Re: [Pen-l] Gaza

[Carl Dassbach <dassbach@xxxxxxx>]

raghu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Carl Dassbach <dassbach@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > I would
> > think that it would need access to the sea, a considerable piece of
> > territory, perhaps territory that the Israeli do not wish to give up, an
> > army, a currency, self-rule etc.
> >     
>
> Why would any state "need" an army?
> -raghu.
>
> --
> "We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter
> stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife."
>   
States are armed bodies of men (Lenin) or the legitimate use of force 
within a prescribed area (Weber).  States are inseparable from both the 
use of force and the maintenance of a monopoly over the use of force.  
States use force to protect against external aggression and to reconcile 
internal contradictions in the best overall interests of the dominant 
class.  A Palestinian state would require an Army - an armed body of men 
- because of both the continued threat of external aggression (do you 
think it would end, I don't) as well as reconciling internal 
contradictions such as, (but I am certain not limited to) the 
disagreements between Hamas and Fatah.

CHAD
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