raghu wrote:
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Carl Dassbach <[email protected]> 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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