1917 Balfour Declaration.4 In 1947, this myopic approach culminated in the Partition Plan for Palestine. Neglecting the colonial nature of the Zionist movement and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution 181 (II) deemed that creating two states in Mandatory Palestine, one for the Jewish population and one for the Palestinian Arab population, was the most appropriate solution for what were framed as equally valid contentions over the territory.5 Subsequently, conflict resolution has continued to shape the international response to the situation in Palestine – a response that was officially cemented in the 1993 Oslo peace process.6 The national conflict/conflict resolution paradigm, which rests on multiple erroneous assumptions, has grievously distorted the reality on the ground by obscuring the root causes and pillars of Israeli domination. This is evident when considering that the international community recognizes Israel’s legitimacy in 1948 Palestine without regard for its violent colonial origins that have resulted in the forcible transfer and displacement of more than 65 percent of the Palestinian people. Over the past few years, this paradigm has started to give way to more accurate and critical modes of analysis. More than two decades of labor in the form of reports, organizing, and advocacy by Palestinian civil society,7 have laid the foundation for what we now see as a 2 4 The text of the Balfour Declaration can be found at: Lillian Goldman Law Library, ‘Balfour Declaration 1917’ (Yale Law School, 21 February 2012) <https://avalon.law.yale. edu/20th_century/balfour.asp#:~:text=%22His%20Majesty's%20Government%20view%20 with,religious%20rights%20of%20existing%20non%2D> accessed 5 April 2023. 5 181 (II). Future government of Palestine (29 November 1947) UNGA Res A/RES/181(II) [hereinafter UN Partition Plan < https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/ GEN/NR0/038/88/PDF/NR003888.pdf ?OpenElement> accessed 5 April 2023. 6 BADIL, ‘Palestinian Youth Perspectives on the Oslo Peace Process: Successes, Failures and Alternatives’ (2021) Working Paper No. 27 <https://www.badil.org/cached_uploads/ view/2021/09/15/wp27-pal-youth-vs-oslo-eng-1631700884.pdf>. 7 See BADIL, ‘Racism, Refugees, and Apartheid’ (2002) 15, al-Majdal <https://www.badil.org/ cached_uploads/view/2021/05/06/al-majdal-15-1620308690.pdf>.