RE: Palestine: the things you don’t hear about
SUBTOPIC: Knowledge Base
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There is no question - but that you have a very limited understanding of the Concept of Self-Determination.
Self determination is for the people of the place not for the people from someplace else.
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It is not uncommon for the Pro-Palestinian and Anti-Israeli Movements to shave or alter the meaning of technical phrases in order to make it appear to fit their agenda or counter an opposing view.
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Self-determination is a highly contentious concept that encompasses a variety of meanings and political claims. Each of these claims is based on the theory that particular population groups possess an inherent right to control their own political institutions. The term has been used in at least three different ways. First,
self-determination can refer to the collective right of a defined ethnic, linguistic, cultural, or religious community to create and administer their own state. This is often the foundation for an argument in favor of secession or irredentism, the doctrine that populations should live under the sovereignty of the country to which they are ethnically or culturally related regardless of existing juridical borders. Second, it can refer to the right of a population to decide how they will be governed and who will represent them in government, the bedrock of democratic theory. Finally, the concept of self-determination also represents the claim that all states and societies have the right to determine their own political, economic, and social institutions. In this sense, it is synonymous with the principle of sovereignty and nonintervention, reflecting one of the most important concepts in diplomatic practice and international law. More specifically, the principle of self-determination has been advanced by populations challenging the role of foreign powers in influencing their governments and its political structures. This claim has long been associated with anticolonial resistance movements and, following decolonization, with efforts by popular movements to challenge intervention by foreign powers in their internal affairs.
EXCERPT FROM: International Encyclopedia of Political Science / edited by Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Leonardo Morlino. Copyright © 2011 by SAGE Publications, Inc. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, California 91320, pg2394
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