rom the very beginning، land has constituted the core of the conflict in Palestine and its conquest was an essential condition for the realization of the colonial-settler Zionist enterprise. Any and all Palestinians located within this territory were considered to be an obstacle to the achievement of central goal of Zionism - the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Consistent with this point of view، Palestinians are considered to be an obstacle by virtue of their mere presence in their homeland. As Deborah Bird Rose1 writes: 'To get in the way of settler colonization، all the native has to do is stay at home'.