Israel’s Right to Exist and Defend Itself

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Ever since the Jewish colonisation of Palestine, Jewish occupation, colonisation and ethnic-cleansing of Arab lands has been justified under Israel’s ‘right to exist’ and ‘right to defend itself’. Every act of genocide against the indigenous Arab population, every assassination, every flagrant breach of international law justified under the banner of Israel’s ‘right to exist’ and ’self-defence’. But before 11 May, 1949, there were very different justifications for the Jewish occupation, colonisation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and for the wanton acts of genocides against the indigenous Arab population and acts of terrorism against the British state.

The justifications were based on Jewish racial superiority and the supposed need of Lebensraum. Zionist decided on Palestine for their Jewish homeland, despite it’s small Jewish popualtion in comparison to the Arab population. Not that that mattered to Zionists - they considered Arabs to be Untermenschen - they justified the occupation, colonisation and ethnic- cleansing of Palestine in the same way the Nazis justified their holocaust.

But does that matter today?

Yes, because Israel wasn’t just forged out of occupation, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and terrorism - its very existence is based on it, and that will always be a problem. Israel can’t survive as a Jewish racial supremacist state with a large Palestinian population - that is the cause of the current Israeli genocide against the Palestinians. Israel flouts international law and commits acts every bit as barbourous as the Nazis - even if on a lesser scale - and continues to get away with it.

Israel has no legal argument for its actions but likes to cite the right to exist as a quasi-legal defence for atrocity after atrocity.But this is a smoke screen, even though Israel was admitted into the UN on the 11 May, 1949, there is no international law that guarantees Israel a ‘right to exist’ and there is no legal justification for genocide or ethnic cleansing.

No state has the right to exist, if it was put to a plebiscite as Iran has suggested, a majority of Palestinians and Israelis, would elect to live in a single state of Palestine, as is there right. Israel can only exist by force of arms and denying Palestinians an equal democratic vote. But not only does Israel not have a right to exist the Palestinians have a right to resist occupation.

Israel’s other defence of its atrocities is the right to defend itself, which is no justification for genocide, and actually Israel doesn’t have a right of self-defence in Gaza. Israel is unlawfully occupying Gaza and the West Bank, which is a violation the United Charter and invalidates the right of self-defence under article 51. Israel also refuses to acknowledge Palestinian sovereignty. So the Israeli argument is completly bogus.

Supporting Israel is supporting Jewish fascism, imperialism, genocide, ethnic-cleansing and racial supramacy - it really is that simple. You don’t have to support Hamas to be opposed to that.