interactive encyclopedia of the palestine question – palquest | search

Sections

About

Use quotation marks “…” to search for an exact phrase.

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Growth

1860 - 1948

Biographies

1865 - 3 March 1948

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

1880 - 16 June 1946

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1894 - 19 March 1949

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

1929 - 2 June 2016

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1936 - 29 August 1987

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Palin Commission Report

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

Report “to Determine the Rights and Claims of Moslems and Jews in Connection with the Western or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem”

1 December 1930

Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931

The Murison Commission Report

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

Biltmore Conference Declaration

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 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

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

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

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

27 January 2001

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

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

National Conciliation Document

Mecca Agreement

8 February 2007

President George W. Bush’s Speech Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

10 January 2008

Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States Regarding Prevention of the Supply of Arms and Related Materiel to Terrorist Groups

16 January 2009

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

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

1 November 2017

Events

Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa

Zionist Biltmore Conference Is Held in New York

6 May 1942 - 11 May 1942

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

Series of Zionist Attacks

2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948

Second Phase of the Palestine War: Zionist Offensive

10 March 1948 - 15 May 1948

Settlement Attempt in Hebron

12 April 1968 - 16 June 1968

Hussein Bashir Abu al-Khayr Is Assassinated in Nicosia

24 January 1973

Palestinian Operations from South Lebanon

5 March 1975 - 20 November 1975

Arab States Take Position Against Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem

5 December 1977

9th Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad and Condemns the Camp David Accords

5 November 1978

11th Arab Summit Meets in Amman

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Majid Abu Sharar Is Assassinated in Rome

Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi and its Immediate Aftermath

17 October 2001 - 25 October 2001

15th Arab Summit Meets in Sharm al-Shaykh

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

8 March 2003 - 9 March 2003

16th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis; Rejection of Israel's Disengagement Plan

22 May 2004 - 23 May 2004

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in Acre

8 October 2008 - 13 October 2008

Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhuh in Dubai

20 January 2010 - 31 January 2010

22nd Arab Summit Meets in Sirte

Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem

21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010

Four Islamic Jihad Members, Administrative Detainees in Israeli Prisons, Go on Hunger Strike

17 December 2011 - 1 April 2012

Israel’s Settlement Activity

6 June 2012 - 13 August 2012

Abbas Announces Intent to Apply for Observer State Status in Speech at UN General Assembly

27 September 2012

Palestinians' Hunger Strikes in Israeli Prisons

19 February 2013 - 22 April 2013

Aim of Talks Is No Longer a Comprehensive Agreement but a Framework Agreement

14 November 2013 - 31 January 2014

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

Historical Media

Jaffa Road during a General Strike

Lord Peel in Front of King David Hotel

Peel Commission and Partition

11 November 1936

King David Hotel

Scenes of Destruction

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Zionist Operations Against the British Mandate Authorities

1944 - 1947

Highlights

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

III. Late Mandate

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

Palestinian Emigration (I)

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March