Comments on: A Response To “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict 8″ http://blog.z-word.com/2008/10/a-response-to-%e2%80%9ca-cool-hour-on-the-israel-palestine-conflict-8/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Mon, 21 May 2012 13:25:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Alex Ross http://blog.z-word.com/2008/10/a-response-to-%e2%80%9ca-cool-hour-on-the-israel-palestine-conflict-8/#comment-1773 Alex Ross Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:21:46 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=459#comment-1773 I thought Sam Fleischacker missed a trick in not considering "remedial rights" of self-determination - i.e. rights that kick-in when there is a legitimate fear of persecution of a minority group within a larger polity. See for example, http://stanford.library.usyd.edu.au/entries/secession/. I would have thought that such a notion could lend support to the demands of the regional Jewish minority both prior to Israel's inception and in the present. I thought Sam Fleischacker missed a trick in not considering “remedial rights” of self-determination - i.e. rights that kick-in when there is a legitimate fear of persecution of a minority group within a larger polity. See for example, http://stanford.library.usyd.edu.au/entries/secession/.

I would have thought that such a notion could lend support to the demands of the regional Jewish minority both prior to Israel’s inception and in the present.

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