If the Israeli Palestinian issue is not a conflict what is it then ?
Israel is waging a settler-colonial war to displace the indigenous Palestinian people with Jewish settlers by force and violence. Like all peoples faced with settler colonialism, Palestinians have resisted their displacement by any and all means at their disposal.
Israeli claims of ancient religious attachment to the land do not change the fact that Zionism - the movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine - adopted colonial ideas and methods in realizing its aim. Like other colonizers, Israel has justified its settler-colonial war on Palestinians by depicting itself as upholding liberal democracy and depicting Palestinian resistance as primitive and barbaric.