For the Palestinians, the trauma is blatantly clear, as they are denied their basic rights, the right to self-determination and to ownership over the land they call home.
When Jews stood before the council, and asked that it recognize the Jewish right to self-determination, a basic right for all people, people in the room laughed.
For instance, the Norwegian regulation for quality of nursing care in health and social services [ 19] states that the regulation has as its purpose to 'assure that users of health and social services have their basic needs met, acknowledging the individual's right to self-determination, value of selfhood and individual life style' (p1).
To adapt the prime minister's own schema, he finds himself defending the most basic rights of Libyans, namely freedom from brutal repression and the right to self-determination, with bombs dropped from 40,000 feet.So is Mr Cameron perforce adopting Mr Blair's doctrine of liberal interventionism?
It is not preventing a people from exercising their right to self-determination, denying them freedom and the most basic of human rights.
"We were deprived of our right to self-determination.
"We believe in the Falkland islanders' right to self-determination.
She went on, "It took away our right to self-determination, self-governance, and democracy".
From India to Czechoslovakia, South Africa to Poland, they declared their right to self-determination.
Its stated goal was to affirm the right to self-determination while demonizing globalization.
