In the book, Lozowick draws on Just War theory, and particularly on Michael Walzer's work Just and Unjust Wars, in an attempt to evaluate Israel's wars in the light of moral philosophy.
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Ethan Bronner, in the New York Times, found the book a largely persuasive defence of Israel's positions morally and politically, but disputed the statement that there is no "cycle of violence", and that there is only one-sided aggression since Israel simply fights back against Palestinian terrorists.
Can't Exist | right to exist | Places That Don't Exist | ''All Things Exist'', oil on canvas painting by Tetsuo Ochikubo, c. 1960-1970, Honolulu Museum of Art |
Efraim Halevy, Guy Ben-Porat, Steven R. David, Julius Stone, and Ian Bremmer all agree the Khartoum Resolution amounted to a rejection of Israel's right to exist.
Keating then proceeds to explain why he thinks Israel has no right to exist, claiming that the Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars.
This came after a court battle which saw the Alliance's right to exist confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice.
In 2012, in response to Günter Grass's poem "Was gesagt werden muss" ("What Must Be Said") which criticized Israel's nuclear weapons program, Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor Itamar Yaoz-Kest published a poem entitled "The Right to Exist: a Poem-Letter to the German Author" which addresses Grass by name.