India and everywhere else for. What is it that the british are attempting to do to kind of you know with the Zionist Movement was radical right well the the basic goal the strategic. Israeli Palestinian Conflict is not the product of ancient ethnic hatreds nor is it the tragic clash between 2 peoples with claims to the same land it is rather a manufactured conflict the outcome of a 100 year old colonial occupation by jewish zionists and israel backed by major imperial powers starting with the british and a century later with the United States this project from its inception has always been about the forest and often violent displacement of palestinians from their land the seizure of that land by the colonisers and the rendering of the palestinians as non people as if they never existed. This century long the so 1st by the zionists and later by israel has always been waged against an addiction is people to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will yet
Against those who speak this truth joining me in the studio to discuss this colonial project is rashid holiday the edward cited professor of modern arab studies at Columbia University and the author of the 100 years war on palestine the history of settler colonization and resistance 1917 to 2017 so you pull from the historical record from documents and make i think absolutely compelling case that from the moment of zionist settlement in palestine they knew exactly what they were doing they knew what the end gold was which theyve largely achieved. And that was surprising for me as you know from what you dug up in their store of whole record how frank you know how clear sighted they were from the beginning haim weissman and others and so talk about that well they were clear sighted and they were fraying but they were more frank in private than they well public because in public they were quite disingenuous really right i mean the british restricted them to a formulation called a National
Their will yet to state this incontrovertibly fact of jewish colonization supported by a numerable documents official statements exhaustive reports at Historical Records and events sees israels defenders leveled charges of Eddie Semitism and racism against those who speak this truth joining me in the studio to discuss this colonial project is rashid holiday the edward cited professor of modern arab studies at Columbia University and the author of the 100 years war on palestine the history of settler colonization and resistance 1917 to 2017 so you pull from the historical record from documents and make i think absolutely compelling case that from the moment of scientist settlement in palestine. They knew exactly what they were doing they knew what the end gold was which theyve largely achieved and that was surprising for me as you know from what you dug up in their store of whole record how frank you know how clear sighted they were from the beginning haim weissman and others and so tal
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