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FROM 1917’s Balfour Declaration — which did not actually mention the Palestinians — right up to last year’s much trumpeted “deal of the century,” the modern history of Palestine is best understood as a prolonged vicious colonial war against its indigenous population.
Throughout over a century of conflict, and facing the colossus that has become the Israeli state, a colonised people has been violently denied equal rights and self-determination, while being repeatedly told to accept “agreements” that were designed to negate their own existence.
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