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Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Biography
Ali al-Rimawi
1860 - 1919
Biography
Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi
1864 - 6 August 1913
Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - October 1930
Biography
Freih Abu Middein
1871 - 1955
Biography
Isa al-Isa
1878 - 29 June 1950
Biography
Khalil al-Sakakini
23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar
1880 - 1949
Biography
Izzeddin al-Qassam
1882 - 20 November 1935
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Boulos Shehadeh
1882 - 1 August 1943
Biography
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1882 - 1951
Biography
Tawfiq Canaan
24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani
1888 - 20 January 1954
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Rafiq al-Tamimi
1889 - 1957
Biography
Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali
1889 - 7 July 1973
Biography
Jamal al-Husseini
1892 - 5 July 1982
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini
1895 - 4 July 1974
Biography
Musa Nasir
4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Matiel Mogannam
15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992
Biography
Fuad Saba
1902 - 27 August 1984
Biography
Ihsan al-Nimr
1905 - 21 May 1985
Biography
Najati Sidqi
15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979
Biography
Sophie Halaby
26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997
Biography
Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih
1907 - 8 January 2001
Biography
Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini
1908 - 8 April 1948
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Biography
Abd al-Majid Shuman
1912 - 5 July 2005
Biography
Qudsia Khourshid
5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009
Biography
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud
1913 - 13 July 1948
Biography
Anwar Nuseibeh
1913 - 1986
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Emile Touma
16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985
Biography
Haydar Abd al-Shafi
10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007
Biography
Fatima al-Budeiri
1923 - June 2009
Biography
Yusra al-Barbari
15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009
Biography
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Ismail Shammout
2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah
12 October 1943
Biography
Abd al-Aziz Rantisi
1947 - 17 April 2004
Biography
Dalal al-Mughrabi
29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978
Biography
Khalida Jarrar
9 February 1963
Biography
Tawfiq Ibrahim
- 1966
Charts
Document
Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Growth
1860 - 1948
Document
Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Jewish Immigration
1882 - 1948
Document
Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”, 1932, 1951 and 2015
1932 - 2015
Document
Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Jewish Immigration
1948 - 2013
Events
Event
Establishment of Petah Tikva, the First Zionist Colony in Palestine
1878 - 1882
Event
Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe
1881 - 1884
Event
The Ottoman Government Sets Out Principles Governing Jewish Immigration to the Empire
24 November 1881
Event
Seven Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1880s
1882 - 1884
Event
First Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine
1882 - 1903
Event
Emerging Palestinian Opposition to Zionist Settlement: al-Yahudiyya Village Against Petah Tikva Settlement
29 March 1886
Event
European Powers Press the Ottomans on Jewish Immigration
2 March 1888 - 4 October 1888
Event
Nine Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1890s
1890 - 1896
Event
Jerusalem Notables Oppose Jewish Immigration
24 June 1891
Event
Establishment of the Jewish Colonization Association
September 1891
Event
Publication of The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
February 1896
Event
Local Control of Zionist Land Purchases in the Sanjaq of Jerusalem
1897 - 1901
Event
1st Zionist Congress in Basel Calls for a Jewish Home in Palestine
29 August 1897 - 31 August 1897
Event
2nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
28 August 1898 - 31 August 1898
Event
Eight Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1899 and 1907
1899 - 1907
Event
3rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
15 August 1899 - 18 August 1899
Event
4th Zionist Congress Is Held in London
13 August 1900 - 16 August 1900
Event
Ottoman Consolidated Regulations on Jewish Residence and Land Purchase in Palestine
29 November 1900 - 28 January 1901
Event
Palestinian Peasants in Tiberias Score a Rare Success Against Zionist Land Acquisition
8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901
Event
5th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
26 December 1901 - 30 December 1901
Event
Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company
7 July 1903 - 24 November 1903
Event
6th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
23 August 1903 - 28 August 1903
Event
2nd Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine
1904 - 1914
Event
Theodor Herzl Dies; Replaced by David Wolffsohn
3 July 1904
Event
Palestinian-Zionist Tension at al-Shajara - Sejera in the Tiberias Region
August 1904 - September 1904
Event
Emerging Palestinian Identity and Arab Nationalism
1905 - 1914
Event
7th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
27 July 1905 - 2 August 1905
Event
Creation of Underground Bar Giora Group
29 September 1907
Event
The Zionist Organization Opens an Office in Jaffa
December 1907
Event
Six Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1908 and 1910
1908 - 1910
Event
Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa
16 March 1908
Event
Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa
December 1908
Event
Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley
March 1909 - July 1909
Event
Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony
3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909
Event
Foundation of Tel Aviv
11 April 1909
Event
Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer
12 April 1909
Event
Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives
June 1909 - 2 November 1909
Event
Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law
16 August 1909
Event
First Major Debate on Zionism in Ottoman Parliament
March 1911 - May 1911
Event
10th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
9 August 1911 - 15 August 1911
Event
A Zionist–Arab Incident in Zarnuqa
23 July 1913
Event
Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans
10 June 1916
Event
Balfour Declaration Is Made
2 November 1917
Event
British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan
21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918
Event
Arrival in Palestine of the Zionist Commission
April 1918
Event
Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City
26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918
Event
3rd Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine
1919 - 1923
Event
The General Syrian Congress and the King-Crane Commission
2 July 1919 - 3 July 1919
Event
Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
28 August 1919
Event
Palin Commission of Inquiry
12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920
Event
San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates
25 April 1920
Event
Founding of the Haganah, the Jewish Paramilitary Organization
June 1920
Event
International Zionist Conference Meets in London
July 1920
Event
Palestine Civil Government and Appointment of Herbert Samuel as High Commisioner
1 July 1920
Event
French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon
14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920
Event
The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan
25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920
Event
Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan
2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921
Event
Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir
11 April 1921
Event
May Day Clashes in Jaffa
1 May 1921 - 7 May 1921
Event
Report of the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry on Jaffa Disturbances
10 August 1921
Event
White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration
3 June 1922
Event
The League of Nations Confirms Britain’s Mandate over Palestine
24 July 1922
Event
The British Issue a Constitution for Palestine in the Form of an Order in Council
10 August 1922
Event
5th Palestinian National Congress Meets in Nablus
20 August 1922 - 1 September 1922
Event
League of Nations Approves Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home
14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922
Event
1st British Census of Palestine
October 1922
Event
British-French Agreement on Boundary Line Between Palestine and Lebanon and Syria
7 March 1923
Event
British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah
25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923
Event
The Palestine Communist Party Is Officially Announced
9 July 1923
Event
Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey
24 July 1923
Event
13th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)
6 August 1923 - 18 August 1923
Event
Palestinians Reject Arab Agency Scheme
12 October 1923
Event
4th Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine
1924 - 1928
Event
Establishment of the Zionist Revisionist Movement
1925
Event
14th Zionist Congress Is Held in Vienna
18 August 1925 - 31 August 1925
Event
Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine
April 1927
Event
15th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
30 August 1927 - 11 September 1927
Event
Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate
20 February 1928
Event
Tension Over al-Buraq/ Western Wall
23 September 1928 - 30 October 1928
Event
White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall
19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928
Event
5th Wave of Jewish Immigration
1929 - 1939
Event
16th Zionist Congress Is Held in Zurich
28 July 1929 - 11 August 1929
Event
1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
26 October 1929
Event
Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances
12 March 1930
Event
Hope Simpson Report Is Published
22 August 1930 - 20 October 1930
Event
White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published
20 October 1930
Event
MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann
13 February 1931
Event
Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme
19 July 1931 - April 1932
Event
A Conference in Nablus Debates Resorting to Arms
1 August 1931
Event
2nd British Census of Palestine
November 1931
Event
Increase in Jewish Immigration from Germany
1933 - 1935
Event
18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague
21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933
Event
General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine
8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933
Event
Murison Commission of Inquiry
4 January 1934
Event
Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially
January 1935
Event
Establishment of the Reform Party
18 June 1935
Event
Nuremberg Laws and Jewish Immigration
15 September 1935
Event
Establishment of the National Bloc Party
4 October 1935
Event
Joint Memorandum of Palestinian Parties
25 November 1935
Event
Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936
Event
First Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
15 April 1936 - 23 July 1937
Event
British Secure Military Reinforcements and Arm a Jewish Settlement Police
May 1936 - September 1936
Event
Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine
7 July 1937
Event
Palestinians Reject Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Event
Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
23 July 1937 - September 1938
Event
20th Zionist Congress Meets in Zürich
3 August 1937 - 16 August 1937
Event
Charles Tegart's Means of Control
3 December 1937
Event
Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee
21 March 1938
Event
Third Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
October 1938 - September 1939
Event
The "International Parliamentarian Congress of Arab and Islamic Countries in Support of Palestine" Is Held in Cairo
7 October 1938 - 11 October 1938
Event
Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published
9 November 1938
Event
The British Government Rejects the Conclusions of the Partition (Woodhead) Commission
11 November 1938
Event
Jewish-Arab Attacks Resume
30 January 1939 - 26 February 1939
Event
London Round Table Conference Convenes
7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939
Event
MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians
17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939
Event
The Palestine Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
Event
21st Zionist Congress Meets in Geneva
16 August 1939 - 25 August 1939
Event
Blowing up of SS Patria
November 1940
Event
Zionist Biltmore Conference Is Held in New York
6 May 1942 - 11 May 1942
Event
Support in the United States for a Jewish Army
November 1942
Event
Five-year Limit on Jewish Immigration Extended
November 1943
Event
Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British
January 1944 - March 1944
Event
British Labour Party Favors Transfer of Palestinians
May 1944
Event
Establishment of the Institute of Arab American Affairs (IAAA) in New York
25 November 1944 - 31 January 1950
Event
Establishment of Lebanese Consulate General in Palestine
30 December 1944 - 23 May 1945
Event
Roosevelt and Ibn Saud Meet
14 February 1945
Event
Labor Victory in Great Britain
26 July 1945
Event
Truman and Jewish Immigration to Palestine
31 August 1945
Event
Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism
1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945
Event
Bevin's Statement on Palestine; Formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
13 November 1945
Event
The US Congress Endorses the Biltmore Program
17 December 1945 - 19 December 1945
Event
Lebanon Ends Granting Import Licenses for Palestine Goods
4 January 1946
Event
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Publishes its Report after a Visit to Palestine
6 March 1946 - 20 April 1946
Event
League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN
18 April 1946
Event
Haganah's Plan Gimmel
May 1946
Event
Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan and Establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
25 May 1946
Event
President Truman Supports Jewish Immigration to Palestine
6 June 1946
Event
Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks
17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946
Event
Anglo-American Conference Meets in London and Proposes the Morrison-Grady Federal Plan
24 July 1946
Event
Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement
5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946
Event
Arab Delegations Put Forward Constitutional Proposals to the London Round Table Conference on Palestine
30 September 1946
Event
22nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
9 December 1946 - 24 December 1946
Event
London Round Table Conference Reopens and Fails
27 January 1947 - 18 February 1947
Event
Majority of UNSCOP Members Recommend Partition
15 June 1947 - 3 September 1947
Event
Palestinians and Zionists on UNSCOP Partition Plan
29 September 1947 - 3 October 1947
Event
UNGA 181 (II): Palestine Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Event
First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense
29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948
Event
The Haganah Implements Plan Gimmel
1 December 1947
Event
Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan
6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947
Event
Series of Zionist Attacks
2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948
Event
Palestinian Attacks
14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948
Event
British Break Arab Attacks
6 February 1948 - 10 February 1948
Event
Transjordan and Great Britain Agree on Jordanian Military Intervention in Palestine
7 February 1948
Event
Zionist Attacks
15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948
Event
Plan Dalet Finalized by the Haganah
10 March 1948
Event
Second Phase of the Palestine War: Zionist Offensive
10 March 1948 - 15 May 1948
Event
Haganah Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
Palestinian Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition
18 March 1948 - 30 March 1948
Event
Early Responses to Truce and Trusteeship Ideas
19 March 1948 - 20 March 1948
Event
SC Res. 43: Calling for an Immediate Truce in Palestine
1 April 1948
Event
Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road
3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948
Event
Zionist Leadership Decides to Proclaim Jewish State on 16 May
12 April 1948
Event
Fighting Around Jerusalem
12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948
Event
SC Res. 46: Calling upon All Parties to Cease Military Activities in Palestine
17 April 1948
Event
Trusteeship Plan for Palestine
20 April 1948
Event
Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa
24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948
Event
Operation Jevussi for the Conquest of Jerusalem
26 April 1948 - 30 April 1948
Event
Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee
28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948
Event
Arab Gains in Gush Etzion
3 May 1948 - 14 May 1948
Event
Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area
8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948
Event
Operation Barak Toward the South
9 May 1948 - 13 May 1948
Event
Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee
13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948
Event
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
14 May 1948
Event
Operations Shfifon and Kilshon in Jerusalem
14 May 1948 - 28 May 1948
Event
The British Mandate Ends. The US Recognizes the State of Israel
15 May 1948
Event
Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders
15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948
Event
Third Phase of the Palestine War: Arab-Israeli War
15 May 1948 - 6 January 1949
Event
Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan
28 June 1948
Event
Israeli Intelligence Report on the Depopulation of Palestine until 31 May 1948
30 June 1948
Event
Jordan and Israel Sign Agreement on Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area
7 July 1948
Event
End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem
8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948
Event
Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce
15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948
Event
Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis
30 January 1949
Event
The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis
31 January 1949
Event
Arab Sacrifice Brigade Formed and Dissolved
1 March 1949 - 30 November 1950
Event
Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)
24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949
Event
UNGA 302 (IV): Establishment of Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
8 December 1949
Event
Israeli Law of Return
5 July 1950
Event
Development Authority (Transfer of Property) Law, 5710-1950
9 August 1950
Event
UNRWA Signs Agreement with Egypt as Administrator of Refugee Host Area
12 September 1950
Event
UNGA 393 (V): Economic Reintegration of Refugees in the Middle East
2 December 1950
Event
UNRWA Signs Agreement with Jordan as Refugee Host Country
14 March 1951 - 20 August 1951
Event
23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951
Event
UNGA 513 (VI): UNRWA to Carry Refugee Relief and Reintegration for 3 Years
26 January 1952
Event
Palestinians in Israel Protest the Nationality law
14 July 1952
Event
The Zionist Organization/Jewish Agency Status Law
24 November 1952
Event
The Knesset Adopts the Law of State Education
12 August 1953
Event
Jordanian Nationality Law
16 February 1954
Event
Covenant between Zionist Organization and Israel
26 July 1954
Event
Exchange of Notes between Lebanon and UNRWA
26 November 1954
Event
Palestinians in Gaza Rise Up Against Resettlement Projects
1 March 1955 - 6 March 1955
Event
24th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
24 April 1956 - 7 May 1956
Event
Israel Occupies Gaza
1 November 1956 - 7 March 1957
Event
Israel Addresses the Future of Gaza
10 November 1956 - 3 February 1957
Event
UNRWA Director Issues Special Report on Situation in Gaza Strip
15 December 1956
Event
Lebanon Establishes the Department of Palestinian Refugee Affairs at the Ministry of Interior
31 March 1959
Event
Arab States Protest Jewish Immigration
11 May 1959
Event
Lebanon Establishes a Higher Commission for Palestine Affairs
26 April 1960
Event
Basic Law: Israel Lands
19 July 1960
Event
Israel Land Administration Law, 5720-1960
25 July 1960
Event
25th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
27 December 1960 - 11 January 1961
Event
1st Arab Summit Meets in Cairo, Deals with Israeli Diversion of the Jordan River
13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964
Event
A Lebanese Decree, Implicitly Applicable to Palestinian Refugees, Regulates Work of Foreigners
18 September 1964
Event
26th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
30 December 1964 - 10 January 1965
Event
The PLO Opens its First Information Office in New York
22 January 1965 - 29 October 1974
Event
Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA
14 June 1967
Event
General Assembly Resolution 2252 (ES-V)
4 July 1967
Event
Small Fraction of 1967 War Refugees to Return to the West Bank
14 August 1967 - 19 October 1967
Event
First Communiqué of Fatah to the World Press in English and Arabic
January 1968
Event
Settlement Attempt in Hebron
12 April 1968 - 16 June 1968
Event
Israel Land Requisition in Old City of Jerusalem
18 April 1968
Event
27th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
9 June 1968 - 19 June 1968
Event
Military Order No. 291 on Land Settlement
19 December 1968
Event
Military Order No. 321 Concerning Land Law (Acquisition for Public Purposes)
28 March 1969
Event
UNGA 2535 (XXIV): Reiterating Past Resolutions on UNRWA; Affirming Inalienable Rights of People of Palestine
10 December 1969
Event
PFLP Hijack Operations
6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970
Event
UNGA 2672 (XXV): People of Palestine Entitled to Equal Rights and Self-determination; Calling upon Israel for Return of Displaced in 1967
8 December 1970
Event
UNGA 2792 (XXVI): Deploring Israel's Operations in the Gaza Strip
6 December 1971
Event
28th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
18 January 1972 - 28 January 1972
Event
October War, 1st Day
6 October 1973
Event
The Koenig Memorandum on Israeli Policy toward the Palestinians in Israel
1 March 1976 - April 1976
Event
Draft SC Res. S/12022 to Deplore Israeli Policies that Could Change Jerusalem Status, Vetoed by US
25 March 1976
Event
13th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo
12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977
Event
Menachem Begin: "Territories Are Not Occupied"
19 May 1977
Event
29th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
20 February 1978 - 1 March 1978
Event
6th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Alexandria
26 September 1979 - 27 September 1979
Event
Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Alexandria
27 March 1980
Event
Palestinian Operation Against Settlers in Hebron
2 May 1980 - 3 May 1980
Event
Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors
2 June 1980 - 3 June 1980
Event
30th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
7 December 1982 - 16 December 1982
Event
Israeli Settlements in the West Bank
21 March 1983 - 11 April 1983
Event
Tension in Hebron
1 July 1983 - 30 July 1983
Event
Tal Rumayda Settlement in Hebron
8 August 1984
Event
Amendment No. 9 of Basic Law: The Knesset to Facilitate Disqualification of Arab Candidates to Elections
31 July 1985
Event
Al-Quds, a Nablus-Based Palestinian News Agency, Is Closed for Two Years
25 October 1987
Event
31st Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
6 December 1987 - 10 December 1987
Event
Mass Emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel Is Triggered
1 October 1989 - 14 January 1990
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit in Baghdad
28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990
Event
Haram al-Sharif Killings
8 October 1990
Event
Secretary Baker Second Stage Diplomacy
21 July 1991 - 13 October 1991
Event
The Knesset Enacts the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty
17 March 1992
Event
5th Negotiation Round, Washington
27 April 1992 - 30 April 1992
Event
Norwegian Secret Channel, Official Stage
20 May 1993 - 20 August 1993
Event
Hebron Massacre
25 February 1994 - 18 March 1994
Event
The Mirage of the 5-Year Countdown to Palestinian Statehood
4 May 1994 - 3 May 1999
Event
Anti-Israeli Attacks and Inter-Palestinian Tension
2 April 1995 - 19 April 1995
Event
Land Expropriation in Jerusalem
27 April 1995 - 3 May 1995
Event
Israeli Army Redeploys from Areas in the West Bank
November 1995 - December 1995
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo
21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996
Event
Israel's Position on Further Redeployment and on Palestinian Obligations
23 November 1997 - 14 January 1998
Event
Renewed Israeli Settlement Activities and Plans in East Jerusalem
25 May 1998 - 21 June 1998
Event
Feverish Settlement Activities After Wye Memorandum
26 October 1998 - 15 November 1998
Event
Official Resumption of Final Status Talks
13 September 1999 - 6 December 1999
Event
Mounting Anti-Israeli Mobilization
10 May 2000 - 20 May 2000
Event
The Stockholm Back Channel - 2nd Session
18 May 2000 - 22 May 2000
Event
Failure of Final Status Talks at Camp David Summit
11 July 2000 - 25 July 2000
Event
Undermining the Talks and Preparing for their Failure: The Settlers and the Israeli Army
15 July 2000 - 8 August 2000
Event
US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes
4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000
Event
Resumption of Peace Talks; the Clinton "Proposals"
19 December 2000 - 23 December 2000
Event
Ariel Sharon Is Elected Prime Minister of Israel; Intifada Casualties Under Ehud Barak
6 February 2001
Event
The Tenet Cease-Fire Plan
11 June 2001 - 20 June 2001
Event
Amendment No. 35 of Basic Law: The Knesset to Further Facilitate Disqualification of Arab Candidates to Elections
15 May 2002
Event
34th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
17 June 2002 - 20 June 2002
Event
Amendment No. 29 of Knesset Members (Immunity, Rights and Duties) Law
22 July 2002
Event
SC Res. 1435: Concern over Reoccupation of Arafat's Headquarters in Ramallah and Call for Israeli Withdrawal
24 September 2002
Event
Mahmoud Abbas Forms the Palestinian Government
19 March 2003 - 29 April 2003
Event
Aqaba Summit: Bush, Abdullah, Abbas, and Sharon Meet
4 June 2003
Event
Assassination of Ismail Abu Shanab in Gaza City
21 August 2003 - 25 August 2003
Event
The Geneva "Private" Initiative
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
Event
Palestinian Peace Gestures
1 December 2003 - 7 January 2004
Event
Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan
12 January 2004 - 2 February 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
Annual Zionist General Council (WZO) Meets in Jerusalem
18 June 2004
Event
Major Construction Plan in Ma'ale Adumim
21 March 2005 - 6 April 2005
Event
The Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee Is Established
25 November 2005
Event
Olmert's Separation Plan
5 March 2006 - 9 March 2006
Event
35th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
19 June 2006 - 22 June 2006
Event
July War: Massacre in Qana; 48-Hour Partial Suspension of Air Strikes
30 July 2006 - 2 August 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
Event
Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa
4 December 2007
Event
Bush's Statement on Palestinian Statehood, Jerusalem
10 January 2008
Event
Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans
9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008
Event
Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in Acre
8 October 2008 - 13 October 2008
Event
Seal on Gaza Borders Tightened
5 November 2008 - 29 November 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 11: Dramatic Surge in Palestinian Civilian Casualties
6 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 17
12 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 20
15 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza: Parallel Israeli and Hamas Cease-Fires; Balance Sheet
18 January 2009
Event
The New Netanyahu Government Prepares its Position on the Palestinian Issue
31 March 2009 - 5 May 2009
Event
War on Gaza: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Related to UN Premises
4 May 2009
Event
The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Israeli Side: The Settlements Issue
18 May 2009 - 1 June 2009
Event
Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University on Peace and Security for Israel
14 June 2009
Event
Israel's Demolition and Eviction Orders Increase in East Jerusalem
2 August 2009 - 9 November 2009
Event
Israel Land Administration Law
3 August 2009
Event
Clashes in East Jerusalem over al-Aqsa Mosque
27 September 2009 - 25 October 2009
Event
The Deceptive Settlement Freeze
26 November 2009 - 5 January 2010
Event
22nd Arab Summit Meets in Sirte
27 March 2010
Event
36th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
15 June 2010 - 17 June 2010
Event
Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem
21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010
Event
Amid US Pressure for Direct Talks, Provocative Settlement Measures Continue
29 July 2010 - 15 August 2010
Event
Direct Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Held in Sharm al-Shaykh and Jerusalem
14 September 2010 - 15 September 2010
Event
The Knesset passes the Law on Disclosure Requirements for Recipients of Support from a Foreign State Entity
2 March 2011
Event
The Knesset Passes the "Nakba Law"
22 March 2011
Event
The Knesset Passes the "Admissions Committees Law"
22 March 2011
Event
US President Barack Obama Gives a Major Speech on the Middle East
19 May 2011 - 22 May 2011
Event
Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest
27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011
Event
US Legislation against Palestinian Full UN Membership
23 December 2011
Event
Israeli-Palestinian “Exploratory Talks” in Amman
3 January 2012 - 25 January 2012
Event
Israeli Government "Legalizes" Three Jewish Settlement Outposts
22 April 2012 - 24 April 2012
Event
Symbolic Erection of Bab al-Shams and Bab al-Karama villages in the West Bank
11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013
Event
US President Barack Obama Visits Israel and Bethlehem and Ramallah
20 March 2013 - 21 March 2013
Event
24th Arab Summit Meets in Doha
26 March 2013 - 27 March 2013
Event
Terms of Talk Resumption as Sponsored by Kerry
28 July 2013
Event
Aim of Talks Is No Longer a Comprehensive Agreement but a Framework Agreement
14 November 2013 - 31 January 2014
Event
Tension Mounts Over Haram al-Sharif Following Israeli Provocations
4 February 2014 - 26 February 2014
Event
Kerry Draws Up a Working Draft Framework for Negotiations
17 February 2014
Event
Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations
15 March 2014
Event
25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait
25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah
26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 6−8
13 July 2014 - 15 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 9 and 10
16 July 2014 - 17 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction
20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 21-24
28 July 2014 - 31 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet
26 August 2014
Event
Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif
30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014
Event
French Efforts in Favor of a Draft UNSC Resolution on Palestinian-Israeli Peace
2 December 2014 - 17 December 2014
Event
Early Elections Announced in Israel
3 December 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools
27 April 2015
Event
Clashes at Haram al-Sharif
26 July 2015
Event
Settlers Set Fire to Two Palestinian Family Homes in Duma, West Bank
31 July 2015 - 9 August 2015
Event
Tension Escalates at Haram al-Sharif
2 August 2015 - 28 September 2015
Event
37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem
20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015
Event
The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba
21 February 2016
Event
Provocative Israeli Decision Related to Haram al-Sharif
26 June 2016 - 5 July 2016
Event
Continued Violation of the Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif
12 July 2016
Event
Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace
28 December 2016
Event
Settlers Attempt to Modify the Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif
5 February 2017 - 24 May 2017
Event
UNESCWA and the Report on Israeli Apartheid
15 March 2017
Event
Palestinian Popular Response to Israel's Measures over the Haram al-Sharif
16 July 2017 - 23 July 2017
Event
A Unified Lebanese Vision on Issues of Palestinian Refugees Living in Lebanon
20 July 2017
Event
Bezalel Smotrich's "Decisive Plan" for the Complete Land of Israel
7 September 2017
Event
Trump Administration Defunds the UNRWA
16 January 2018 - 25 January 2018
Event
Amendment by the Knesset of Its Code of Ethics to Allow Restricting Palestinian Members' Travel Abroad
22 January 2018 - 13 March 2018
Event
International Community Alleviates Some of the UNRWA's Financial Crisis
15 March 2018
Event
Palestinian Professor of Engineering Fadi al-Batsh Assassinated in Kuala Lumpur
21 April 2018
Event
The Knesset Passes Basic Law: Israel the Nation-State of the Jewish People
19 July 2018 - 30 July 2018
Event
US Cuts Aid to Palestinians
24 August 2018 - 14 September 2018
Event
UNRWA Says International Community Almost Covers Budget Deficit
19 November 2018
Event
PM Hamdallah Rejects any US Assistance Related to ATCA
26 December 2018 - 1 February 2019
Event
Opening of the “Apartheid Road”
10 January 2019
Event
30th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis
31 March 2019
Event
UNRWA Financial Situation Worsened after Misconduct Allegations
29 July 2019 - 13 December 2019
Event
Israeli Government Allows Jewish Visitors to Tour the Haram al-Sharif Compound on Eid al-Adha
11 August 2019 - 18 August 2019
Event
Palestinian Citizens of Israel Protest Israeli Police Inaction in Solving Violent Crimes
28 September 2019 - 5 November 2019
Event
Jerusalem Court Ruling Threatens 700 Palestinians With Eviction
19 January 2020 - 26 January 2020
Event
International and Palestinian Responses to Israel’s Annexation Plans
18 May 2020 - 23 June 2020
Event
Murder Rate Among Palestinian Citizens of Israel Remains High Amid Israeli Police Inaction
21 December 2020
Event
Leading Human Rights Groups Deem Israel an Apartheid State
12 January 2021 - 27 April 2021
Event
Jewish National Fund Adopts New Policy to Purchase and Claim Lands in the West Bank
25 February 2021 - 2 September 2021
Event
US Announces Resumption of UNRWA Funding and Forces UNRWA to Make Severe Policy Changes
7 April 2021 - 23 September 2021
Event
Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada
10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021
Event
Israel Continues to Assert Dominance over the Haram al-Sharif Compound
18 July 2021 - 8 October 2021
Historical Texts
Document
Basel (Zionist) Program
30 August 1897
Document
Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi
19 March 1899
Document
Balfour Declaration
2 November 1917
Document
Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission
3 July 1919
Document
Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
28 August 1919
Document
San Remo Conference Resolutions: Syria, Mesopotamia [Iraq], Palestine Mandates
25 April 1920
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
Document
Churchill White Paper
3 June 1922
Document
League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine
24 July 1922
Document
The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)
10 August 1922
Document
Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922
10 August 1922
Document
Council of the League of Nations: Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate: Approving the Memorandum by the British Representative
16 September 1922
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
Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem
19 November 1928
Document
Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929
12 March 1930
Document
Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
Report “to Determine the Rights and Claims of Moslems and Jews in Connection with the Western or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem”
1 December 1930
Document
MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann
13 February 1931
Document
Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931
19 May 1931
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937
Document
Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Document
Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report
9 November 1938
Document
British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report
11 November 1938
Document
London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
Document
MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
Document
Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
Document
Biltmore Conference Declaration
11 May 1942
Document
The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States
7 October 1944
Document
Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt
14 February 1945
Document
Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
20 April 1946
Document
Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference
30 September 1946
Document
UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Document
UNSC Resolution 43: Calling for an Immediate Truce in Palestine
1 April 1948
Document
UNSC Resolution 46
17 April 1948
Document
UNGA Resolution 186 (S-2)
14 May 1948
Document
US Recognition of the State of Israel
14 May 1948
Document
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
14 May 1948
Document
Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine
15 May 1948
Document
Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine
15 May 1948
Document
Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance
19 May 1948
Document
UNSC Resolution 50
29 May 1948
Document
Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties
28 June 1948
Document
Jordan-Israel Agreement: For the Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area
7 July 1948
Document
Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)
16 September 1948
Document
UNGA Resolution 212 (III)
19 November 1948
Document
UNGA Resolution 194 (III)
11 December 1948
Document
Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement
24 February 1949
Document
Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement
23 March 1949
Document
Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement
3 April 1949
Document
Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre
14 June 1949
Document
Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement
20 July 1949
Document
United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report
22 September 1949
Document
UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)
8 December 1949
Document
Israel Law of Return and its Amendments
5 July 1950
Document
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
Document
UNGA Resolution 393 (V)
2 December 1950
Document
Agreement between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
14 March 1951
Document
UNGA Resolution 513 (VI)
26 January 1952
Document
UNRWA-Egypt Agreement on Economic and Engineering Surveys
30 June 1953
Document
Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA
26 November 1954
Document
Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA
15 December 1956
Document
UNGA Resolution 1604 (XV)
21 April 1961
Document
Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA
14 June 1967
Document
UNGA Resolution 2252 (ES-V)
4 July 1967
Document
Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release
1 January 1968
Document
Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions
10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968
Document
UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)
19 December 1968
Document
Rogers Plan
9 December 1969
Document
UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)
10 December 1969
Document
UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)
8 December 1970
Document
UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)
6 December 1971
Document
Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory
15 August 1973
Document
Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
Document
The Koenig Memorandum
1 March 1976
Document
Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration
12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977
Document
Israel-U.S. Working Paper on the Resumption of the Geneva Peace Conference
5 October 1977
Document
The Regional Committee of the Heads of Arab Local Authorities in Israel Statement On the Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors
3 June 1980
Document
Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué
25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980
Document
Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement
11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 14832/Rev.1
19 January 1982
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-9/1
5 February 1982
Document
Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal
2 September 1982
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement
14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983
Document
UNGA Resolution 38/58
13 December 1983
Document
Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 9
31 July 1985
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466
29 January 1988
Document
Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
Document
Palestinian Declaration of Independence
15 November 1988
Document
Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué
15 November 1988
Document
Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 43/177
15 December 1988
Document
Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement
28 September 1991
Document
Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty
17 March 1992
Document
Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel
30 December 1993
Document
Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations
29 April 1994
Document
Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area
4 May 1994
Document
Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
28 September 1995
Document
Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
5 October 1995
Document
The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document
31 October 1995
Document
Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question
21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996
Document
Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron
17 January 1997
Document
UNGA Resolution 52/250
13 July 1998
Document
President Bill Clinton Proposals for a Final Settlement
23 December 2000
Document
PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement
1 January 2001
Document
Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees
22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001
Document
The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)
27 January 2001
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
The Durban Declaration
8 September 2001
Document
Letter of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
12 March 2002
Document
The Quartet (UN, EU, Russia, US) Communiqué on the Situation in the Occupied Territories
10 April 2002
Document
UNSC Resolution 1405
19 April 2002
Document
Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 35
15 May 2002
Document
Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law
18 March 2003
Document
Israel and the Road Map
23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003
Document
The Geneva Accord
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/14
12 December 2003
Document
President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon
14 April 2004
Document
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles
14 April 2004
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/783
5 October 2004
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/17
24 January 2007
Document
President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech
16 July 2007
Document
President George W. Bush’s Speech Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
10 January 2008
Document
Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry
30 January 2008
Document
Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 39
30 June 2008
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-18
23 January 2009
Document
Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council
4 May 2009
Document
President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World
4 June 2009
Document
Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University
14 June 2009
Document
Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
Document
Mahmoud Abbas's Op-Ed in the New York Times: The Long Overdue Palestinian State
16 May 2011
Document
President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy
19 May 2011
Document
UNGA Resolution 67/19
29 November 2012
Document
HRC Resolution S-21/1
23 July 2014
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2014/916
30 December 2014
Document
Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War
27 April 2015
Document
Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
Document
Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
Document
Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 46
14 March 2017
Document
UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid
15 March 2017
Document
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies
1 May 2017
Document
Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon
20 July 2017
Document
Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering
1 November 2017
Document
Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel
6 December 2017
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516
1 June 2018
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/20
13 June 2018
Document
Basic Law: Israel - the Nation-State of the Jewish People
19 July 2018
Document
UNGA Resolution 73/5
16 October 2018
Document
Palestinian Prime Minister's Letter to Secretary of State on No Longer Accepting US Assistance
26 December 2018
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019
Document
30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration
31 March 2019
Document
Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates
13 August 2020
Document
Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel
15 September 2020
Document
B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
12 January 2021
Document
HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine
27 May 2021
Historical Media
Document
Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)
2 November 1932
Document
Palestine and Oil
1936
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Land in Jewish Possession (1944)
31 December 1944
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Illegal Immigration (I)
1946
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Illegal Immigration (II)
1946
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King David Hotel
24 July 1946
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Land in Jewish Possession (1947)
30 June 1947
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Cairo Street Rejects Palestine Partition
December 1947
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Burning of the Rex Cinema
2 December 1947
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Importation of a Military Industry
1948
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'Palestine Post' Explosion
1 February 1948
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Attack on Jewish Agency Headquarters
11 March 1948
Highlights
Highlight
Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967
The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”
Highlight
Jerusalem
Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City
Highlight
Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
Highlight
Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
Highlight
Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
Highlight
Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity
Highlight
Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
Highlight
Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property
Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967
Incubators of Resistance
Highlight
The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
Highlight
The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party
1948-present
Highlight
Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
Highlight
The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War
1973-1982
Highlight
VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival
1982-1987
Highlight
XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?
2017-
Highlight
Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
Highlight
The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948
The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station
Highlight
Sumud
Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance
Highlight
Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
Highlight
III. Late Mandate
1936-1947
Highlight
UNRWA's Education System
A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking
Highlight
Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
Highlight
The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
Highlight
World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
Highlight
Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005
Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (I)
1850s-1948
Highlight
IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
Highlight
UNRWA
From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity
Highlight
The Education of Palestinians in Israel
Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization
Highlight
XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics
2000-2006
Highlight
V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1950-1966
Highlight
Camp David Accords, 1978-1979
Shattering the Arab Front
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
Highlight
Israel’s Apartheid Regime
Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians
Highlight
Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992
Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967
The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space
Highlight
France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
Highlight
The Judaization of the Galilee
A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity
Highlight
The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
Highlight
The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (II)
1967-present
Highlight
Lebanon War, 1982
A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'
Highlight
Land Day, 30 March 1976
A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel
Highlight
The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
Highlight
Palestine Liberation Organization (II)
From the Limelight to the Backstage
Highlight
The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)
After the Nakba
Highlight
The Palestinian Communist Movement
1948-present
Highlight
Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine
The Emergence of a Working Class
Highlight
Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse
Highlight
The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse
A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism
Highlight
Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
Highlight
Nablus Soap Production
The Decline of an Ancient Heritage
Highlight
The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba
Highlight
The Israeli Military
The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”
Highlight
Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967
A Never-Ending Normalization
Highlight
Jaramana Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
Highlight
I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
Highlight
The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives
Highlight
Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
Highlight
Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Palestinian Youth in Conflict
A Childhood Denied
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (II)
1948-2048
Highlight
Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939
A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (II)
Pathfinders (1955-1965)
Highlight
Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018
Enshrining Discrimination
Highlight
Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
Resolution 242, 22 November 1967
Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement
Highlight
Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
Highlight
Marka Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
June 1967 War
A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Highlight
Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966
Governing the Lives of a Confined Population
Highlight
The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps
Perpetuating the Temporary
Highlight
VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat
1966-1973
Highlight
China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
Highlight
The European Union and the Palestine Question
From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions
Highlight
The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)
Before the Nakba
Highlight
Balata Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Baqa‘a Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Fawwar Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp
Syria
Highlight
Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Sbeineh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation
Highlight
Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact
Highlight
Mar Elias Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Talbieh Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Rashidiyya Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Italy and the Palestine Question
From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility
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Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
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Urban Palestine
Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations
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Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”
Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History
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Mexico and the Palestine Question
Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor
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The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
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Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Syria
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Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Spain and the Palestine Question
Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel
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Palestinians in Germany
From Melancholia to Anger
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The Village of al-Araqib
Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond
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The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991
Between Ideology and Realism
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Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
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Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank
Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda
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The Palestinian Poster
Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols
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Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988
Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood
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The May 2021 Gaza War
Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes
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The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip
Thwarting Resettlement Schemes
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The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
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The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
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Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
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Dera‘a Refugee Camp
Syria
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The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw
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The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status
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The Algerians of Palestine
1830-1948
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The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
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The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question
Solidarity of the Colonized
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Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
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The Palestinians in Sweden
Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses
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Palestinian Labor in Israel
A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests
Periods
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II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
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V. Reverberations of the Palestine War
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XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era
Thematic Chronologies
Thematic Chronology
British and International Commissions of Inquiry in Mandate Palestine
1919 - 1946
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