Israel Has Forfeited Its Right To Exist as an Internationally
Recognized State
Collective Evolution
State sovereignty is a foundational principle of international relations, granting nations the authority to govern themselves without external interference.
The right to exist as an independent state is traditionally protected by international law, recognizing territorial integrity and political independence. However, persistent violations of human rights and acts of genocide challenge the legitimacy of sovereign states and raise questions about the conditions under which a state’s right to exist can be forfeited. The State of Israel, by its repeated actions of genocide, has forfeited its right to exist as an internationally-recognized state in the community of nations.
Israeli Decimation of Gaza
Israel’s persistent abuses of basic human rights—through systematic oppression, discrimination, and violence—has undermined its own legitimacy, which was born from the horrors of the Holocaust of World War II. The very nations that championed Israel’s independence as a state in 1948 are now among its greatest critics. The international community is now looking for a resolution for future governance of the territory lying between the Jordan River and the southern Levantine coast.
A post-Israel solution, whether it is a secular confederation, a Jewish-Palestinian federation, or a Swiss-style republic of Jewish, Palestinian and Israeli Arab, Druze, and Circassian cantons, is increasingly being seen as the only viable future to prevent the continuing genocide.
Legally and morally speaking, the commission of genocide delegitimizes the state. The state officially known as the German Reich (Deutsches Reich) from 1933 to 1943 and the Greater German Reich (Großdeutsches Reich) from 1943 to 1945 was consigned to the ash heap of history following the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II. In April 1945, the only nations that continued to recognize the German Reich with embassies still in Berlin (no state ever recognized the Greater German Reich) were Japan and the Nazi puppet states of the First Slovak Republic and the Independent State of Croatia.
The German Reich’s unthinkable atrocities ensured its complete erasure as an internationally recognized state under international law. In a situation resembling the current internationally-recognized states of Israel and Palestine, the territory of the former German Reich became the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) until their unification in 1990.
Regardless of the fabulist claims made by the Netanyahu regime and its massive propaganda operations, Palestine and its people have been subjected to many of the same atrocities carried out by Nazi Germany. Gaza now resembles what was left of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in 1942 and the French village of Oradour‑sur‑Glane in 1944 after the Nazis completely destroyed the towns and executed most of their inhabitants.
History offers several examples where states have faced significant consequences due to persistent human rights violations and genocide. The dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, following ethnic cleansing and mass atrocities, led to international intervention and the creation of new states. The Khmer Rouge of Pol Pot ruled the state of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 to 1979. During the Khmer Rouge reign, some 3 million Cambodians were executed, many in what became infamously known as the “killing fields.”
The state banned ethnic Chinese, Khmer Krom, Thai, Lao, Burmese, Tampuan, Jarai, Kreung, Brao, Muslim Cham, and Christians. They were systematically murdered by the regime during its rule.
Mirroring the support for Israel’s genocide by successive U.S. administrations, the United States supported Democratic Kampuchea by diplomatically backing the murderous regime throughout the Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush administrations. Carter’s national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski infamously said, “I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him, but China could.” Brzezinski was continuing the policy initiated by Ford Secretary of State and national security adviser Henry Kissinger.
Democratic Kampuchea retained control over Cambodia’s United Nations seat until 1993. It is noteworthy that Israel voted with the United States, China, and such human rights abusers as Saudi Arabia and Zaire to allow Pol Pot to retain his seat at the UN.
South African Prime Minister Vorster meets with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Knesset members Menachem Begin and Moshe Dayan, during a reception at Jerusalem's Hilton.
The South African apartheid regime’s constructs of “Bantustans,” nominally “independent” black-ruled republics, which were abolished after the dissolution of the apartheid regime in 1994, served as a template for Israel. Although no nation, other than apartheid South Africa recognized the republics of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, and Venda, the only nation that came close was Israel.
In what continues to sour relations between South Africa and Israel, Tel Aviv provided Bophuthatswana and Ciskei with assistance to build internal security forces. Israel welcomed Bantustan leaders and established “representative offices” or “liaison” entities in the Bantustan capitals of Mmabatho, Umtata, Thohoyandou, and Bisho. It is no coincidence that Israel has applied the Bantustan model to the West Bank, where areas over which the Palestine Authority maintains nominal authority resemble the ink blot like maps of the Bantustans.
Simply stated, repeated human rights abuses, including the crimes of genocide and unlawful warfare, have placed continued statehood for Israel in question. Considering the fact that Yugoslavia and apartheid South Africa, not to mention the German Reich, no longer exist, there is no ironclad right of Israel to continue to exist in its present form.
Ultimately, the legitimacy of states rests not only on their legal status but on their capacity to uphold the rights and dignity of their citizens and those subjected to their warfare. Israel has failed that test on all counts.
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By Wayne Madsen
Editors Note: this is one perspective on the issue. It's also reasonable to argue that "rights to exist" for countries don't exist for any country. Historially, countries have been invented, changed, broken up etc. If we are being honest, in the long term, nation states do not even make sense given our scale of travel, technological ability to destroy one another, and our need for collective coordination.
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Marjolijn Van der Horst
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We all have a right to exist. What we don’t have is the right to obliterate, genocide, a section of people. Israel can exist along with the rest of the world. No special treatment. Just live and be all you can be regardless of where you live. We ALL have a right to exist. We just don’t have a right to exclude anyone no matter who they are. We don’t have a right to commit genocide.
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Strand Philips
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"Nation states do not even make sense?"
Does your house not have a door and a doorbell with your name on it? Just because neighbours might come over for coffee, do you live by their rules, not yours?
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Sue Wakefield
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I think we need find an uninhabited Island far away from the Middle East - make it habitable and call it the New Israel 🧐
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Omero Cabrera
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I’ve been saying Israel needs its government reorganized for years. Separate church and state there and watch the state prosper with BOTH Muslim and Jewish people living side by side. Hate crimes should come with the harshest sentences there.
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Mina Turnbow
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It's a city in Palestine, call it what it is.
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Nancy Dorning
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Why can't humans stop killing each other. Compromise, respect each other stop going to the past for revenge. Get over it...move forward created a peaceful future.
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Enisa Haines
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I'm wondering something that I've seen no one else wonder.
Israel is not one 'nation' of people. Like for example people living in Sweden who when asked, say they are Swedish. The people living in Israel are people from different lands who believe in one faith. Judaism. So they grouped together and created a nation of their own that is all about the religion.
Now, there are many other religions, but I have not heard of any other nation built around a religion. Catholics have not banded together to create a Catholic land. Not Muslims nor Hindus nor Buddhists or others. The countries and people existed before religions and people identify themselves by their country's name.
As I said, the people who created Israel came from other 'countries' yet they equate their religion as their nation and identity. Can anyone clarify?
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Crag Huble
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States do not have rights but yes it should not be recognized.
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AJ Barrios
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Study the history of the first century in that land and see why the Romans took the decision they did!!!
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Richie Ludwig
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If my memory serves me.. my recollection 🤷🤷♀️🤷♂️ UN did not really accept or recognize 🇮🇱 as Sovereign State why they exercised "choose" special legal circumstances... 🙅🙅♀️🙅♂️ FARA ... The paper Sat on every president's resolute desk until Donald Trump decided to sign it. On December 6, 2017, the United States of America officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital city of the State of Israel. American president Donald Trump,
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Naeem Sattar
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Does Israel even have any legally defined borders ? If so what are they ?
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Joan Rutkowski
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When I landed in Tel Aviv, I never thought Israel would come to this. I was there in 1962-3 and it was truly wonderful - an amazing example for the world. I worked on a kibbutz near the Golan Heights, hitchhiked all over from Haifa to Ellat, Jerusalem to Acre.
When I returned in 2014 the difference was unbelievable - barb-wire fences stared at us, angry children, division and suspicion everywhere. I knew then that Israel had lost its way and it would only get worse. Here we are.
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Cindy Spain
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So why don’t you publish another opinion?
Do all nations have a right to defend themselves?
Why isn’t Russia mentioned here?
What exactly is genocide?
If the murderers and kidnappers hide amongst innocent civilians how to eliminate them?
Was the USA committing genocide by dropping an atomic bomb on Japan?
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Richard Monette
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First sentence, not “granting” — recognizing.
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Philip G. Pizano
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Go back to the Map of 1946 if you can’t see what’s going on
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Ivars Juzups
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its artificially made with blood, corruption and T.. check the true history 😉
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Garret Gonyea
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Absolutely
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Bauth PalaciosMeeks
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Lord have mercy.
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Catherine Campbell
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Israel believe they are the superior to any other race of people or country...they are NOT...all people have the right to exist in peace and harmony..Globally Israel is detested for their acts of genocide and cruelty...let that sink in Israel...the sooner Israel falls the closer the world will come to peace...Natanyahu is an evil, vile despicable excuse of a human being..as are his supporters...lets hope the Big C takes him out quickly.. KARMA
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Art Palarata
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So the Ukraine will be “New heavenly Jerusalem,” and Argentina, well…..
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Carlos Machaén
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Well, the cocrhoaches have been here for millions of years and still exists but they're really awful and nasty, we try to pest them but persist, so we can't do nothing about, just pest control every season. 🙂
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Ahmed Shamsan
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Trumpet and his wild team have swallowed all international laws
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