Mon premier blog

Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? by Maxime Rodinson

Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? Maxime Rodinson ebook
Format: pdf
Publisher:
Page: 114
ISBN: 0873488660, 9780873488662

Israel is also the only exclusionary colonial-settler state established by the modern Europeans anywhere in the Old World. Israel is little more than half a century old. Operation Cast Lead was one of many wars, and many massacres, that the Israeli settler colonial regime had inflicted in plain sight on its Palestinian subjects, but this 21st century settler colonialism and apartheid was finally becoming more difficult to evade in the U.S., even within the academic portals of the state that funded and legitimized Israel's military occupation, wars, and racist policies. Rodinson, Maxime, Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?, trans. In Israel, moreover, settler-colonialism is not something that belongs to its past. This forcible appropriation of Palestinian property, much of it valuable agricultural and mineral producing land, continues on an everyday basis in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem for the benefit of Israeli “settlers” who, protected by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), harass the supplanted Palestinians. First of all, let's be clear: Israel is a colonial-settler and apartheid state. Israel is the world's last colonial settler state that openly proclaims its right to steal the land of the local people and exclude them from democratic rights. Both apartheid South Africa and Zionist Israel were colonial, settler states created on the basis of the dispossession of the land and birthright of indigenous people. Israel expands this land-grab with the construction . UK 2008-3344with an Introduction by Peter BuchMONADPRESS, NEW YORKDISTRIBUTED BY PATHFINDER PRESS, INC. 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. ISRAEL A ColonialSettler State?