I think it's very interesting that Israel is the only nation in the world that has a "right" to exist. That term is simply not bandied about anywhere else.
Why don't Chechnya or Kurdistan have a "right" to exist?
Most other countries don't have organizations at their southern borders with stated desires to destroy them.
(Although I don't really know why the international community doesn't use that language for Chechnya or Kurdistan.)
Regardless, I think that it's fundamentally absurd for any nation to claim a right to exist based on religion or ethnic heritage. I also think that it's absurd for governments to be anything but totally secular. But that argument can be applied against both the Israeli state and a Palestinian state in the absence of Israel.
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