Turbulent stasis: comparative reflections upon intercommunal violence and territoriality in the Israel/Palestine conflict

From at least the Balfour Declaration of 1917 right down to the present day, the Zionist-Palestinian conflict has been sculpted by external forces. But never entirely so: grassroots patterns of confrontation have also been vital. This article therefore adopts a 'bottom-up' approach to the evolution of the conflict since the early twentieth century.