The Israeli occupation state bases its genocidal extermination of the Palestinian people on a colonial legacy extending over centuries. A study entitled “Civilized Barbarism...
What We Miss When We Ignore Colonial Violence,” tracked colonial violence. It showed that colonial wars were more brutal than other wars, such as civil wars and wars between states. Another consistent policy in colonial behavior is “cauterizing’ peoples’ awareness and consolidating their conviction of the heavy price of resisting occupation.