israel's fabled ‘right to exist’
For close to 60 years, the state of israel has struggled fruitlessly to gain legitimacy among its Arab neighbors.
'Arabs must recognize israel's right to exist,' they insist.
The only problem is - that 'right' doesn't exist - and no amount of idle 'recognizing' in the world can change that reality.
Only human beings have a 'right to exist' - not institutions, or states, and certainly not corporations.
These entities only have privileges - which are granted by human beings or conversely withheld or dissolved.
Rights are God-given and unique to human beings. With rights come obligations that can neither be curtailed nor denied.
Privileges, on the other hand, are assigned by people, ideally for the benefit of everyone they effect.
In other words, institutions have the privilege to exist among human beings, for the express benefit of those human beings.
Therefore, when institutions act, it must be in a representative capacity for the purpose of enhancing and protecting human rights - otherwise, they are in conflict with those rights. There is no in between.
If a state or an institution does not exist to enhance and protect human rights but instead requires their annihilation in order to exist - then it is defacto illegitimate and human beings who are adversely affected by its actions have not only a right but a duty to defend themselves against its assault.
israel, by definition, is an illegitimate state, for its very foundation demands one group of people forfeit their right to exist in order for israel to realize its so-called 'right to exist' as a 'Jewish' state.
It will never happen - at least not legitimately.
It can only happen through fraud, corruption and brute force.
israel can have no 'right to exist' that supercedes the rights of human beings to exist.
And with every murderous move they make, israelis demonstrate for the world that israel is NOT a state - but a murderous CULT, that thrives on denying others what they demand for themselves.
Agree.
The comments in the essay apply equally well not only to apartheid settler-states based upon theft and ethnic cleansing, but also to the ravenous multinational corporations that both impoverish billions, prevent effective and necessary political and ennvironmenmtal change.
which has abused the authority granted to it to systematically rob citizens of both their freedom and their wealth.
No Nation or Corporation is inviolable.
THEY ARE NOT PERSONS.
THEREFORE, THEY DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO EXIST - they either give people good reason to maintain them, or they should be abolished.
We can tell alot about a person by the friends that they keep. That applies more profoundly to world leaders. As they effect so many countless lives...
These pictures speak for themselves. Dance with the devil and soon enough the anti-christ is running the whole ball. With 'friends' like these....
http://amalekite.blogspot.com/2006/11/world-leaders-chabad-lubavitch-wha...
These sociopaths want to infiltrate the body of humanity the way cancer cells invade healthy tissue. The destroyers must be stopped. And all world leaders who lick Israeli boots are complicit. We the citizens of the world must rid ourselves of these cannibalistic parasites once and for all!!
Thank you qrswave for the excellent blogging. ( I write your web address on currency and tell everyone I know about your blogs. )
Absolutely. Israel is really nothing more than a GHQ for the Jewish Global Crime Syndicate. A modern oasis built by Palestinian sweat and American dollars.
Israel is illegitimate in every sense of the word and it simply must be dissolved if we are ever to have any hope for real peace in the world.
Excellent article qrswave.
Excellent Commentary! I know some blogs that I can paste this great Shot of Truth to.
Just when I needed something like this, too.
As you must know, that is all the israelis do on the blogs. With their bullying words they keep on badgering, making people say 'israel' deserves a right to exist.
They never let up!
THe most gruesome things they say! So cold-hearted. And in light of all the murders they commit.
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JFK, Where ever you are, thanks for your last post to me! :-)
Imagine there's no Israel,
Earth has a new accord,
No hell awaits us,
A future now assured,
Imagine all the people,
Living for themselves...
Imagine there's no rulers,
It isn't hard to do,
No one to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people,
Living life in peace...
Imagine no death or taxes,
We're free of sponging sods,
No need for pain or conflict,
A race of demigods,
Imagine all the people,
Sharing ten aeons...
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But there is no other way,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And we'll all be here to stay.
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P.S. My goal of anarchist commonwealths on thousands of planets colonised by rational hyper-intelligent beings who have uploaded to infinitely more durable and functional hardware platforms, and who have massive incentives to care about the future and to maintain an ethical system of reciprocal altruism that counters lethal threats to individuals, is very long-term. In the short-term, I respect others' rights of religious freedom where they also respect the rights of others. Beliefs and world-view are an integral part of the identity-critical information that defines an individual's personality, and forcible changes are almost tantamount to loss of the particular individual.
And it must be said that some religions are more equal than others. Removing Israel, the associated Zionist crime syndicate, and the Talmudic racial supremacist ideology would be an enormous step in the right direction.
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THE ONLY RATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INTELLIGENT LIFE
Value of future experience = quantity of experience x [average quality of experience - k]
where: k denotes the minimum tolerable quality.
Strategies to maximise the value of future experience ... qualitative and quantitative:
The value of future experience is directly related to its quantity (and is positive provided a minimum quality k has been attained, which is not too hard).
The typical human "natural" lifespan < 10^2 years.
The typical habitable universe natural lifespan > 10^10 years.
The typical time available to advanced beings who have re-engineered their own hardware platform and solved the problem of universal thermodynamic (heat) death [scientific eschatology] asymptotically approaches infinity.
[Conclusion] Any self-respecting advanced intelligent lifeform should, if it hasn't already done so, rid itself of any "natural" constraints on lifespan, and take some time out (or pay someone else to) during the next few aeons to develop a solution to thermodynamic death.
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The value of future experience is directly related to its quantity and the difference between its quality and a user definable minimum quality k.
A monopoly is a lucrative generator of wealth, privilege and / or power for its principals, to the detriment of the consumer or the dispossessed.
Government, a self-styled monopoly holder of the right to initiate force, is naturally a lucrative generator of wealth, power and privilege for its principals - e.g. politicians, bureaucrats, and quangos - to the detriment of the majority. Such detriment may include loss of life as well as loss of wealth / liberty.
[Conclusion] Any self-respecting advanced intelligent lifeform should live according to a model of privately-produced law and protection agencies [anarcho-capitalist], as opposed to a regime incorporating a ruling elite which holds a nationalised monopoly on these services.
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The value of future experience is directly related to its quantity and the difference between its quality and a user definable minimum quality k.
It is science and rationalism - i.e. epistemologies which judge theories by criteria such as internal consistency, empirical evidential support, predictive value, explanatory power, Occam's Razor, and compatibility with the reductionist paradigm - which propel life's control over its environment, thereby improving the quality and quantity of life for advanced lifeforms.
[Conclusion] Any self-respecting advanced intelligent lifeform should adopt a scientific, rational approach to reality, as opposed to embracing mysticism.
Masturbation tactics again Eh?
Oh well not going to do a darn thing
First you take D.C. Then you take New York .
This was when you could post without needing to log on (before Miss R and company decided to ransack this blog).