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The Fight to Marginalize Delegitimization
(Atlantic Monthly) Jeffrey Goldberg - Jose Maria Aznar, the former prime minister of Spain, hosted a dinner Tuesday on behalf of his new organization, the Friends of Israel Initiative, dedicated to the proposition that Israel has a right to exist. Which is why I found the event so depressing. What other country, 62 years after its birth (rebirth, actually), requires advocates to argue that it should continue to exist? Why is it that the world's only Jewish country is the only country to persistently face questions about its own legitimacy?