Zionist settler colonialism...

Israel is a colonial structure that emerged from the coming together of settler communities. As I have expressed several times before, Israel is almost a one-to-one copy of the US, Australia, and New Zealand in terms of its founding period characteristics. Moreover, all of these structures, including Israel, are products of British colonialism. Canada is also a state founded by Anglo-Saxon settler colonists. A very significant portion of the powerful figures shaping our intellectual life believed that the British left behind a fan base for themselves in the regions they colonized. The phenomenon of settler colonialism was unknown. The founding stories of the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand were written for propaganda purposes in line with the expansionist policies of the Anglo-Saxons. But especially after World War II, the Algerian War of Independence resonated throughout the world, deeply affected the Islamic geography, and brought forth quite comprehensive criticisms of Western civilization. Western civilization was being very strongly criticized from within in the context of colonialism, but the Algerian War of Independence gave rise to a tradition of criticism shaped from outside. I do not want to list names one by one here, but the influence of intellectuals like Fanon, who managed to criticize Western civilization from the outside using the language of the inside, continues today with new dimensions. In the same framework, we can say that even American history is now being reopened for debate. Attention is now focused on the phenomenon of settler colonialism.

Israel is one of the failed projects in the history of settler colonialism. In this respect, Israel greatly resembles the French example of settler colonialism in Algeria. French settler colonialism in Algeria led to the formation of a serious tradition of criticism toward Western civilization after World War II. Until then, the West's civilizing mission was genuinely believed in. Even the concept of "müstamere" emerged under the influence of French colonialism. "Müstamere" is an important concept reflecting the colonialist mentality in terms of its suitability to the civilizing mission. Because it reflects the ideological perspective of the colonists. They believed they were civilizing the places they went to, seized, and opened for settlement. In our context, the concept of "müstemleke" was very common. In this concept, the meaning of making something property, rather than exploitation, comes to the fore. In both concepts, the meaning of seizing land is prominent. Zionist Jewish settlers never allowed Palestinian Arabs to work on the lands they cultivated. Because Palestinians were the native people of Palestine, rooted in the historical lands of Palestine. Jewish settlers, on the other hand, came from outside. They were not rooted in Palestine. For this reason, they pursued a policy of full-scale genocide against the Palestinian native population. Jewish settlers ethnically cleansed the Palestinian native population from all the regions they seized. They advanced by cleansing the land of its natives. This meant the exact replication of the settlement system that England had applied in North America. Anglo-Saxon settler colonialism, with the participation of European nations, achieved its genocidal goals in North America. With the unification of the 13 colonies to form the US, a much more brutal period began in North America. Anglo-Saxon settler colonialism reached its peak in the 19th century. They left no one behind to defend their own lands. Honestly, I could not fully explain the continuing hatred of American Anglo-Saxons toward the natives. I understand this better now. The greatest fear of settlers is the native people's strong attachment to their land. This attachment would allow them to sprout anew on their own land. What Israeli settlers cannot accept and what drives them nearly mad is the Palestinians' strong attachment to their land.

Until just a few years ago, even after October 7, 2023, there was very strong Zionist propaganda in Türkiye that Palestinians were selling their land. Although Palestinians had effectively begun fighting against British colonialism in the 1920s, the British took care to create a perception that Palestinians were selling their land. Because it had been understood from the very beginning that they would have difficulty breaking Palestinian resistance. Today, the fact that Jewish Zionist settlers are committing genocide, even at the cost of turning the entire world against them, must also be evaluated within the framework of the Palestinians' attachment to their land.