by Muhammed Khalil Al-Mousa * The idea of colonialism has historically been based on the practice of imposing political, economic, social, cultural and legal domination by a foreign state, often a Western state, over a foreign territory and its inhabitants. Colonialism, which extended from the sixteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century, was a practice not prohibited under traditional international law, but it became prohibited since the middle of the twentieth century, when the United Nations decolonized the world. Colonial practices and policies were built on plundering the wealth of the colonial peoples, accumulating wealth and capital at their expense, impoverishing, marginalizing, enslaving and trading them, destroying their industries and agricultural and commercial activities, as well as the oppression, oppression and brutality practiced by the colonial powers in the lands under their control. Those colonial policies and practices led to structural imbalances between colonial and colonial states, manifested in historical injustice and inequality.