Analyzing Hannah Arendt’s “Right to Rights” Theory and the Issue of Establishing a Palestinian State

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1 PhD student, South Tehran Azad niversity, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, South Tehran Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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Human rights have gained great importance in the international system since the end of the Cold War. Hannah Arendt, a famous 20th-century philosopher, was involved in the issue of Zionism and Israel for more than three decades. She wrote hundreds of thousands of words, dozens of articles, and most famously, the book Eichmann in Jerusalem. She ridiculed the political sovereignty of the Jews. Arendt was a staunch opponent of Zionist achievements, including economic, political, intellectual, and social, in Palestine and later in the occupied territories, and expressed disgust with existing Zionism. She opposed the partition of Palestine and became a critic of the Israeli regime after the establishment of the state. Arendt strongly criticizes human rights, referring to the plight of stateless people during the war. She clearly states that a stateless person becomes intolerant of what is not protected by law, and therefore disobeys absolute power and commits illegal actions. The present study, by reviving her theories, including the famous theory of the right to enjoy rights, addresses her proposal to form a Palestinian confederation. 

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