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Establishment of European and American Consulates in Jerusalem

Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)

Appointment of the King-Crane Commission

20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919

Formation of the Arab National League (ANL) in New York

August 1937 - May 1941

Support in the United States for a Jewish Army

Establishment of the Institute of Arab American Affairs (IAAA) in New York

25 November 1944 - 31 January 1950

Pledge to Buy US Armament for the Haganah

Truman and Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

Bevin's Statement on Palestine; Formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

13 November 1945

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Publishes its Report after a Visit to Palestine

6 March 1946 - 20 April 1946

President Truman Supports Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Anglo-American Conference Meets in London and Proposes the Morrison-Grady Federal Plan

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Arab Sacrifice Brigade Formed and Dissolved

1 March 1949 - 30 November 1950

Elections at al-Urwa al-Wuthqa Society

Israel and the Lavon Affair

July 1954 - 17 February 1955

Arab Information Center (AIC) Is Opened in New York

Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq

Palestine Arab Delegation (PAD) Office Is Opened in New York

26 June 1961 - 26 June 2001

June War, 4th Day

PFLP Hijack Operations

6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970

Black September Operation in Khartoum

1 March 1973 - 4 March 1973

Basil al-Kubaisi Assassinated in Paris

American Airlift

14 October 1973 - 14 November 1973

Israeli Army Crosses the Suez Canal Westwards

15 October 1973 - 22 October 1973

American-Soviet Agreement on a Cease-fire

21 October 1973

A Palestine Information Office (PIO) Is Opened in Washington

Operations Against French and US Contingents in Beirut

23 October 1983

The US Orders the Closure of the Palestine Information Office (PIO) in Washington

15 September 1987 - 5 August 1988

31st Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

6 December 1987 - 10 December 1987

US-PLO Official Meeting Takes Place in Carthage, Tunisia

US Position on Further Redeployment and Palestinian Obligations

5 December 1997 - 3 September 1998

Failure to Reach the FAPS by 13 May 2000 Target Date: Eilat Round

30 April 2000 - 8 May 2000

Israeli-Palestinian (Post-Stockholm) Back Channel

1 June 2000 - 3 June 2000

The PA Releases First Batch of New Textbooks

2 September 2000

Arab and International Support of Palestinian Uprising

30 September 2000 - 7 October 2000

The Mitchell Committee of Fact-Finding on the Palestinian-Israeli Confrontation

7 November 2000 - 30 December 2000

Israeli Leaders Push for an American War Against Iraq

16 October 2002 - 9 February 2003

War on Gaza, Day 7

War on Gaza, Day 20

15 January 2009

The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Israeli Side: The Settlements Issue

18 May 2009 - 1 June 2009

The Palestinian State: Recognition and Upgrade Drive, Mostly in Latin and Central America and Europe

1 December 2010 - 19 January 2012

Al Jazeera Satellite TV and the Guardian Release the Palestine Papers

23 January 2011

37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem

20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015

Abbas Launches Diplomatic Activity at the UN to Get a Security Council Resolution on Israeli Settlements

22 September 2016 - 22 December 2016

Donald Trump Is Elected the 45th American President

8 November 2016

Donald Trump Is Officially Inaugurated as the 45th American President

20 January 2017

Israel Prevents US Congresswomen from Visiting the West Bank and Israel

15 August 2019 - 16 August 2019

Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

1865 - 3 March 1948

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Raghib al-Nashashibi

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1893 - 27 April 1940

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

1902 - 27 August 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

1917 - 12 December 2003

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

1923 - 12 May 2004

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1942 - 6 August 2019

Historical Texts

Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Palin Commission Report

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

Biltmore Conference Declaration

Pact of the League of Arab States

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Egypt And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

12 September 1950

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 1950

9 December 1969

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

PLO Central Council, Statement on Sadat's Visit to Israel

30 November 1977

Joint Letter from President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin to President Carter Concerning Negotiations on Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Statement of First National Festival of Palestinian Literature in the Occupied Land

Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut

1 September 1982

Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal

2 September 1982

Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly

13 December 1988

Statement by President Reagan on Opening American-PLO Dialogue

14 December 1988

Egypt's Ten-Point Response to Israel's Election Plan in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

President George Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress on the Middle East

Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East

Israel and the Road Map

23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/13

27 October 2003

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Joint Understanding Between Israel and the PLO Read by President Bush

27 November 2007

President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

Palestinian Prime Minister's Letter to Secretary of State on No Longer Accepting US Assistance

26 December 2018

Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

12 February 2020

Historical Media

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Highlights

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

The Palestine Communist Party

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

III. Late Mandate

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Lebanon War, 1982

A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Balata Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks

The Bosnians of Palestine

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station