There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.
A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.
Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.
We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.
For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.
The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established.
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.