In a chapter published by Scott Burchill in “Misunderstanding International Relations”, Burchill spoke about the idea of “the right to exist”; it becomes very popular while talking about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from the Israeli side.

But the author argues that the claim of such right by Israeli negotiators was first invoked as a negotiating strategy in the 1980s as a way of blocking a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict by erecting an insurmountable barrier for their counterparts,

thus portraying the Palestinian leadership as obstacles to a peace settlement. He concluded that States have no “right to exist”.

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