Do you actually read this thread?
I do not agree with
mojo pixy on a lot but when Mojo says Israel behaves more like its mentor Britain I totally agree with Mojo
And its an issue I've posted up about more than once on this thread based on the reading I've done since this all kicked off in Gaza. Plus the reading I did before. As I set myself the task of reading more on British Empire in light of BLM.
I've posted more than once that Zionists who run Israel have not only learnt from British but some of the law and methods have been directly transferred from the Mandate period.
Imperial policing / counterinsurgency
The British so called Emergency regulations.
Things like Collective punishment of communities / house demolitions are straight out of British manuals of how to put down revolts.
On a slight tangent Imperial eccentrics like Orde Wingate. Thrown up during the late Imperial period provided unorthodox training to Zionist paramilitaries. Which to this day Israel state recognises.
Plus there is the issue of the Balfour declaration.
The historical argument is about whether Zionism was supported in Imperial period as a "little Ulster" ( that is how Zionist lobbyist presented it) so British Empire could have a European outpost in a sea of Orientalism to defend its strategic links with India.
Myself I think , on basis of British Empire , this was a strategic mistake. British should never have agreed the Balfour declaration. It stored up trouble for Empire and was founding block or what is happening now.
I think what you mean is that a settler colonial regime is different from a purely colonial one.
Which it is.
Also that settler colonialism is more violent to indigenous people than straightforward colonialism.
This is definitely what Matthew Hughes says in his history of the putting down of the Palestinian revolt in the 1930s.
Its why , except for off the wall eccentric like Orde Wingate, British tried to make sure Zionist volunteers were kept in background. And the imperial policing was done by regular British troops.
Matthew Hughes says Imperial Britain had learnt from its mistake and that how it ran and policed Empire changed over time.
This was not the case for those on whose homes were at stake.
The worst oppression was not , according to Matthew Hughes , in suppressing indigenous by imperial policing. But by those who are settlers.
In Kenya he says this in Mau Mau rebellion.
The British in Mandate period simply wanted some elite group of Palestinians to support them. The double bind the British Empire put itself in was the imo big mistake of the Balfour declaration.
The normal process of British Empire to get local elites to support Empire in exchange for keeping there privileges fell apart when Britain stupidly offered the land to Zionist settlers.
And then found at different times it had to show support for Arab population. As in run up to WW2.
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