No state has a ‘right’ to exist – least of all an apartheid, genocidal state like Israel (Jonathan Cook Blog, 2026-10-12)

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-10-12/state-right-exist-apartheid-israel/
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>> Israel has no right to exist. That’s the position in international law. It has nothing to do with hatred of Israel or antisemitism.

>> In fact, no state – none – has a “right” to exist, including states busy extolling their democratic credentials.

>> Peoples have a right to exist. When that right is abused, it invariably involves very serious violations of international law – often through crimes such as apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide.

>> States, by contrast, don’t have a “right” to exist. They simply do exist as a matter of fact – until they suddenly don’t…

>> This is so obvious it should not even need stating…

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Can someone remind me how many territories the US has? You know, the one's that aren't states.

Peoples have a right to exist. When that right is abused, it invariably involves very serious violations of international law – often through crimes such as apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide.

States, by contrast, don’t have a “right” to exist. They simply do exist as a matter of fact – until they suddenly don’t. Like apartheid South Africa. Like Rhodesia. Like Czechoslovakia. Like Yugoslavia. Like Nazi Germany.

This is so obvious it should not even need stating.

Were states to have a “right” to exist, completely arbitrary factors such as their borders, demographic make-up and political institutions would be sacrosanct. Inviolable. It would be impossible for minorities to secede, for territories to be transferred, for apartheid structures to be overturned . Any such change would be a transgression of the state’s “right to exist” as it is.

And yet every single journalist employed by an establishment media outlet is suddenly playing dumb on this most elementary of issues. They’ve all suddenly had a collective lobotomy. They insist Israel must be the exception to the rule that no state has a “right” to exist.