Ytzhak Sternberg, 46. The Colonialism/Colonization Perspective on Zionism/Israel, in Handbook of Israel: Major Debates, 2016.
«Two major approaches are discernible in the colonialism debate on Zionism, the Yishuv and Israel: a deterministic approach and a non-deterministic approach. The former argues that Zionism is a colonialist movement, and Israel a colonial state. [...] Supporters of the non-deterministic approach see in 1967 (and the settlement project in the West Bank which the state is increasingly supporting) a major turn-ing-point in Israel’s history. Those observers contend that Zionism is not a colonial-ist movement and that until 1967, the Yishuv and the State of Israel were not colonial.»
