Israel-Palestine: Post-Colonialism

Since the abandonment of Great Britain's occupation of the region and after the UN's resolution was put in place to split Palestine and Israel apart which left Israel with a larger sum of land. Post-colonialism has taken a very huge toll on both of these regions, sparking what we've now seen as almost a hundred year war. Author Murat Sofuolgu in The making of a colonial state, references Richard Falk who has explained the topic on how a country which was created by colonialism is now making efforts in being the colonizer themselves. Stating the roots of the situation as "the promise was a homeland to the Jews, not a state. Balfour, himself, in his private papers, indicated that he never anticipated the emergence of a Jewish state in Palestine. But then came a very concerted effort by the Zionist movement to purchase land in Palestine to encourage the Jews around the world to emigrate to Palestine."

To summarize the the effects of post-colonialism in Israel-Palestine, We must remember the starting step to this current situation. In the past, Palestine was seen as a sanctuary for the Jewish people fleeing Nazi Europe that had rose to power. The upwards trend of Jewish migration caused a massive flood of Jewish people, too much for the Arab nation to handle. Richard Falk states "Even [if] it was not intended, it was the effect of establishing Israel over the will of the resident population and in a manner that all the Arabs neighbors of Palestine opposed. That was definitely the last gasp or twilight of colonial authority imposed on the Muslim world in a way that has fueled the conflict ever since, for the last seventy years. It has caused great suffering to the Palestine people who were just there [and] had the bad fortune being in this land that has become the object of the Zionist ambition. "

Bibliography:

Sofuolgu, Murat. Israel: The Making of a Colonial State in a Postcolonial World, TRT World, 25 Dec. 2017, www.trtworld.com/magazine/israel-the-making-of-a-colonial-state-in-a-postcolonial-world-13599.