{"id":1907,"date":"2024-02-07T12:14:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T12:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cigacriticalvoices.com\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2024-02-07T12:35:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T12:35:20","slug":"gaza-war-an-extension-of-israels-settler-colonial-project-in-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cigacriticalvoices.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/gaza-war-an-extension-of-israels-settler-colonial-project-in-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza War an Extension of Israel\u2019s Settler-Colonial Project in Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1907\" class=\"elementor elementor-1907\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ae99fec elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ae99fec\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-807ef2e\" data-id=\"807ef2e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc06fdf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fc06fdf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 18-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:right;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><strong><em>Israel&#8217;s current military offensive on Gaza unfolds as an extension of the Zionist enterprise&#8217;s settler-colonial strategy, with the objective of violently uprooting Palestine&#8217;s indigenous people and replacing them with Jewish communities worldwide<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f605272 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f605272\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dd4a6d8\" data-id=\"dd4a6d8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a75b56 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8a75b56\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>By: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cigacriticalvoices.com\/index.php\/professor-sami-al-arian\/\"><strong>Dr. Sami A. Al-Arian<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Voices\/ February 2024<\/strong><\/p><p><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cd76316 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cd76316\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a729047\" data-id=\"a729047\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0173017 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0173017\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A few years ago, American political scientist Bruce Gilley wrote a thought-provoking yet controversial<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.org\/academic-questions\/31\/2\/the_case_for_colonialism\">\u00a0piece<\/a>\u00a0about the legacy of colonialism. The thesis of his article was not only to defend colonialism but to make a case for why it should be \u201creclaimed\u201d, considered \u201clegitimate\u201d, and even \u201cresurrected\u201d.\u00a0<\/p><p>However, the author completely ignored the nature of the relationship between the coloniser and colonised \u2013 that is, the relationship relying upon the total control of the coloniser and their absolute domination over the colonised.\u00a0<\/p><p>The legacy of imperialist European powers over much of Asia, Africa and Latin America goes back centuries. European colonisers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/01\/world\/european-colonization-climate-change-trnd\/index.html\">killed<\/a>\u00a0tens of millions of indigenous people across North and South America.\u00a0<\/p><p>Belgium killed over ten million Congolese people alone between 1835 and 1840, while the Dutch killed over 300,000 people in Indonesia during the same period. France killed more than 1.5 million Algerians during its 132-year occupation starting in 1830. Italy wiped out millions of Libyans, while Britain starved perhaps as many as 35 million people in India during its 89-year occupation.\u00a0<\/p><p>Colonisers hide their colonial expeditions under the mantra of \u201cspreading Western civilisation\u201d. They obscure their real purpose and quest for wealth, control, and power by calling their campaigns \u201cmandates\u201d, \u201cprotectorates\u201d, and \u201ccommonwealths\u201d.\u00a0<\/p><p>They use massacres, destruction, and mayhem, not just against peoples and societies but also against cultures, traditions, history, and memory.\u00a0<\/p><p>They apply all means, ways, and tools, as nothing is beyond their limit: divide and conquer, bribe and pamper, kill and lynch; essentially, they employ all tools of death, especially if one dares to resist.\u00a0<\/p><p>They have the guns and powder, the bombs and planes, the tanks and artillery; massacring, oppressing, starving, torturing, transferring, exiling, enslaving, dehumanising, raping, pillaging, and looting, all in the name of \u201cthe White man\u2019s burden to liberate dark-skinned peoples\u201d.\u00a0<\/p><p>Oftentimes, colonisers came with the aura of the Puritans and civilised people, moralising and evangelising \u2013 gun in one hand and the Bible in the other.\u00a0<\/p><p>The justification for their dehumanisation was to claim that their victims could \u201cfeel no pain\u201d, that \u201cthe only language they understand is force\u201d, that \u201cthe Black man\u2019s brain is different,\u201d that the other races, be it African, Arab, Indian, or Asian are \u201cinferior,\u201d or \u201cbarbarians, fanatics, radicals, fundamentalists, terrorists, backwards, extremists, ignorant, uncivilised\u201d; that they don\u2019t respect \u201ctheir women\u201d or \u201claw and order,\u201d and \u201ccannot be trusted.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>Any resistance or opposition to the colonial project must then be crushed and annihilated, destroyed and obliterated.\u00a0<\/p><p>In order to end colonisation, Poka Laenui reminds us, the colonised usually goes through several<a href=\"http:\/\/www.josimalaya.com\/5-stages-of-decolonization.html\">\u00a0stages<\/a>\u00a0of the decolonisation process: discovery and recovery, mourning, dreaming, commitment, and action.\u00a0<\/p><p>The last phase would usually entail resistance in its comprehensive forms, political, economic, social, and cultural, as well as the prospect of resorting to armed struggle.\u00a0<\/p><p>After over a century of the Zionist onslaught, it\u2019s this last stage, action and resistance, that the Palestinian people are now undergoing.<\/p><p>For over a century, the Palestinian cause has represented one of the last vestiges of the decolonial struggle. From its inception in the late 19th century, the Zionist enterprise was organised as a settler-colonial movement with the goal of violently uprooting the indigenous people of Palestine and replacing them with Jewish communities from around the world.\u00a0<\/p><p>To realise this goal, Zionism has, throughout its long history, utilised three paradoxical narratives.\u00a0<\/p><p>The first was to manipulate the belief that Jews are not only the chosen people but also belong to the \u201cenlightened\u201d Western historical experience.\u00a0<\/p><p>Hence, they constitute the \u201cIsraeli exceptionalism\u201d paradigm, just like the examples of European or American exceptionalism in bygone eras, and therefore represent a continuation of the West\u2019s civilising mission.\u00a0<\/p><p>Their second notion was to ironically argue that they had historically been the victims of European racism, abuse and persecution, culminating in the pogroms and Nazi Holocaust.\u00a0<\/p><p>Consequently, such enormous suffering would then be used to justify their settler-colonial project, or as the former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir once<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/holocaust-makes-israelis-think-international-law-doesn-t-apply-1.1924554\">\u00a0put<\/a>\u00a0it: \u201cAfter the Holocaust, Jews have the right to do anything they want,\u201d since they are the ultimate &#8216;victims&#8217;.<\/p><p>But in order to carry out the Zionist enterprise to its eventual objective of brutally uprooting Palestine\u2019s indigenous population, a third narrative had to be constructed. At its core, it\u2019s to dehumanise and degrade their Arab victims, particularly the Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p><p>From early on, Zionist leaders were very explicit about their plans to force and drive out the Palestinians from their homes in an ethnic cleansing campaign.\u00a0<\/p><p>Like other settler-colonialists, Israeli prime ministers and other high-ranking leaders have for years used demeaning and disparaging language when<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miftah.org\/Doc\/Factsheets\/Other\/mar11a2k3.html\">talking<\/a>\u00a0about the Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p><p>One described them as \u201cgrasshoppers\u201d that need to be \u201ccrushed\u201d and their \u201cheads smashed against the boulders and walls\u201d.\u00a0<\/p><p>Another called them \u201cbeasts walking on two legs,\u201d while a third has recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/israel-paints-palestinians-as-animals-to-legitimize-war-crimes-israeli-scholar\/3030278\">pronounced<\/a>\u00a0them \u201chuman animals\u201d. Furthermore, one official proclaimed that Zionists \u201chave to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves\u201d.\u00a0<\/p><p>Another candidly professed that \u201cthere is no Zionism, colonisation or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>During the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/magazine\/what-is-nakba-the-day-when-palestine-s-ethnic-cleansing-began-explained-46728\">1948 Nakba<\/a>, one Israeli official coldly admitted: \u201cWe must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting off of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>Indeed, what the world is witnessing in Gaza today is simply a continuation of the Israeli onslaught to exterminate the Palestinians in order to make more room for the expansion and re-entrenchment of the Zionist enterprise. They hardly<a href=\"https:\/\/thecradle.co\/articles-id\/18\">\u00a0try<\/a>\u00a0to hide it.<\/p><p>Since 1948, the Zionist state has employed colonial strategies and adopted varying policies to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p><p>It uses tactics such as forced expulsions, confiscation and annexation of territories and holy shrines, the erection of a security state, the institutionalisation of an ID system based on ethnicity and the establishment of Jewish-only colonies\/settlements.\u00a0<\/p><p>Besides, Israel has other methods of segregation and oppression: the construction of separate roads for Israeli citizens, the use of hundreds of military checkpoints for Arabs in the occupied West Bank, the control of Palestinian economic life and institutions, the use of assassinations as a tool to eliminate thousands, as well as countless other schemes to usurp Palestinian properties and exclude as many Palestinians from their historical land as possible.\u00a0<\/p><p>Israel has also enforced a crippling siege over Gaza for more than 16 years before it launched the genocidal and destructive war against its people over the past four months.<\/p><p>In addition, the Israeli regime imposes a form of \u201ccultural imperialism,\u201d as it seeks to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2023\/01\/israel-opt-flag-restrictions-are-the-latest-attempt-to-silence-palestinians-and-reduce-their-visibility\/\">\u00a0control<\/a>\u00a0what Palestinians<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/10350330.2017.1339470\">\u00a0read<\/a>, say, discuss, believe or<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2019\/12\/17\/born-without-civil-rights\/israels-use-draconian-military-orders-repress\">\u00a0think<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p>As the late Palestinian intellectual Edward Said<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supersummary.com\/culture-and-imperialism\/summary\/\">\u00a0explains<\/a>: \u201cThe power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism, and constitutes one of the main connections between them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>In short, the legacy of Zionism in Palestine is not unique but should rather be seen as a continuation of a decolonial struggle against a settler-colonial enterprise with a supremacist and racist ideology aided by an aggressive militarised structure.\u00a0<\/p><p>But even though the Zionist colonial project has survived for over a century, it has not yet reached its ultimate objective of completely pacifying the indigenous population. This is due to two main reasons, which are ironically paradoxical as they compete against each other.\u00a0<\/p><p>The first is that the Zionist enterprise has endured because it has been supported and nourished by international powers such as the US, the UK, and other European nations. This has been witnessed in full display in the latest Israeli assault on Gaza.\u00a0<\/p><p>Unsurprisingly, the greater American and European backing Israel gets, the more obstinate and aggressive it becomes.<\/p><p>But the second important reason that Zionism has been unable to proclaim a conclusive victory is the resilience and resistance of the Palestinian people, which has also been recently demonstrated in abundance.\u00a0<\/p><p>These competing forces may very well determine the future of the Palestinian decolonial struggle.<\/p><p>For centuries, colonialism was a hammer that saw every colonised community as a nail. But as Franz Fanon observed, \u201cIn the colonial context, the settler only ends his work of breaking the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man\u2019s values.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p>Our challenge is and has always been the capacity of the colonised Palestinian to first say no, and to continue to resist, until the Zionist coloniser is repelled and defeated. And then to cleanse our colonised minds from all the harmful effects and manifestations of the Zionist colonial experience and rebuild a new society.\u00a0<\/p><p>This is the essence of the current struggle to break free in Gaza, across Palestine, and beyond.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>This article was originally published by <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/opinion\/gaza-war-an-extension-of-israels-settler-colonial-project-in-palestine-16888251\"><strong>TRT World<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dec0b24 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dec0b24\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c726c51\" data-id=\"c726c51\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fedfd4a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fedfd4a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cigacriticalvoices.com\/index.php\/professor-sami-al-arian\/\"><strong>Dr. Sami A. Al-Arian<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0e9d27c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0e9d27c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b269b8b\" data-id=\"b269b8b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efd149f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"efd149f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 18-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/cigacriticalvoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/alarian-s.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-155\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cigacriticalvoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/alarian-s.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cigacriticalvoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/alarian-s-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2a9745f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2a9745f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1b41921\" data-id=\"1b41921\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c0473f1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c0473f1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-be3e23e\" data-id=\"be3e23e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a9b9e1d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a9b9e1d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>He is Public Affairs Professor and Director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) at Istanbul Zaim University.<\/p><p>He received his PhD in Computer Engineering in 1986 and was a tenured academic in the US for two decades receiving best teaching awards at the University of South Florida (1993 and 1994) and several grants, as well as having over forty publications to his credit.<\/p><p>During his four decades in the US (1975-2015), Dr. Al-Arian founded numerous institutions and publications in the fields of education, research, religion and interfaith, as well as civil and human rights. He was a prolific speaker across many US campuses, especially on Palestine, Islam and the West, and Civil Rights. In 2001, he was named by Newsweek the \u201cpremiere civil rights activist\u201d in the US for his efforts to repeal the use of Secret Evidence in immigration courts. In 2012, he was profiled by historians in the Encyclopedia of American Dissidents as one of only three Muslims in the US out of 152 dissidents and prisoners of conscience that were included in the series in the past century (along with Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali).\u00a0 His US story was featured in 2007 in the award-winning documentary \u201cUS vs. Al-Arian,\u201d and in 2016 in the book \u201cBeing Palestinian.\u201d<\/p><p>Dr. Al-Arian has written several studies and numerous articles focusing on US foreign policy, Palestine, and the Arab Spring phenomena. His book of poetry on Spirituality, Palestine, and Human Rights Conspiring Against Joseph was published in 2004. He is also the author of The Arab Awakening Unveiled: Understanding Transformations and Revolutions in the Middle East, Washington, DC, American Educational Trust, 2013 (under a pen name) and The United States and Israel: From Enabler to Strategic Partner, IZU Publications, 2019.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s current military offensive on Gaza unfolds as an extension of the Zionist enterprise&#8217;s settler-colonial strategy, with the objective of violently uprooting Palestine&#8217;s indigenous people and replacing them with Jewish communities worldwide \u00a0 By: Dr. Sami A. 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