Doesn't Israel have a right to stop foreign intervention?

The question is a good one but is badly phrased. Foreign government intervention in what Israel does in the Occupied Territories is perfectly appropriate for several reasons:

(1) The Occupied Territories are not within the state of Israel, nor are their Palestinian residents citizens of Israel, so it is hard to argue that foreign governments are interfering in the "internal affairs" of Israel;

(2) The very point of the conception of human rights is that they are universal and must be safeguarded not only by particular governments (Israel, for example, is required to safeguard Palestinian rights by the Fourth Geneva Convention, which it does not do and which it violates with impunity ? by building settlements in an occupied territory, for example, or limiting Palestinians' right to freedom of movement or taking their water for use in Israel and in its settlements), but by the entire international community.

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