“Left Wing” Zionism: How to Sell an Ethnostate by overzealots: It bothers me that this commentator repeats multiple times that states have to justify themselves to exist. States don’t need to take on a specific form to be legitimate. If their existence was inherently legitimate when possessing specific attributes, they wouldn’t need to employ as much force to ensure the continuity of their existence.

States don’t have to justify their existence because they hold the power to enforce their own existence. People take the amount of violence that states are ready to employ to ensure their existence for granted. States are inherently violent, and were they not, they wouldn’t be able to exist.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: States can’t have rights, period. People have rights, but that’s people. Rights only matter when an entity exists that has the power to violate or revoke them, and for states there is no higher entity than they themselves.