User blog comment:Daxus Inferno/Real Countries?/@comment-2159942-20130331175357/@comment-4998912-20130401225736

Legally speaking, Israel is in fact illegitimate. When its creation was debated in the UN, Jews and Palestinian Arabs had to vote unanimously for the state. Even though the Arabs voted no, the UN made Israel anyway. Tibet is a whole different story. They declared independence after the Xinhai revolution destroyed the Qing dynasty. They existed for several decades until Mao invaded and reannexed Tibet back into China. Therefore they are not a real country, though they exercise certain autonomy within their borders.