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I think this begs the questions of how all states arise, and what exactly the international community is.
Who is a state? what "right" does a state have to land?
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Nation-states have mostly been created through the most extreme violence and bloodshed, and under ideologies of exclusion, intolerance and irredentism. This much is true.
But we (are supposed to) have moved on!
This is no longer the 19th century, nor the worst part of the 20th century. It is true that there are no "rules" as to the "creation of new states". There are general rules however, now, which lead to more respect of minorities' rights (incl. language, religion, etc), the effective weakening of the significance of borders, the retreat of the supremacist ideologies (after WWII the notion of supreme races or nations went bankrupt), etc etc.
Which is why I claim (and the pro-Zionists get all upset) that Israel remains an anachronism.
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