Despite the popular naming of the conflict as incredibly complex, Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh explains the model is simply settler colonialism, the same motivation and mechanisms experienced by the Indigenous people of Australia.
“While working in the Holy Land, I distinctly remember reading a six-word sentence written by a historian. The words are these: There are no exits from history. I believe these words are pertinent to us here in Australia, where our history is haunted by the historical killings carried out against its Indigenous people. A history of which so many Australians are ignorant, or we continue to avert our gaze from its reality.”
