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</font><font size=4><b>The Right To Exist: Who has it? Where is it?
Why?<br><br>
</font><font size=3>By Gary Corseri<br><br>
</b>05 June, 2010<br>
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<a href="http://countercurrents.org/corseri050610.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://countercurrents.org/corseri050610.htm<br><br>
</a></b>Does Israel have a “right to exist”? Do we?<br><br>
It’s a shibboleth of the Zionist entity: “Israel has the right to
exist!”<br><br>
But what is this “Israel”? What is this “right to exist”?<br><br>
Where is it written? Is it in Holy Scripture? “The Song of Songs”? “The
Book of Job”? “Proverbs”? “Ecclesiastes”? <br><br>
Is it written in stone on two tablets by the finger of God?<br><br>
What does it mean when a people declare that they have the “right to
exist” as they please because they are a “democracy,” but other people
have no such right? I solemnly declare my elections legitimatethe will
of my people--, but … it is obvious that you people over there (in Gaza,
in Turkey, in Iran, etc.) do not have the capacity to choose leaders who
can represent your true interests! <br><br>
What does that mean?<br><br>
Israel refuses to negotiate with Hamaswill not recognize the political
leadership that the Palestinians chose in internationally monitored
electionsbecause, Israel declares, Hamas will not recognize Israel’s
“right to exist.” <br><br>
And why should Hamas recognize that “right”? What is always unspoken are
the words, “the right to exist as we are now, as we have been, and as we
shall become.” Recognize me, and suffer all my faults! Recognize my right
to exist as I am, have been and will beand forfeit your right to
challenge me legally for illegal seizures of property, for expropriations
and appropriations, for illegitimate detainments, incarcerations,
torture, homicides.<br><br>
In effect, Israeli commandos unilaterally declared that Aid Activists on
a flotilla in international waters had no “right to exist.” <br><br>
When Ahmadinijead of Iran quoted the Ayatollah Khomeini that the Zionist
entity would wither away and disappear from the page of history, the
entity and its media stooges in the U.S. and elsewhere accused Iran of
threatening to “wipe Israel off the map of the earth.” Israel declared
Iran an “existential threat” and threatened, in turn, to destroy the
Iranians with the 200 nuclear weapons that they will neither confirm nor
deny possessing (even though everyone knows they have them!).<br><br>
Orthodox Jews, including the ultra-conservative Hasidim, are among those
most loudly proclaiming that the state of Israel has “no right to exist.”
Their viewpoint is hermeneutical: they believe that Israel will be
established among the nations after the Mashiach (the Messiah) comes.
They believe it is heretical for politicians to reverse the process.
First the Mashiach, then the state. That’s the way they read the
Hebrew.<br><br>
Then, do Orthodox Jews have the “right to exist”? (At last report, Israel
had not threatened them with its nuclear bombs).<br><br>
“We the people” in the infant republic of the United States, did not
think much about the existence of Native Americans, women or slaves. Some
three score years after our founding, we did not think Mexico had a
“right to exist” north of the Rio Grande. We did not think Hawaii had the
right to exist as a sovereign nation. Nor, in spite of promises made at
the time of the Spanish-American War, did we think the Philippines had
the “right to exist” as anything other than a U.S. colony in Asia (we
needed the coaling stations!). <br><br>
Is it simply power that determines the “right to exist”? <br><br>
During the Cold War, the US and its allies decided the Soviet Union had
no right to exist. We were prepared to obliterate the world to prove our
pointcertain nutjobs among us were. One of our soldiers, a Lieutenant
Calley, thought he was “just following orders” when he decided that
hundreds of villagers in a hamlet called My Lai in Vietnamunarmed men,
women and childrenhad no “right to exist.” He “wasted” them.<br><br>
Does the U.N. determine who has the “right to exist”? Does Tibet have
that right? Does Palestine? Does Kurdistan? <br><br>
Suppose the good people of Vermont decide that they are sick and tired of
bank bail-outs, oligopolies, kakistocracies, phony American elections,
our media of the absurd, oil-slick corporations with more legal rights
than “persons,” and artery-clogging, greasy fast food? In a sterling,
transparent, democratic election, the vast majority of the state elects
leadership that claims its place among the nations of the world as “The
Glorious, Independent, Technicolor, Outstanding Republic of Vermont”
(which a media wag soon dubs the “GIT OUT of “R” Vermont republic). Does
the Glorious, Independent, Technicolor, Outstanding Republic of Vermont
have the right to exist?<br><br>
The Zionist state demands the right to exist as a Zionist statea
non-signatory of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, bristling with
nuclear weapons. Did Yahweh come out of the clouds and declare that this
state alone can break all the rules of international decorum with
impunity, without censure?<br><br>
When did Yahweh make that announcement? Was it on the Rachel Maddow show?
Was it on Larry King?<br><br>
Suppose we started from the other end? Suppose we assumed that no one had
the “right to exist,” but that everyoneand every speciescould enjoy the
“privilege” of existence? How would we order the world then? <br><br>
The Zionist zealots ask, Why don’t the Palestinians produce a Gandhi, a
Martin Luther King to lead them? But where is the Zealots’ Martin
Buber--a Jew who exhorted the Jews, and all humankind, to live in harmony
with otherswith different species, toowith God, tooin an “I and Thou”
relationship? <br><br>
The Zealots have raided the Kingdom of Heaven. Like Lucifer, the Angel of
Light, they will be transmogrified by their pride and arrogance, and lust
for power. And … they will fall, corrupted from within.<br><br>
<b>Gary Corseri</b> has posted and published articles, fiction, poetry
and dramas at Common Dreams, CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, The New York
Times, Village Voice and hundreds of other venues internationally. His
books include the novels, A FINE EXCESS and HOLY GRAIL, HOLY
GRAIL.<br><br>
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