“Israel is, by definition, a European colony”, by Aaron Tordjman
One hundred years after the Balfour declaration, Aaron Tordjman publishes in Haaretz, a clear answer to the question: "How is it that Palestine, an integral part of the Middle East, and a piece of land inhabited since antiquity by an oriental population having adopted, for more than a millennium, the Arabic culture and language, following the example of Syria, Egypt or Algeria, or, in a hundred years, become a State populated by migrants from all over the world? “
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We will also wonder to understand how the original population of Palestine is dispersed in refugee camps, a part being subjected to a military power of occupation, and a minority of them, only, having citizenship in the new immigrant state, which sees itself as part of the West. The answers to these questions are situated in a context outside of which the conflict between Zionism and the Arab world remains incomprehensible, namely: colonialism.
The picture is well known: European migrants colonize by force, despite the resistance of the natives. They create a separate society, taking advantage of their military and organizational superiority, to oust the indigenous populations and dominate the territory. Often, they replace the original population, expelled or victims of genocide. More or less, the same story played out in Australia, North America, South Africa, and other places where European migrants came to settle.
The story is not fundamentally different in Palestine, although several generations of Zionist indoctrination, punctuated with invented myths and appropriate narratives to serve the immigrant population, have attempted to reverse this reality, in order to provide support rational to what remains essentially a colonial enterprise of dispossession, which continues to this day.
Supporters of Zionism emphasize its difference from other colonization movements: absence of a metropolitan state, invocation by the Zionists of a divine promise, or even of the “historic rights” of the “Jewish people”. However, the man's religious belief and a theory of his ancestral origins do not give him any rights. These are the feet of clay on which the theoretical giant of Zionism stands, and with it the system of indoctrination in Israel aimed at formatting every child from an early age.
These erroneous presuppositions also give rise to the symmetrical vision of the Zionists who see in the conflict a confrontation between "two national movements", two occupants claiming an equally legitimate right of ownership over the so-called land. But this is, of course, a false symmetry: the Gryn, Shertok, Bégin, Yezernitski and Milikowski families, who came from Poland and Russia, just like the Osterman family, who became Avneri, who came from Germany, have no right to the distant piece of land, simply because of their religious belief, or the theory invoked of their ancestral origins. https://en.reseauinternational.net/israel-est-
