It is difficult to predict what will happen in Israel, but history may give us a clue.
A year has passed since October 7, 2023, and it is time to explore if we have a better understanding of this monumental event and everything that followed it.
For historians like me, a year is usually not enough to draw any significant conclusions. However, what happened in the past 12 months falls within a much wider historical context, one that stretches back at least to 1948, and I would argue, even to the early Zionist settlement in Palestine in the late 19th century.
Therefore, what we can do as historians is place the past year within the long-term processes that have unfolded in historical Palestine since 1882. I will explore two of the most important ones.
Colonisation and decolonisation
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