The response, by those who feel excluded or marginalised, is to simply ignore the state and go their own way – as Fattah puts it, "to create an alternative system to the central authority and to replace formal and legitimate channels of state-society communication with their own system".
On one side, formal organizations legitimate their decisions by acknowledging in advance that they do not know which outcome these decisions will have [70].
If they blink and actually legitimate -- in a formal agreement -- any Israeli settler activity, they will not only be condoning a breach of international law but they will be validating the Israeli position that this conflict is all about demographics.
If we assume that through the instruments of its law a state has or ought to have the formal aim of legitimate government, we should ask whether there are any principled limits to the law?
The fact that most respondents defined evidence as a formal entity where legitimate and concrete data are collected and processed could be a reflection of why formal types of evidence (research and survey data and reports, etc).
In Asia, funds are often mixed with legitimate business proceeds, and transferred via formal and informal banking systems.
