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    22 hours ago

    Nothing I wrote supports the assertion that “israel has any intention of keeping Gaza intact”.

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      22 hours ago

      (e.g., “it has the right to exist as a Gaza-sized enclave in the area of present day Tel-Aviv, subjected to the same conditions currently applied by Israel to Gaza").

      The conditions applied to Gaza by Isreal do NOT respect its right to exist.

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        22 hours ago

        I specifically brought up this fictional horror scenario as an example of genocidal thinking, with the intent precisely to distinguish between the fictional “right to exist” of a state and the very real “right to exist” of a people.

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          17 hours ago

          Interestingly enough, it was argued many times over by Plato in his writings that the purpose of having a family, getting married, etc. is the value it would bring to the State.

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            Plato was writing about the Polis. That is a much different polity and a much different socio-cultural milieu that any kind of mass modern nation-state.