James Fishback
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Yeah.
Well, that's the issue.
Governments don't have a right to exist.
Rights can only be given to people by God and are then protected by government.
And so the question of whether Israel has a right to exist...
Jews have a right to exist.
Muslims have a right to exist.
Christians have a right to exist.
The Benjamin Netanyahu government doesn't have a right to exist forever without elections, without any accountability, without us saying, you know what, we're not going to send you five billion dollars that we have to borrow from China and put that debt on our kids and grandkids.
No, we're not doing this anymore.
So that's it's a it's a kind of a gotcha question.
They try to ask people, does Israel have a right to exist?
No country, quite literally no country has a right to exist.
No government has a right to exist because a government is only entitled to power if people consistently give it that power.
The second people push back and say, you know, we don't want this form of government anymore, it ceases to exist.
No one was asking whether Czechoslovakia had a right to exist or Rhodesia had a right to exist or whatever had a right to exist.
Countries don't have rights to exist.
People do.
And we don't want anyone to be persecuted to the ends of the earth.
What we do want is to make sure that every single person who's created in God's image has an equal worth, that they are protected.