State Builders, Settlers, and Colonial Subjects

Abstract

In the following chapters, I provide a synoptic account of the history of Palestine and Israel in four periods:4 from the beginnings of Zionism in the mid-to-late 19th century to the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948; from the establishment of the state to its Occupation of the entire land of historic Palestine in 1967; from the Occupation to the first major challenge against it, a popular Palestinian uprising called the Intifada which began in 1987; and from the Intifada through the unending, fruitless and deceptive “peace process” to the present day.