What is THE question at the base of the conflict in Israel? Mark Pellegrino discusses the principle of legitimate statehood and why this means Israel is the only state in the Middle East entitled to defend itself.
00:00 What gives Israel the Right?…
What is THE question at the base of the conflict in Israel? Mark Pellegrino discusses the principle of legitimate statehood and why this means Israel is the only state in the Middle East entitled to defend itself.
00:00 What gives Israel the Right?
00:13 A brief history of Israel since 1948
01:05 Almost everyone fails to use principles
01:17 The principle of legitimate statehood
01:35 What is the definition of a state?
02:06 What makes a state legitimate?
02:22 The history of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank
02:55 The Enlightenment redefined legitimacy
03:39 Rights determine legitimacy
03:55 How does Israel compare to Gaza and the West Bank?
04:56 The rejection of every western moral norm
05:22 Israel is the only legitimate state in the Middle East
05:48 To the Palestinian people
From The Enlightenment on, any state that did not abide by the social moral principle of rights — which constrained the power of the state so that men could be free to act in their own interests — was not legitimate. The logic being that no state could claim a ‘right’ to exist that did not also respect the rights of its own citizens.That means that in the present, Rights determine legitimacy. And so it follows that the legitimacy of a state should be measured by the degree to which it fulfils this moral ideal.
Mark Pellegrino is a successful actor who appeared in Lost, Supernatural, Being Human, 13 Reasons Why, American Rust, The Closer, The Tomorrow People, Dexter, The Big Lebowski, Mulholland Drive, Capote and more. Mark teaches at Playhouse Paris, the acting school he and his wife founded in Paris. He is also a co-founder of the American Capitalist Party and a graduate of the Objectivist Academic Center. Mark Pellegrino stands with Israel.
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