Trump's UN-backed 'peace plan': A new front in the American colonisation of Palestine

American missionaries were dispatched to Palestine as early as 1821 but remained only until 1844, when competition from British Protestant missions rendered their presence redundant and led them to relocate to Syria and Lebanon. The Palestinians opposed the colonists, prompting the Ottomans to protest to the US minister that 'the natives' were being driven 'from their fields by a colony of Yankees' (Read more at Middle East Eye).