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Biographies

Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Abd al-Latif Salah
1884 - 8 November 1952
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Asma Tubi
1905 - 1983
Biography
Kamal Nasser
1925 - 10 April 1973
Biography
Samira Azzam
13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967
Biography
Bashir Barghouti
1931 - 9 September 2000
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Samih al-Qasim
1939 - 19 August 2014

Events

Event
Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt
1882
Event
French Occupy Damascus; Arab Syrian Kingdom Nominally Reduced to Transjordan
14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920
Event
Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan
6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947
Event
Haganah Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem
8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948
Event
Israeli Operation in Gaza
28 August 1953
Event
Israeli Operation Against Qibya
14 October 1953
Event
Sharon's Pacification of Gaza
August 1970 - December 1971
Event
Sharon Goes to Washington to Get Green Light on Lebanon War
25 May 1982
Event
Feverish Settlement Activities After Wye Memorandum
26 October 1998 - 15 November 1998
Event
Ariel Sharon at al-Haram al-Sharif
28 September 2000
Event
Start of the Second Intifada
29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000
Event
Ariel Sharon Is Elected Prime Minister of Israel; Intifada Casualties Under Ehud Barak
6 February 2001
Event
Israel and the US Put Effective End to Peace Talks
7 February 2001 - 8 February 2001
Event
Intense then Moderate Resurgence of Palestinian-Israeli Clashes
8 February 2001 - 7 March 2001
Event
Operation Bronze and Escalation
7 March 2001 - 16 May 2001
Event
The Tenet Cease-Fire Plan
11 June 2001 - 20 June 2001
Event
US and Palestinian Efforts to Stop Israeli Escalation
12 September 2001 - 16 October 2001
Event
President Bush Publicly Endorses the Creation of a Palestinian State
2 October 2001 - 15 October 2001
Event
Another Timid Return to Diplomacy: a Peres-Qurai' Draft?
16 December 2001 - 27 December 2001
Event
An Uneven Race Between Diplomacy and Violence: Operation Colorful Journey
17 February 2002 - 26 March 2002
Event
US Response to the Israeli Invasion
4 April 2002 - 17 April 2002
Event
Israeli and International Pressures for a PA Reform
7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002
Event
Israeli Leaders Push for an American War Against Iraq
16 October 2002 - 9 February 2003
Event
The Likud Wins the Elections for the Knesset
28 January 2003
Event
With US Blessing, Ambivalent Israeli Acceptance of the "Steps Set out in the Road Map"
4 May 2003 - 25 May 2003
Event
Abbas and Sharon Meet in Jerusalem
17 May 2003 - 29 May 2003
Event
Aqaba Summit: Bush, Abdullah, Abbas, and Sharon Meet
4 June 2003
Event
Yasir Arafat in the Line of Fire
4 September 2003 - 30 September 2003
Event
The Geneva "Private" Initiative
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
Event
Sharon's Speech on Unilateral Disengagement Plan
18 December 2003
Event
Timing New Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Speech on Disengagement Plan
18 December 2003 - 31 January 2004
Event
Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan
12 January 2004 - 2 February 2004
Event
Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan
2 February 2004 - 13 March 2004
Event
Israel Launches Operation Continuous Story Against Palestinian Leaders
14 March 2004 - 5 April 2004
Event
Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan
14 April 2004
Event
Bush's Letter to Sharon on the Disengagement Plan
14 April 2004
Event
Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Plan
15 April 2004 - 29 April 2004
Event
Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan
15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004
Event
An Egyptian Security Plan for the PA
24 May 2004 - 6 July 2004
Event
Israeli Cabinet Ambiguously Endorses Sharon's Disengagement Plan
6 June 2004
Event
Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map
2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004
Event
Abbas-Sharon Summit in Sharm al-Shaykh
8 February 2005
Event
Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination
15 February 2005 - 30 April 2005
Event
Palestinian Dialogue Conference Held in Cairo
15 March 2005 - 17 March 2005
Event
Major Construction Plan in Ma'ale Adumim
21 March 2005 - 6 April 2005
Event
After a Massive Stroke, Sharon Is Replaced by Ehud Olmert as Acting PM
4 January 2006
Event
Olmert's Separation Plan
5 March 2006 - 9 March 2006
Event
Olmert's Convergence Plan Put Aside; Settlement Activity Resumes
18 August 2006 - 21 September 2006
Event
Palestinian and Israeli Teams to Prepare Annapolis International Conference
20 September 2007 - 25 November 2007

Historical Texts

Document
1st Palestinian National Congress: Report to Paris Peace Conference (in Arabic)
February 1919
Document
Arab Executive Committee's Response to High Commissioner's Offer to Form an Arab Agency Similar to the Jewish Agency in Palestine (in Arabic)
12 October 1923
Document
Communiqué: Formation of the Arab Independence Party; the Party Bylaws (in Arabic)
2 August 1932
Document
Resolutions of the Jericho Conference on Palestinian-Jordanian Unity (in Arabic)
1 December 1948
Document
Speech of Ahmad al-Shuqairi, Head of the Palestine Delegation, before the UN Special Political Committee (in Arabic)
5 November 1963
Document
President Bourguiba's Speech on the Palestine Question (in Arabic)
3 March 1965
Document
Palestine National Council, 3rd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)
20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966
Document
Emergency Arab Summit, 1970: Statement (in Arabic)
21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970
Document
Sixth Arab Summit: Statement (in Arabic)
28 November 1973
Document
Statement of the General Congress to Defend Arab Lands in Israel (in Arabic)
18 October 1975
Document
Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1990: Statement (in Arabic)
28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990
Document
Palestine National Council, 21st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)
22 April 1996 - 25 April 1996
Document
Thirteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)
27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001
Document
Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative
28 March 2002
Document
Statement of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (in Arabic)
21 June 2007
Document
The Palestine Announcement in Lebanon (in Arabic)
7 January 2008
Document
Fatah Sixth General Conference: Political Program (in Arabic)
7 August 2009
Document
Egypt's View on Ending Palestinian Division (in Arabic)
9 September 2009
Document
Provision on Palestinian Workers in Amended Lebanese Social Security Law (in Arabic)
24 August 2010
Document
Twenty-Fifth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)
25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014
Document
Fatah's 7th General Conference: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)
29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016
Document
Statement of the Preparatory Committee for the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)
11 January 2017
Document
Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (in Arabic)
13 December 2017
Document
PLO Central Council, 29th Session: Resolutions (in Arabic)
15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018
Document
PLO Central Council, 30th Session: Communiqué (in Arabic)
28 October 2018 - 29 October 2018
Document
Ismail Haniyeh: Hamas's Vision for Advancing the Palestinian Cause (in Arabic)
3 November 2021

Highlights

Highlight
VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival
1982-1987
Highlight
Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
Highlight
Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens