Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? by Maxime Rodinson

Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? Maxime Rodinson ebook
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ISBN: 0873488660, 9780873488662
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Whatever its root cause, the current support of the black political class for Israel's maintenance of a colonial settler state constitutes a massive, hypocritical hole in their collective souls. €WE SHOULD HAVE SLAUGHTERED THE ARABS OF HEBRON ONE BY ONE”: IS ISRAEL A COLONIAL SETTLER STATE? Edward Said offers us a pertinent definition of imperialism, and settler colonialism. In Israel, moreover, settler-colonialism is not something that belongs to its past. Israel is a settler colonial state. By Maxime Rodinson Download Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? Therefore, the classification of the Zionist movement as a settler colonial project, and the Israeli state as its manifestation, is not merely intended as a statement on the historical origins of Israel, nor as a rhetorical or polemical device. It is undeniable that Israel is a colonial settler state for European Jews that was founded on the backs of dispossessing the natives (Palestinians, Arabs, whatever you want to call them). Israel as an expression of the democratic yearnings of an oppressed people, as opposed to being an imperial manipulation of historical crimes against the Jewish people to justify a colonial-settler state on Palestinian land. He must also be aware his propaganda efforts and the House Muslims in attendance at his Iftar dinner will not hide the racist nature of the Israeli colonial-settler state nor confer any legitimacy on the Zionist project. Khalil Maqdesi: Our understanding, in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, of our enemy and of our conflict with this enemy, Israel, is very clear. The construction of Jewish homes on Palestinian land is testament to its territorial ambitions. Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? Funny how most of you support the peace process and reconciliation in the six counties, whereas Israel is a “colonial settler state.” But then, there always was that tradition, wasn 't there? As this colonial project grew through subsequent years, the indigenous Palestinians reacted with occasional bouts of violence; Zionists had anticipated this since people usually resist being expelled from their land. Israel is a colonial settler state whose intent is to remove the indigenous peoples by whatever means possible. President Obama must have recognized that Israel is a colonial-settler state seeking Palestinian lands pretty much the way the French settlers came to Algeria and the British colonialists came to Kenya in the last two centuries. Israel is also the only exclusionary colonial-settler state established by the modern Europeans anywhere in the Old World. On the other hand, the state of Israel's vaunted “right to exist” is based on an alleged “right” derived from might, an outmoded concept that international legal conventions do not recognize and in fact specifically prohibit.