What I don't get in all this babble about "colonialist settler" accusations against Israel is that if anyone in this situation is a "colonialist settler" it is the Palestinians. Doesn't anyone of these so-called intellectuals know that the area now called Palestine was once Israel, that the Romans eliminated the Jews from Judea in 135 CE…
What I don't get in all this babble about "colonialist settler" accusations against Israel is that if anyone in this situation is a "colonialist settler" it is the Palestinians. Doesn't anyone of these so-called intellectuals know that the area now called Palestine was once Israel, that the Romans eliminated the Jews from Judea in 135 CE, that in their place non-Jews, some Roman Colonies, some Gentiles from other regions settled in this region, that with the coming of the Arab Conquest of 634, Arabs were given the land by their commanders, and finally the Jewish presence in the Galilee which had been vibrant became to wane with the coming of the Arabs? So who is the colonialist settler really? Who really deserves "restorative justice"?
What I don't get in all this babble about "colonialist settler" accusations against Israel is that if anyone in this situation is a "colonialist settler" it is the Palestinians. Doesn't anyone of these so-called intellectuals know that the area now called Palestine was once Israel, that the Romans eliminated the Jews from Judea in 135 CE, that in their place non-Jews, some Roman Colonies, some Gentiles from other regions settled in this region, that with the coming of the Arab Conquest of 634, Arabs were given the land by their commanders, and finally the Jewish presence in the Galilee which had been vibrant became to wane with the coming of the Arabs? So who is the colonialist settler really? Who really deserves "restorative justice"?