Ignoring for the moment whether a state as such can have any rights at all (it can’t), we can ask: does a state have the right to “defend” itself against the people it subjugates?
Horton Debates Mossad Chief
Seriously. Piers Morgan had me on with John Kiriakou, The Dersh and Danny Yatom, the former head of Israeli intelligence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwCTktxy0ho