By: Christopher Peter

Christopher Peter
Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:25:23 +0000

Great article. The irony of all this Israel-as-colonial-oppressors versus plucky dispossessed Palestine is that, of course. the whole concept of “Palestine” as a single state is in itself a product of imperialism. There was the mandated Palestinian territory ruled by the British in the first half of the 20th century, but what existed before that? There never was a single, independent “Palestine”. To be sure, ancestors of modern-day Palestinians lived in that region (as did the Jews) but always under the sway of various other states or empires, the British being only the most recent of the latter.

Whereas there was certainly an independent Jewish state (or for a time, two states) there in the distant past – quite a lot about that in the Bible. You could easily claim, in fact, that a Palestinian state is more of a colonial invention than a Jewish one.