>>> nathan at newman.org 07/12/01 03:11PM >>>
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From: "Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM at umkc.edu>
>the 'analogy' (or general category, really) for political zionism is not
>'third world' nationalism (of which modern Pan-Arab nationalism is one
>manifestation), but colonialism. third world nationalism was a reaction
>against colonialism, while pol. zionism was colonialism itself.
Ridiculous unless "colonialism" is stretched to mean every form of population transfer in history. Settlement is not colonialism. Most colonialism was never about mass settlement but about maximum economic exploitation with minimum settlement.
The reasonable analogy to Israel is the Afrikaners, who notably battled both indigenous peoples and the British as well. Or the analogy to the US itself in displacing native americans while again battling the British. Or hispanic Spanish settlers in the 19th century who were dispossessing indigenous people of their rights and property even as they gained independence from Europe. Africa was wracked with ethnic migrations where entering populations then dominated the former occupants, creating states oppressing minorities upon "decolonization."
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CB: Surely you are not saying that the examples you give were not colonialism .