It is difficult to predict what will happen in Israel, but history may give us a clue.


Ilan Pappe is the Director of European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He has published 15 books on the Middle East and on th... e Palestine Question.
It is difficult to predict what will happen in Israel, but history may give us a clue.

The dehistoricisation of what is happening helps Israel pursue genocidal policies in Gaza.

Seventy years after the creation of the Israeli state, we can no longer talk about an Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The Balfour Declaration 99 years ago marked the beginning of a settler colonial project of tragic proportions.

The present “Intifada” is an outcome of the occupation and the expanded Jewish colonisation.
