The Colonization of Palestine: Rethinking the Term “Israeli Occupation”
NOVANEWS
RAMZY BAROUD
Ultra-orthodox Jews watch Palestinian demonstrators during protests in the West Bank village of Bi’lin in front of the Israeli settlement of Modi’in Illit, Feb. 27, 2015. (THOMAS COEX/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2018, pp. 46-47
From the Diaspora
By Ramzy Baroud
JUNE 5, 2018 marked the 51st anniversary of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.
But, unlike the massive popular mobilization that preceded the anniversary of the Nakba (the catastrophic destruction of Palestine in 1948) on May 15, the anniversary of the occupation hardly generated equal mobilization.
The unsurprising death of the “peace process” and the inevitable demise of the “two-state solution” has shifted the focus fr...