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Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? by Maxime Rodinson

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

Model than the South African one. USA say NOT a word against them. Israel as a colonial settler state. Zionism is viewed as a colonial-settler project, not a national liberation movement. 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. But the same USA has a gall to teach "democracy" to Russia. Israel is little more than half a century old. Its particular aims, “based not on exploiting the labor of the indigenous people but aiming to exclude and expel them,” are more characteristic of the U.S. Edward Said offers us a pertinent definition of imperialism, and settler colonialism. And this is no accident: both are instances of the genus colonial settler state. Israel is a settler colonial state. (275) The fact that the Israeli state is not only a product of this settler project, but a force for its extension and expansion, produces the ever-present danger of new ethnic cleansing. Israel is a colonial settler state. Indeed, Israel and apartheid South Africa were, until the latter's demise, the last two surviving active instances of this genus. Its official church is murderously racist - just as it has to be in such case. 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. The current state of Israel, supported unequivocally by Canada and the U.S.