Jim Devine wrote: > > does anyone know what Hezbollah's officially-stated attitude toward > Israel's "right to exist" is?
I don't know the answer to your question, but a few obserations on the general situation. In the abstract (and in the longish run) no apartheid state has any "right to exist" (except as it maintains that right through sheer force). And, also, the right of the _state_ to exist has to be distinguished from the right of its current citizens to remain citizens of any state that replaces it. Much Zionist propaganda implies that denial of the right of the _state_ of Israel to exist is equivalent to demanding the physical death of all Israelis. But in the present and the near present political reality requires that all parties acknowledge the continued existence of the state of Israel as a political fact. But given the apparently inherent aggressiveness of Israel it is possible that the only midterm (and certainly longterm) resolution is the formation of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious secular state of Palestine. (And probably, as in South Africa, that would result in continued economic oppression of Arab citizens of that state, but that is another question, faced by most nations in the world today.) Carrol
