "states rights" is certainly the most common form of the same thing as pushed by the slave-states and, after merely de jure emancipation, the Jim Crow states under lynch law and constant, violent terrorism. That has been going on for centuries, now, and it provides some of the strongest evidence of the evil of the concept. Most of that evil unstated but no less certainly, for that, its real goal.
I could go on and on and on. I certainly reject this kind of crooked bullshit in my country, the United States and I'm not under any moral obligation to pretend it's not happening in any other country. Not those states that idiot lefties of the past - for example Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers as well as the Weavers - held whenever some country called itself "socialist" not for those which are called "democracies" even as they practice American style lynch law and Jim crow style inequality, I'm certainly not obligated to pretend it in the case of the actively genocidal, apartheid ethno-states such as the old South Africa or the current Israel.
One thing I have concluded is that a very large percentage of Americans, many of them racist-antisemitic-right-wing crooks and many of them would-be egalitarian liberals are not bothered when it is happening to non-white People in some other country. The list of such countries would probably comprise a good number of those which get American military and other aid every year, it certainty includes Israel. That American liberals are still cowed by the fear of someone calling them an "antisemite" is absurd, as absurd as those old-timey liberals who got cowed by being called "commies." American liberals have to stop being cowards when they see evil done by Israel as they certainly have no right to pretend not to see it because the U.S., Britain and many other Western governments are in the blood bath up to our eyeballs.
* As I've pointed out here, such a "right" for a country to exist lies at the bottom of why such as the American senator Robert Taft opposed the Nuremberg trials of the Nazis on the basis that due to the government of Germany legalizing those crimes against humanity and other evils they were tried for, there was no legitimate legal process for holding them responsible for even mass murder. He was a product of Harvard Law - as have been so many other moral idiots such as JFK who considered the morally atrocious Taft a "profile on courage" which, by the way, is one of the major factors in me considering JFK to have been morally obtuse.
Have I mentioned I got over the Kennedy cult even as I was still buying romantic bullshit about things like the kibbutz movement? I don't remember who it was who pointed out that even in the death camps Jews sometimes could observe Holy Days and the such but in some of the kibbutzes of Israel that was banned. I got over my romantic view of communes pretty early on in having actually been to a couple. Especially the ones with lots of rules. They inevitably developed dictatorial cliques who ran them. You'd have to be a real fanatic to live in a kibbutz. I'd have told them to all fuck off by the time I was seventeen.
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