As in North America, the colonization
of Palestine—like that of South Africa, Australia, Algeria, and parts of East
Africa—was meant to yield a white European settler colony. Many cannot
accept the contradiction inherent in the idea that although Zionism
undoubtedly succeeded in creating a thriving national entity in Israel, its
roots are as a colonial settler project (as are those of other modern
countries: the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Nor can
they accept that it would not have succeeded but for the support of the great
imperial powers, Britain, and later the United States. Zionism, therefore,
could be and was both a national and a colonial settler movement at one and
the same time.

An excerpt from Rashid Khalidi’s work ‘The hundred years’ war on Palestine’