Mija 70 rocznica Nakby(katastrofy) - czyli krwawej czystki etnicznej dokonanej przez Izrael 70 lat temu na ludności palestyńskiej - w formule sensu stricto kolonialnej. Kulisy tej operacji zostały przedstawione w wątku zatytułowanym "Kulisy wielkiego podziału" (www.racjonalista.pl/forum.php/s,677619). W wątku niniejszym, zainteresowanym problematyką, podaję link do trzech bieżących opracowań na temat, zawierających spojrzenie na problem z różnych, polityczno - światopoglądowych, punktów widzenia.

"While the Israelis are the most powerful nation in the region, how long can they keep 2 million Palestinian Arabs confined in the penal colony that is the Gaza Strip? How long can they keep the 2 million Palestinians of the West Bank living in conditions even Israeli leaders have begun to compare to apartheid? Across the West, especially in universities, a BDS movement to have students, companies and consumers boycott, divest and sanction Israeli-produced products has been gaining ground.
The Palestinians may have been abandoned by Arab rulers and the wider world. Yet, history teaches that people forced to survive in such conditions eventually rise in rebellion and revolution, take revenge, and exact retribution for what was done to them and their own." (buchanan.o(*)-troubled-hour-of-power-129322)

"Land Without a People?
In the late 19th century, Zionism emerged as a movement for the reestablishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire. Although Jews ruled over kingdoms there more than 2,000 years ago, they never numbered more than around 10 percent of the population from antiquity through the early 1900s. A key premise of Zionism is what literary theorist Edward Said called the "excluded presence" of Palestine's indigenous population; a central myth of early Zionists was that Palestine was a "land without a people for a people without a land." At its core, Zionism is a settler-colonial movement of white, European usurpers supplanting Arabs they often viewed as inferior or backwards. Theodore Herzl, father of modern political Zionism, envisioned a Jewish state in Palestine as "an outpost of civilization opposed to barbarism." Other early Zionists warned against this sort of thinking. The great Hebrew essayist Ahad Ha'am wrote:
"We... are accustomed to believing that Arabs are all wild desert people who, like donkeys, neither see nor understand what is happening around them. But this is a grave mistake. The Arabs... see and understand what we are doing and what we wish to do on the land. If the time comes that [we] develop to a point where we are taking their place... the natives are not going to just step aside so easily."
(www.counte(*)-side-of-israeli-independence/

"Israel has for decades rejected a two-state solution based on a complete withdrawal from the territories occupied in the June 1967 War (Gaza and the West Bank), with East Jerusalem as the Palestinian's capital. This compromise-grounded in international law and backed by international consensus and human rights organizations-also includes the "right of return" for refugees in exchange for total recognition of Israel within its borders from before the 1967 war. Since 1967, Israel has militarily occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem such that, according to Amnesty International, "people's entire lives are effectively held hostage by Israel."
While occupied people are, under international law, allowed to violently resist, as a strategic matter, military defeat of Israel is unlikely. It possesses the strongest military in the region. Mass nonviolent civil disobedience, on the other hand, has and will continue to garner international sympathy and support. As the recent events in Gaza make clear, it is difficult to defend the massacre of unarmed protesters. This is why Israel regularly portrays nonviolent tactics as violent.Israel has consistently failed to sincerely compromise, it has suppressed Palestinian nonviolent efforts to push for better offers, and then claimed that it is not possible to negotiate with violent Palestinians. Given these facts, one must conclude that chief responsibility for the deadlock in achieving peace lies with Israel."
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