georgephillip
Diamond Member
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the outcome of a century long colonial occupation by Zionists and later Israel that would never have been successful without imperial backing by the British and US.
The Zionist Colonization of Palestine
"Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, in his book “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonization and Resistance, 1917-2017' has meticulously documented this long project of colonization of Palestine..."
"'This is a unique colonialism that we’ve been subjected to where they have no use for us,' Khalidi quotes Said as having written. 'The best Palestinian for them,' Said wrote, 'is either dead or gone.'"
Zionism was born in the savage pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe during the late 19th century and early 20th century, yet Britain's support for a Jewish homeland was always colored by anti-Semitism.
"The Jewish colonizers knew they needed an imperial patron to succeed and survive.
"Their first patron was Britain, which sent 100,000 troops to crush the Palestinian revolt of the 1930s and armed and trained Jewish militias known as the Haganah.
"The savage repression of that revolt included wholesale executions and aerial bombardment and left 10% of the adult male Arab population killed, wounded, imprisoned or exiled."
The Zionist Colonization of Palestine
"Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, in his book “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonization and Resistance, 1917-2017' has meticulously documented this long project of colonization of Palestine..."
"'This is a unique colonialism that we’ve been subjected to where they have no use for us,' Khalidi quotes Said as having written. 'The best Palestinian for them,' Said wrote, 'is either dead or gone.'"
Zionism was born in the savage pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe during the late 19th century and early 20th century, yet Britain's support for a Jewish homeland was always colored by anti-Semitism.
"The Jewish colonizers knew they needed an imperial patron to succeed and survive.
"Their first patron was Britain, which sent 100,000 troops to crush the Palestinian revolt of the 1930s and armed and trained Jewish militias known as the Haganah.
"The savage repression of that revolt included wholesale executions and aerial bombardment and left 10% of the adult male Arab population killed, wounded, imprisoned or exiled."