The Arab-Israeli conflict: The contributions of Roberto Marín Guzmán to the understanding of historical colonialism and subaltern resistances 1919-2025

Abstract

The Israeli Arab conflict has been unfolding for more than seventy and five years with levels of extreme violence rarely seen in contemporary history. In disputes over the control of land and economic resources, the ethnic, religious and political-ideological problem arises to better understand what is happening in this small fringe of land in the Middle East. With a clearly colonialist objective, the Zionist movement has undertaken the task since 1948 of gradually appropriating all the territory originally corresponding to the Palestinian Arabs, exploiting for them the cause of the Jewish pueblo massacred by the Nazi fascists during the Second World War and thereby aproving the excuse for the obligatory need for a territory for a town without a home. In this regard, the investigations of Roberto Marín Guzmán, pioneer of these studies in Costa Rica are key. This work examines, from a Marxist - critical approach, the historical causes of the conflict, the development of the most relevant events and the current situation of the escalation of violence that led to a genocide in the middle of 2024-2026.