The Palestinians Are the Colonizers

The historical case for Israel’s legitimacy — and the DARVO that turned Islamist conquerors into "victims".

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by Rod D. Martin
August 30, 2025

Labeling Israel a “settler colony” is an Orwellian reversal. It’s the sort of DARVO — “Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender” — employed by abusers. It casts the indigenous people of the land as foreigners, and the actual colonizers as its rightful heirs.

The Palestinians are the colonizers, not the Jews.

Now this is not an argument that Palestinians should be mistreated. But here’s the thing: in Israel, they aren’t. They’re full citizens, with more civil rights than anywhere in the Arab world. They serve in parliament (the Knesset). They serve as IDF generals. They are citizens, not subjects.

Not so in the Arab world. Virtually the entire Middle East surrounding this Israeli island of freedom is mired in dictatorship. The strong rule the weak, a wicked concoction of Socialism and Sharia prevails, and “rights” are a sick joke. And nowhere is this worse (Afghanistan aside) than in G…