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Israel & US : Neo-Colonialism in Palestine

 The history of Israeli colonialism is some 70+ years old. Ever since the conception of Zionism. Zion is the name of the City built by David on the hills of Jerusalem. Ever since Theodor Herzl’s Modern Zionism emerged in the late 19th century in Central and Eastern Europe as a national revival movement, both in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and as a response to Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. Soon after this, most leaders of the movement associated the main goal with creating the desired state in Palestine, then an area controlled by the Ottoman Empire. A religious variety of Zionism supports Jews upholding their Jewish identity defined as adherence to religious Judaism, opposes the assimilation of Jews into other societies, and has advocated the return of Jews to Israel as a means for Jews to be a majority nation in their state. What went wrong? In 1995, The PLO and Israel sign an interim agreement granting the Palestinians some autonomy in certain parts of the west b...