The United Nations condemned Israel despite Israel’s objective to be free from war. Israel was under attack and at war even before it was created. The lands of Israel were under attack from certain Arabs before the 1917 Balfour Declaration that established the modern state of Israel. Does Israel Have a Right To Exist? Or. Is the nation of Israel a man-made construction? A Right is something intrinsic. As such there is literally, figuratively and actually no such “thing” in existence. A Right is an intangible abstraction. The Right to a land or an attribute or a thing requires a recognition, a grasp, an understanding of the concept, the basic idea that underlies the concept of a Right. No one has ever improved on Ayn Rand’s definition of Rights. Rand wrote: “Rights” are a moral concept – the concept that provides a logical transition from the principles guiding an individuals actions to the pronciples guiding his relationship with others — the concept that preserves and protects individual morality in a social context — the link between the moral code of a man and the legal code of a society, between ethics and politics. Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Since Israel is not an individual, it is possible to expand the definition of “Rights” to an entire nation? Yes, since each citizen is in possession of the Right to Property, Israelis possess the Right to their own bodies, the untimate property of an individual therefore the nation of Israel has the Right to Exist. In a sense it is not necessary to justify the Rights of an individual to exist since their existence is evident bu the fact that they are here.
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