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Hafiz al-Sa’id

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1865 - 3 March 1948

Freih Abu Middein

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1882 - 22 April 1942

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

1905 - 21 May 1985

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1925 - 10 April 1973

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1942 - 6 August 2019

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

Events

Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Territorial Issues and Prelude to the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

Balfour Declaration Is Made

2 November 1917

Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front

21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918

The Fourteen Points of US President Woodrow Wilson

British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan

21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant

23 October 1918

1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919

The General Syrian National Congress Proclaims the Independence of the Arab Syrian Kingdom

7 March 1920 - 8 March 1920

Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes

2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920

Palin Commission of Inquiry

12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920

San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

French Occupy Damascus; Arab Syrian Kingdom Nominally Reduced to Transjordan

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

4th Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

29 May 1921 - 4 June 1921

The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London

2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922

12th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

1 September 1921 - 14 September 1921

White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration

House of Lords and House of Commons Conflicting Views on Palestine

20 June 1922 - 4 July 1922

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Orders the Return of its Delegation from London

7 July 1922 - 31 July 1922

The League of Nations Confirms Britain’s Mandate over Palestine

League of Nations Approves Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

British-French Demarcation of Line Between Palestine (Including Transjordan) and Syria (Including Lebanon)

British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah

25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

Founding of the Arab National Party in Jerusalem

8 November 1923

Prevention of Crime (Tribal and Village Areas) Ordinance Goes into Effect

Anti-Balfour Demonstrations in Palestine

25 March 1925 - 1 April 1925

15th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

30 August 1927 - 11 September 1927

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

26 October 1929

Challenging the Pan-Islamic Congress, a Conference of the Palestinian Islamic Nation Is Convened

11 December 1931

An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress

13 December 1931

Establishment of the Istiqlal Party

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

Formation of a British-Arab Committee on Hussein-McMahon Correspondence at the London Round Table Conference

15 February 1939 - 16 March 1939

Outbreak of World War II

1 September 1939

Arab National Fund Reestablished

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN; Acknowledges Transjordan's Independence

Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan; a New Constitution for the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan

25 May 1946 - 7 December 1946

Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question

23 September 1947 - 25 November 1947

Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Basic Law for the Gaza Strip

25 February 1958 - 15 March 1958

Status of Jordanian Jerusalem Municipality Enhanced Symbolically

16 December 1959

1st Palestine National Council Is Held in Jerusalem: Establishment of the PLO

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

A PLF Operation in Nahariya

10th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Palestinians Hijack an Israeli Bus Toward Gaza

Start of the Intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

9 December 1987

The Intifada First Year Balance Sheet

9 December 1988

US-PLO Official Meeting Takes Place in Carthage, Tunisia

Israel Deports Four Palestinians from Gaza to South Lebanon

Palestinian Presidential and Legislative Elections

20 January 1996

Israel Launches Operation Grapes of Wrath Against Lebanon

11 April 1996 - 26 April 1996

Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement to Be Constructed

26 February 1997

Palestinian Response to Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement Project

27 February 1997 - 10 April 1997

Draft SC Res. S/1997/199 to Call on Israel to Refrain from Settlement Activities (Jabal Abu Ghunaym) Vetoed by US

Palestinian-Israeli Talks Deadlocked

10 March 1997 - 30 July 1997

Draft SC Res. S/1997/241 to Demand that Israel Cease Construction of Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement Vetoed by US

UNGA ES-10/2: Condemning Israel's Construction of Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement

Feverish Settlement Activities After Wye Memorandum

26 October 1998 - 15 November 1998

To Declare a Palestinian State at the End of the Transitional Period?

28 December 1998 - 25 April 1999

Orient House, Jerusalem and PLO Foreign Relations

1 March 1999 - 11 May 1999

Mounting Malaise in the Palestinian Territories

17 February 2000 - 18 May 2000

Start of the Second Intifada

29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000

Resumption of Peace Talks; the Clinton "Proposals"

19 December 2000 - 23 December 2000

Assassination of Mas'ud Ayyad in Jabaliya

13 February 2001

Assassination of Mahmud Madani in Balata Refugee Camp

19 February 2001

Draft SC Res. S/2001/270 Calling for Cessation of Settlement Activities and Protection of Palestinian Civilians Vetoed by US

Grave Escalation from Both Sides

9 January 2002 - 21 February 2002

An Uneven Race Between Diplomacy and Violence: Operation Colorful Journey

17 February 2002 - 26 March 2002

The Knesset Passes the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

Assassination of Mahmud Titi in Balata Refugee Camp

Israeli Army Refocuses on Gaza Strip

19 August 2002 - 7 October 2002

Military Confrontation Escalates Again in Gaza

15 February 2003 - 6 March 2003

US formally Presents Israel and the PA with the Road Map

Timing New Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Speech on Disengagement Plan

18 December 2003 - 31 January 2004

Assassination of Mahmud Judeh in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

28 February 2004

Assassination of Trad Jamal, Ibrahim Dayri, and Ammar Hassan near Deir al-Balah

Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Plan

15 April 2004 - 29 April 2004

Assassination of Khalil Marshud in Balata Refugee Camp

Operation Full Court Press in Nablus

23 June 2004 - 19 August 2004

Operation Active Shield in Gaza; Assassination of Militants in Gaza and West Bank

27 June 2004 - 5 August 2004

Draft SC Res. S/2004/783 Condemning Israeli Broad Incursion in Northern Gaza Strip Vetoed by US

Assassination of Imad Yahia Khalil Bader and Saqer Awni Saqer in Khan Yunis Refugee Camp

Israel Launches Operation Eastern Step

8 January 2005 - 17 January 2005

Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination

15 February 2005 - 30 April 2005

Ongoing Israeli Raids: Operation First Rain

23 September 2005 - 2 October 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Parties and Factions Sign a Code of Conduct

17 October 2005

Assassination of Shadi Suhail Muhanna and Muhammad Ahmad Kandeel in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

27 October 2005

Assassination of Hassan Madhun and Fawzi Abu Qara’ in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

1 November 2005

Assassination of Iyad Qadas and Iyad Najjar in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

8 December 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: At the Polls

25 January 2006

Israeli Operations Resume

3 February 2006 - 11 February 2006

Assassination of Hassan Asfour and Rami Hannoun East of Jabaliya Refugee Camp

6 February 2006

Assassination of Imad Asaliyya and Majdi Hammad in Jabaliya

Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains

28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006

New Israeli Pattern of Battering Gaza

11 July 2006 - 15 August 2006

Hizballah Fighters Capture Israeli Soldiers

2nd Israel War on Lebanon: the July War

12 July 2006 - 14 August 2006

July War: Israel Launches an Air War Against Hizballah

July War: Israel's Air War Fails to Knock out Hizballah

14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006

July War: Diplomacy Paralyzed by the US

14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006

July War: Israel's Special Operations Along the Border

17 July 2006 - 19 July 2006

Major Israeli Operation in Nablus

19 July 2006 - 21 July 2006

July War: Israel Attempts to Establish a Limited Foothold in Southern Lebanon

19 July 2006 - 29 July 2006

July War: Massacre in Qana; 48-Hour Partial Suspension of Air Strikes

30 July 2006 - 2 August 2006

July War: Israel Attempts to Create a Special Security Zone

2 August 2006 - 10 August 2006

July War: Diplomatic Efforts for a Cease-Fire

5 August 2006 - 9 August 2006

SC Res. 1701: Calling for a Cessation of Hostilities to End Israel's War on Lebanon

July War: Israel Attempts a Ground Offensive in Southern Lebanon

11 August 2006 - 14 August 2006

July War: The Cease-Fire

12 August 2006 - 14 August 2006

July War: A Balance Sheet

Israel's Operation Autumn Clouds Against Gaza

1 November 2006 - 12 November 2006

Gaza Escalation Followed by a Negotiated Cease-Fire

20 November 2006 - 26 November 2006

Hamas Seizes Control of Gaza

10 June 2007 - 16 June 2007

Assassination of Mubarak Hasanat in Deir al-Balah

23 October 2007

Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa

4 December 2007

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Bad Start

12 December 2007 - 27 December 2007

The Quartet Expresses "Concern" over Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa Expansion

17 December 2007

Assassination of Amer Qarmout in Beit Lahiya

4 February 2008

Assassination of Hizballah's Imad Mughniyah in Damascus

12 February 2008

Israel Launches Operation Hot Winter in Gaza

28 February 2008 - 3 March 2008

Assassination of Muhammad Shihada, Ahmad Balbul, Imad Kamel and Issa Marzouk in Bethlehem

Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen

18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008

Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire

4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008

War on Gaza, Day 1, Start of Phase 1

27 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 2

28 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 3

29 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 6

War on Gaza, Day 8: End of Phase 1; Balance Sheet

War on Gaza, Day 9: Start of Phase 2

War on Gaza, Day 11: Dramatic Surge in Palestinian Civilian Casualties

War on Gaza, Day 14

War on Gaza, Day 15: Intensification of Israeli Attacks

10 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 17

12 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 18

13 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 19: Hamas Cease-Fire Offer

14 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 20

15 January 2009

War on Gaza: Parallel Israeli and Hamas Cease-Fires; Balance Sheet

18 January 2009

Gaza Tenuous Cease-Fire

27 January 2009 - 12 February 2009

War on Gaza: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Related to UN Premises

Israel's Demolition and Eviction Orders Increase in East Jerusalem

2 August 2009 - 9 November 2009

Cross-Border Violence, Gaza

20 September 2009 - 3 October 2009

Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem

21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010

Escalation in Israel's Settlement Activity

26 September 2010 - 8 November 2010

Impact of the Democracy Drive in the Arab World on Palestinian Popular Politics

2 February 2011 - 15 March 2011

Israel Approves Settlement Expansion

2 March 2011 - 11 August 2011

Assassination of Muhammad al-Dayah, Abdullah Lubbad, and Isma‘il Lubbad in Deir al-Balah

Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest

27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011

Assassination of Abdullah al-Talbani in Jabaliya

27 December 2011

Israel’s Settlement Activity

6 June 2012 - 13 August 2012

Assassination of Ashraf Sabah and Hisham al-Saidani in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

13 October 2012

Assassination of Khaled al-Shaer in Deir al-Balah

16 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 5

18 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 6

19 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: A Balance Sheet

22 November 2012

With or Without Negotiations, Israel Continues its Settlement Activities

30 May 2013 - 11 August 2013

Settlement Balance Sheet with Breakdown of the Kerry Negotiation Round

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3

The 2014 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet

Arab Parties in Israel Form a Joint List For the Knesset Elections

22 January 2015

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

Israeli Elections: Likud's Victory and Strengthening of Arab Representation

17 March 2015 - 19 March 2015

Israel Kills Samir Quntar; Hizballah Responds

19 December 2015 - 4 January 2016

Three-Month Balance Sheet of the Palestinian Outburst

31 December 2015

Smaller-Scale Palestinian-Israeli Violence and Israeli Repression Continue

1 January 2016 - 30 June 2016

Provocative Israeli Decision Related to Haram al-Sharif

26 June 2016 - 5 July 2016

Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure

27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016

Palestinian Attacks Against Soldiers and Settlers

8 January 2017 - 26 September 2017

President Trump's Visit to Israel

22 May 2017 - 23 May 2017

100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration

1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017

Airstrikes and Rockets in Wake of Casualties during Great March of Return Protest

26 May 2018 - 20 August 2018

Talks for a Long-Term Gaza Cease-Fire

7 August 2018 - 10 November 2018

The US Replaces its Consulate General in Jerusalem by a Palestinian Affairs Unit within its New Embassy

18 October 2018

UNGA Res. 73/89: Reaffirming Support for the Two-State Solution of Israel and Palestine

6 December 2018

The Waqf Reopens Bab al-Rahma at the Haram al-Sharif Compound

14 February 2019 - 17 March 2019

Israeli Bombing Resumes Against Gaza

1 May 2019 - 5 May 2019

Israel Prevents Palestine Cup Final

3 July 2019 - 25 September 2019

Gaza-Israel Exchange of Fire after Assassination of Baha Abu al-Ata

12 November 2019 - 15 November 2019

Israeli Settlement Construction Continues Unbated in Third Year of Trump Administration

31 December 2019

Israel Attack Gaza over Incendiary Protest Balloons

6 August 2020 - 1 September 2020

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 1

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 2

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 7

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 8

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 10

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 11

May 2021 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet

Annual Settler March: Israeli Forces Violently Disperse Palestinian Protesters

Elections for Village Councils in the West Bank

11 December 2021

Historical Texts

Balfour Declaration

2 November 1917

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

San Remo Conference Resolutions: Syria, Mesopotamia [Iraq], Palestine Mandates

Palin Commission Report

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Biltmore Conference Declaration

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Basic Law of the PLO

Palestine National (watani) Charter

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

9 December 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Begin's Autonomy Plan

28 December 1977

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin

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, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

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

13 December 1988

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

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. Secretary James Baker

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/199

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/241

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/270

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/783

Palestinian Parties and Factions Code of Conduct during the Legislative Electoral Process

17 October 2005

Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

Fatah Sixth General Conference: Five Points of Clarification on Political Program

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)

25 September 2009

Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies

Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering

1 November 2017

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

28 February 2019

President Donald Trump: Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel

Historical Media

Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London

Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)

2 November 1932

Arab Higher Committee Members

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

London Conference

Places

Balad al-Shaykh

Highlights

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

III. Late Mandate

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Marka Refugee Camp

Balata Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

I. Ottoman Rule

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

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

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Lebanon War, 1982

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

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

The Israeli Military

The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

The Bosnians of Palestine

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

X. Oslo Process: Towards Failure

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era

XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Periods

XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Palestinian National Congresses

1918 - 1934

Thematic Chronology

Lebanon War, 2006

2006 - 2008