IMPERIALISM AND SETTLER-COLONIALISM IN WEST ASIA: ISRAEL AND THE ARAB PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE.

Abstract

The present conflict between Israel and the Arab peoples (especially the
Palestinian people) pre-dates the creation of the state of Israel and arose
with the beginning of Zionist colonialisation of Palestine.
It was the representatives of British capital who, in the middle of the
nineteenth century, first put forward the idea of creating a colonial settler
state in Palestine (situated at the corner of the two continents of Asia and
Africa) to guard the trade routes of British colonialism to the East, especially
with India.