In case you - or anyone reading this - are unaware, the term covering the patterns you’re describing is ‘settler colonialism’. It differs from ‘exploitation colonialism’ in that it aims to not only profit from a territory, but to replace the population that is there with another population. What you describe are the logical consequences of that. I think your first two points are understating the history in Palestine/Israel, though. There was intentional displacement of the indigenous population from the start.
Thanks, that term, yeah I know that area has a long long history but these events are on the next order of magnitude in recent history there.
It just kind of shocked me, from all the apologizing and reparations we pay for our past mistakes, I had the naïve idea that most developed Western countries got over doing and supporting this kind of behaviour. Clearly not.
In case you - or anyone reading this - are unaware, the term covering the patterns you’re describing is ‘settler colonialism’. It differs from ‘exploitation colonialism’ in that it aims to not only profit from a territory, but to replace the population that is there with another population. What you describe are the logical consequences of that. I think your first two points are understating the history in Palestine/Israel, though. There was intentional displacement of the indigenous population from the start.
Thanks, that term, yeah I know that area has a long long history but these events are on the next order of magnitude in recent history there.
It just kind of shocked me, from all the apologizing and reparations we pay for our past mistakes, I had the naïve idea that most developed Western countries got over doing and supporting this kind of behaviour. Clearly not.