The pure, unadulterated, objective fact is that when ANY nation’s or state’s "right to exist" is measured by the same "objective" standards that are always lined against Israel, well, then it would seem NO nation has any right to its existence.
It strikes me as virulently anti-Jewish that, after WWI, WWII, & the Cold War (WWIII), when dozens upon dozens of Islamic nations, Christian nations, & secular nations were created, their borders drawn by a world assemblage, there developed a particular, pointed, peculiar focus on Israel alone as the ONLY nation that should have no right to its existence, its borders, its security, or the right to stand in defense of a people the world has proven it is willing to let die.
Is it a coincidence that it is solely the one nation for Jews that is the one nation whose right to existence is questioned? If Israel has no right to exist, then surely Iraq, Iran, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Jordan, every nation in Africa, Britain, Ireland, every country in South & Central America, the U.S. (especially the U.S.), Canada, & every country of the world really should not have the right to existence.
Frankly, there have been so many Muslim nations created during the past century, so many secular, & so many majority Christian that the outright hypocrisy of focusing on Israel is proof enough to me & fellow Zionists that we are correct, that we need a nation for the Jewish people (because when it hits the fan the world has shown us that we are wholly & truly alone).
To most, Israel is an abstraction, a catch-phrase, an extracurricular activity; it's a "peace" rally where falsely concerned boys go to meet spoiled, gullible, pretentious girls; it's a bumper-sticker, a tee-shirt, a television show. To me, it is about survival; it’s about family, about cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews --- it’s about Life, & the right to it.
Most of the world, although they understand pain, loss, war, famine, tragedy, disaster & death, they do not truly understand GENOCIDE. Genocide is not just murder, not even simply MASS-murder. Truly, genocide is the extermination of an entire culture, an entire ethnic group destroyed. Israel is a great conversation piece for most of the world --- to Jews it is all that stands between them & utter annihilation.
The plain fact & honest truth is: that when it comes down to brass tacks, it doesn’t matter that there has been a majority Jewish population in Jerusalem for over 3000 years; it doesn’t matter that, according the 1948 U.N. partition, the land accorded to the Jews was only that land on which they already had majority populations; it doesn’t matter that the Jewish people settled for originally a piece of dirt that was about 2% of the size of Israel today; it doesn’t matter that after the U.N. ratified Israels RE-creation, as soon as the British lowered their flags, every Arab nation on Israel's borders attacked her, forcing the Israelis (with farm tools against machine guns & Molotov cocktails against tanks) to push outward in a fight for their lives, to repell an impending genocide; it doesn’t matter that the Israelis turned barren dessert into a flourishing agrarian economy; it doesn’t matter that there was NEVER an independent state of Palestine, just ancient Canaan, then Judea, which became a Roman colony (the Romans renamed it to Palestine to disconnect the Jewish people from their homeland), then an Ottoman Empire territory, & then a British mandate; it doesn’t matter that the "Palestinians" who claim a "right to return" are the very same ones that the Jewish leaders BEGGED not to leave when the Syrians promised genocide & "to drive every Jew into the sea" (the ones who stayed, enjoy equal rights, can vote, hold seats in parliament, & still live in their grandparents’ homes in Israle Proper); it doesn’t matter that the "West Bank" is really Trans-Jordan, or that "Gaza" is really Egypt; it doesn’t matter that the "moderate" Palestinian Fatah Party was created by Adolf Hitler in order to enlist the Arabs in routing the Jews from their ancestral home; it doesn’t matter that the "Palestinians" are the world’s only permanent refugees, or that according polls that the majority of "Palestinians" overwhelmingly would rather be assimilated into the countries that house their refugee camps (you see, most of the "Palestinian" population are actually Egyptians, like University of Cairo graduate Yasser Arafat, or Jordanians, or other foreigners descended from those who migrated into the majority Jewish areas of "Palestine" during the Jewish Renaissance & Economic Boom prior to WWII); it doesn’t matter that there was no outcry for European Jewish refugees after WWII, who the allies placed back in camps until they could "figure out what to do with them;" it doesn’t matter that prior to WWII there were vast populations of Jews in all of North Africa, & throughout the Arab & Persian Middle East, that they were expelled from their homes, accepted only by the Jews of "Palestine" & assimilated into the native population; it doesn’t matter that the only countries that assimilate & grant citizenship to Palestinians are Western Democracies (that Jordan will not grant citizenship to any, even to those "Palestinians" who were born in Jordan, in one of its refugee camps, or whose parents or grandparents or great-grandparents are actually Jordanian-born); it doesn’t matter that the Palestinians are purposefully kept in permanent refugee status in order to facilitate proxy wars with the only democracy in the region, & to shine the light away from the true oppressors in the Middle East, its dictrators, monarchs, sultans, & shahs; it doesn’t matter that the literacy rate for Arab Muslims in Israel is 80% GREATER than in the rest of the Arab world; it doesn’t matter that Israel is the only state in the Middle East to provide equal protection under law to women, minority groups, & to people of all faiths; it doesn’t matter that, next to the U.S., Israel provides the most food, fuel, & aid to the "Palestinians;" it doesn’t matter that Egypt & Jordan refuse to provide Gaza & the West Bank with electricity & clean water, which Israel provides in bulk daily --- none of this matters, & neither do the other countless examples of the world’s blind anti-Semitism & hypocrisy toward Israel. None of this matters because, frankly, if we were to be intellectually honest, NO country has the right to exist when the same standards applied to Israel are applied to them.
All the world’s borders are drawn by people, either for imperial gain, or for security --- or both. The simple reality is that all nations are created & kept by force of arms alone --- their [all nations'] "right" to exist comes simply from the fact that they do exist.
ISRAEL IS NO DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER NATION. However, when people claim she is, that she is somehow unique in a world of similar cases, or illegal alone in a wholly criminal world we [the Nation of Israel] know the reason why.