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Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? Maxime Rodinson
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The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948. New York: Anchor Foundation/Pathfinder, 1973. Indeed, Israel and apartheid South Africa were, until the latter's demise, the last two surviving active instances of this genus. The invasion of Iraq was a war for oil and regional power. A stable and genuine democracy will be only possible in Egypt after imperialism's client states in the region are overthrown, especially the racist colonial settler state of Israel. In 1964 he opposed the proposition that Israel was a socialist state, in a debate with the Union of Jewish Students in France. Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? The Israeli colonial settler state would not exist without the financial and military backing of US imperialism, for which it serves as an outpost into the Arab/Muslim world and the oil fields. It is reducing farmers to beggars and strangulating Palestinian economy forcing the emergence of a captive labor force for the Israeli colonial settler state. On the eve of the 1967 war his Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? 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. And this is no accident: both are instances of the genus colonial settler state. Furthermore, Israel is indeed a settler state, yet Zionism is not colonialism and Israel is not a 'colonial settler State'.