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States have no inherent ‘right to exist’—but it’s a media fixation on Israel/Palestine

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 12, 2021 by Gregory Shupak (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) | (Posted Feb 16, 2021)

No state has an intrinsic “right to exist.” As international relations scholar Scott Burchill points out, there is no abstract “right to exist” in international law, or in “any serious theory of international relations.”