Israel’s Right to Exist in Semantic Hell

Mihaela Măncilă

A fierce debate broke out this week across the Atlantic that will be familiar to Americans, one that jousted over the hollow notion of Israel’s “right to exist.” On the British political show Peston, its eponymous host Robert Peston asked far-left Green Party leader Zack Polanski directly: “Israel has a right to exist? Yes or no?” Polanski, who is Jewish, replied , “I don’t believe any country has a right to exist. People have a right to exist,” then blamed “semantics” about state existence for

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