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Long story short the DEBATE is about why Palestine refuses to recognize Israel and I think it's because it means they'd have to renounce terror and fight within geneva convenetions.
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"the so-called sacred and inalienable rights of man prove to be completely unprotected at the very moment it is no longer possible to characterize them as rights of the citizens of a state." - Giorgio Agamben
So, then, is non-recognizance a strategy employed by both sides in order to justify acts of brutality? While liberal thought holds that natural human rights form the ground for civil rights, in a pragmatic sense those human rights are meaningless when not integrated into a legalistic framework.