[Atlantic Monthly ] Megan McArdle - The justification for Israel, like the justification for Northern Ireland, is simply that it exists. The people are there and they are not going anywhere. The wrongs of yesteryear cannot be righted without doing further injustice, so whatever the rightness or wrongness of their cause, the Palestinians are going to have to accept that they cannot have things as they would have been if Zionism had not happened.
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