I think that everyone is kinda missing the point here. Israel may or
may not be disputed, it may or may not be illegitimate but it does
exist. It doesn't matter if it's a country or not. The following link
is a list of categories on wikinews:
http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Categories
how many of them are countries? does it matter that by far the
majority aren't? no. Why does Israel have to be a country to have a
category? Does the Africa category say it isn't a country?
The whole debate is entirely irrelevent. Having a cateogry "Israel" is
making no judgement on israel's legitimacy it just reflects the
undeniable fact that there is a thing which is called Israel. The fact
that it is a category implies on other claim.
paz
-rjs.
On 23/10/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 22/10/06, divol <jacques.divol(a)laposte.net>
wrote:
i am half joking but i have no better answer.
Better than pretending to have one (as I'm about to do).
in fact, the bias is : a country does not need
the recognition/
acknolegment of anyone.
a country exists by itself.
it's strange that everybody forget that fact...
I would support this positions although they would put us in a
difficult position. It would require us to acknologe autonomous
breakaway cities/towns (so called [[Micronations]]): Sealand and
whatnot. This wouldn't necessarily be bad.
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