Western colonialism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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43. Setting colonialism aside, this about causes of the current conflict from JSTOR

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That means it's a quote off internet, which undoubtedlky means some people will doubt it. But universal acceptance is less the issue than the reality that one side in the conflict believes it.

It's not so much colonization as it is what appears to be siezure of land (which is why they are called 'occupied'.

By: Eric Schewe May 19, 2021

... the most important long-term factor has been the continuing Israeli efforts to displace Palestinian residents of the occupied Palestine territories and to settle Israeli citizens in their place. Israel occupied the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank in the 1967 war, which had been formerly under the administration of Egypt and Jordan, respectively. Israel has permitted hundreds of thousands of settlers to make land claims based on pre-1948 ownership in these territories, and to establish entirely new communities on land claimed by the state in the intervening decade. The UN has formally denounced this policy as a violation of international law.