![Israel has become an apartheid state, writes Ilan Pappe [Showkat Shafi/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/48ace09aa372408f88f2fa034ff424d1_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Seventy years after the creation of the Israeli state, we can no longer talk about an Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
![British politician Lord Arthur Balfour points out a feature of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to Governor Sir Ronald Storrs during a visit to Jerusalem, April 1925 [Getty]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/16b5fbecbb16415181aeb531049c4897_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The Balfour Declaration 99 years ago marked the beginning of a settler colonial project of tragic proportions.
![What we see ... in Palestine is the existential struggle of the native people of a country still under threat of destruction, writes Pappe [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/b7ba404a9abe45a28deb52119e20842d_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The present “Intifada” is an outcome of the occupation and the expanded Jewish colonisation.