| > Some prominent israeli politicians routinely declare that they are the vanguard and front line protection of 'Western civilisation' Also true in Russia and Hungary, for the West, and India, China, Turkey and Kentucky for other movements. > Back in 2007 or so polls among israeli teens showed that almost every young israeli jew believed that "arabs" are intellectually inferior Tigrayans for central Ethiopians, et cetera. > Large portions of israeli society support ethnic cleansing among citizens Literally every ethnonationalistic war. This analysis is what I’m talking about. Everything you say is true. None of it is unique to settler colonialism. A lot of American think tank thought on Israel and Palestine is frankly colonial, in terms of people on one continent making moral declarations and conclusions on how maps should be drawn on another, than anything going on in the Middle East, which is closer to bog standard human horribleness. New Yorkers criticising American weapons shipments to Tel Aviv is legitimate. People who have never been to Israel or Palestine deciding they know where their borders should be drawn is arrogant. |
Israel is a colonial enterprise, sustained by colonial practices and ruled largely through the displacement of indigenous populations by settlers.
The current crisis in Palestine is hugely damaging to the international judicial order and moves the limits of possible conduct in armed conflict, in Ukraine as well as in Sudan and elsewhere. Many states have shown themselves to be sorely lacking in legitimacy over the last couple of years and will likely suffer quite a bit of unrest for this and related reasons.
I live in such a state, that has also recently come under continous US military presence. This makes this issue important to me.