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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver

and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. All is not well in the settler colony,

which, of course, it never was. In Israel, the internal contradictions of the Zionist project

have been building up since the 1948 Nakba and before. On one level, Zionism is a cohesive settler

colonial project that shores up Israel as an ethnocracy ruling over Palestinians as a second class

citizens within the green line while managing Palestinians through a partied system in the West

Bank and with blockades and brutal military campaigns in Gaza. But the Zionist project is at war

not only against Palestinians, but also with itself. Polarized along class and ethnic lines

and pitting the religious, against secular, all coming to a head over the leadership of Benjamin

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