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Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

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

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

1885 - 19 December 1953

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1894 - 19 March 1949

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

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

1962 - 31 July 2024

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

Establishment of Petah Tikva, the First Zionist Colony in Palestine

Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe

The Ottoman Government Sets Out Principles Governing Jewish Immigration to the Empire

24 November 1881

Seven Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1880s

First Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Emerging Palestinian Opposition to Zionist Settlement: al-Yahudiyya Village Against Petah Tikva Settlement

European Powers Press the Ottomans on Jewish Immigration

2 March 1888 - 4 October 1888

Nine Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1890s

Jerusalem Notables Oppose Jewish Immigration

Establishment of the Jewish Colonization Association

Publication of The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

Local Control of Zionist Land Purchases in the Sanjaq of Jerusalem

1st Zionist Congress in Basel Calls for a Jewish Home in Palestine

29 August 1897 - 31 August 1897

2nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

28 August 1898 - 31 August 1898

Eight Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1899 and 1907

3rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

15 August 1899 - 18 August 1899

4th Zionist Congress Is Held in London

13 August 1900 - 16 August 1900

Ottoman Consolidated Regulations on Jewish Residence and Land Purchase in Palestine

29 November 1900 - 28 January 1901

Palestinian Peasants in Tiberias Score a Rare Success Against Zionist Land Acquisition

8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901

5th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

26 December 1901 - 30 December 1901

Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company

7 July 1903 - 24 November 1903

6th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

23 August 1903 - 28 August 1903

2nd Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Theodor Herzl Dies; Replaced by David Wolffsohn

Palestinian-Zionist Tension at al-Shajara - Sejera in the Tiberias Region

August 1904 - September 1904

Emerging Palestinian Identity and Arab Nationalism

7th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

27 July 1905 - 2 August 1905

Creation of Underground Bar Giora Group

29 September 1907

The Zionist Organization Opens an Office in Jaffa

Six Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1908 and 1910

Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa

Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa

Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley

March 1909 - July 1909

Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony

3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909

Foundation of Tel Aviv

Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer

Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives

June 1909 - 2 November 1909

Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law

First Major Debate on Zionism in Ottoman Parliament

March 1911 - May 1911

10th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

9 August 1911 - 15 August 1911

A Zionist–Arab Incident in Zarnuqa

Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

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

Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

Balfour Declaration Is Made

2 November 1917

British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan

21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918

Arrival in Palestine of the Zionist Commission

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

3rd Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Treaty of Versailles; Establishment of the League of Nations

28 June 1919 - 10 January 1920

The General Syrian Congress and the King-Crane Commission

2 July 1919 - 3 July 1919

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant

10 January 1920

Palin Commission of Inquiry

12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920

San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates

Founding of the Haganah, the Jewish Paramilitary Organization

International Zionist Conference Meets in London

Palestine Civil Government and Appointment of Herbert Samuel as High Commisioner

French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

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

May Day Clashes in Jaffa

1 May 1921 - 7 May 1921

Report of the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry on Jaffa Disturbances

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

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

The British Issue a Constitution for Palestine in the Form of an Order in Council

5th Palestinian National Congress Meets in Nablus

20 August 1922 - 1 September 1922

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

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

1st British Census of Palestine

British-French Agreement on Boundary Line Between Palestine and Lebanon and Syria

British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah

25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923

The Palestine Communist Party Is Officially Announced

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

13th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

6 August 1923 - 18 August 1923

Official Onset of British Mandate for Palestine

29 September 1923

Palestinians Reject Arab Agency Scheme

12 October 1923

4th Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Establishment of the Zionist Revisionist Movement

14th Zionist Congress Is Held in Vienna

18 August 1925 - 31 August 1925

Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine

15th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

30 August 1927 - 11 September 1927

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

Tension Over al-Buraq/ Western Wall

23 September 1928 - 30 October 1928

Islamic Conference in Defense of al-Buraq and Muslim Holy Places in Jerusalem

1 November 1928

White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall

19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928

5th Wave of Jewish Immigration

16th Zionist Congress Is Held in Zurich

28 July 1929 - 11 August 1929

al-Buraq / Western Wall: Palestinians Rise up in Protest against Zionist Provocations

15 August 1929 - 29 August 1929

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

26 October 1929

League of Nations Council Approves the Appointment of an International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall

14 January 1930 - 15 May 1930

Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances

Hope Simpson Report Is Published

22 August 1930 - 20 October 1930

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1931

A Conference in Nablus Debates Resorting to Arms

2nd British Census of Palestine

Increase in Jewish Immigration from Germany

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Murison Commission of Inquiry

Establishment of the National Defense Party

2 December 1934

Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially

Establishment of the Reform Party

Nuremberg Laws and Jewish Immigration

15 September 1935

Establishment of the National Bloc Party

Joint Memorandum of Palestinian Parties

25 November 1935

Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936

First Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 23 July 1937

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

British Secure Military Reinforcements and Arm a Jewish Settlement Police

May 1936 - September 1936

Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1937

18 March 1937 - 24 March 1937

Avner Defense Plan

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

Palestinians Reject Peel Commission Report

Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

23 July 1937 - September 1938

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

August 1937 - May 1941

20th Zionist Congress Meets in Zürich

3 August 1937 - 16 August 1937

Charles Tegart's Means of Control

3 December 1937

Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee

Third Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

October 1938 - September 1939

The "International Parliamentarian Congress of Arab and Islamic Countries in Support of Palestine" Is Held in Cairo

7 October 1938 - 11 October 1938

The Eastern Women's Congress in Defense of Palestine Is Held in Cairo

15 October 1938 - 18 October 1938

Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published

9 November 1938

The British Government Rejects the Conclusions of the Partition (Woodhead) Commission

11 November 1938

Jewish-Arab Attacks Resume

30 January 1939 - 26 February 1939

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians

17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939

The Palestine Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

21st Zionist Congress Meets in Geneva

16 August 1939 - 25 August 1939

Blowing up of SS Patria

Zionist Biltmore Conference Is Held in New York

6 May 1942 - 11 May 1942

Support in the United States for a Jewish Army

Five-year Limit on Jewish Immigration Extended

Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British

January 1944 - March 1944

British Labour Party Favors Transfer of Palestinians

Alexandria Protocol and the League of Arab States

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

25 November 1944 - 31 January 1950

Roosevelt and Ibn Saud Meet

14 February 1945

Pact of the League of Arab States; Annex on Palestine

Labor Victory in Great Britain

Truman and Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

The British Mandate Issues the Defence (Emergency) Regulations

27 September 1945

Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism

1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945

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

13 November 1945

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

The US Congress Endorses the Biltmore Program

17 December 1945 - 19 December 1945

Lebanon Ends Granting Import Licenses for Palestine Goods

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

6 March 1946 - 20 April 1946

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN

Haganah's Plan Gimmel

Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan and Establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Arab League Holds its First Summit on Palestine in Anshas

28 May 1946 - 29 May 1946

Formation of the (Palestinian) Arab Higher Front in Opposition to the Palestine Arab Party

President Truman Supports Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Arab League Supervises the Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

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

Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement

5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946

Arab Delegations Put Forward Constitutional Proposals to the London Round Table Conference on Palestine

30 September 1946

22nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

9 December 1946 - 24 December 1946

London Round Table Conference Reopens and Fails

27 January 1947 - 18 February 1947

Majority of UNSCOP Members Recommend Partition

15 June 1947 - 3 September 1947

Arab League Meeting on Palestine, in Sofar, Lebanon

16 September 1947 - 19 September 1947

Palestinians and Zionists on UNSCOP Partition Plan

29 September 1947 - 3 October 1947

Arab League Meeting on Palestine in Aley, Lebanon

7 October 1947 - 15 October 1947

UNGA 181 (II): Palestine Partition Plan

29 November 1947

First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense

29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948

The Haganah Implements Plan Gimmel

1 December 1947

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

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Arab League Rejects Partition Plan

8 December 1947 - 16 December 1947

Arab Liberation Army Organized

1 January 1948 - 10 January 1948

Series of Zionist Attacks

2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948

Palestinian Attacks

14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948

British Break Arab Attacks

6 February 1948 - 10 February 1948

Transjordan and Great Britain Agree on Jordanian Military Intervention in Palestine

7 February 1948

Zionist Attacks

15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948

Plan Dalet Finalized by the Haganah

Second Phase of the Palestine War: Zionist Offensive

10 March 1948 - 15 May 1948

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition

18 March 1948 - 30 March 1948

Early Responses to Truce and Trusteeship Ideas

19 March 1948 - 20 March 1948

SC Res. 43: Calling for an Immediate Truce in Palestine

Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Zionist Leadership Decides to Proclaim Jewish State on 16 May

Fighting Around Jerusalem

12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948

SC Res. 46: Calling upon All Parties to Cease Military Activities in Palestine

Trusteeship Plan for Palestine

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Operation Jevussi for the Conquest of Jerusalem

26 April 1948 - 30 April 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Arab States (Reluctantly) Prepare for Intervention in Palestine

30 April 1948 - 12 May 1948

Arab Gains in Gush Etzion

3 May 1948 - 14 May 1948

Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area

8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948

Operation Barak Toward the South

9 May 1948 - 13 May 1948

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Operations Shfifon and Kilshon in Jerusalem

14 May 1948 - 28 May 1948

Arab States Explain Reasons for Intervening in Palestine

The British Mandate Ends. The US Recognizes the State of Israel

Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

Third Phase of the Palestine War: Arab-Israeli War

15 May 1948 - 6 January 1949

West Bank to Be Placed under Jordanian Military Government

16 May 1948 - 24 May 1948

Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

Israeli Intelligence Report on the Depopulation of Palestine until 31 May 1948

Responses to Bernadotte's Plan

2 July 1948 - 5 July 1948

Jordan and Israel Sign Agreement on Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area

End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem

8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948

The Arab League and the Establishment of a Provisional Palestinian Civil Administration

Israel Declares Jerusalem Occupied City

Bernadotte's New Plan

16 September 1948

Israel's Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance

16 September 1948

Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

Israel Establishes Military Government in Palestinian Areas

21 October 1948

Israel Strengthens Its Political Control over Jerusalem; Military Government Dissolved

20 December 1948 - 17 February 1949

Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"

January 1949 - December 1956

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Arab Sacrifice Brigade Formed and Dissolved

1 March 1949 - 30 November 1950

Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)

24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949

Israel's Measures to Make Jerusalem Its Capital

23 January 1950 - 13 July 1953

Israeli Law of Return

Development Authority (Transfer of Property) Law, 5710-1950

23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951

Palestinians in Israel Protest the Nationality law

The Zionist Organization/Jewish Agency Status Law

24 November 1952

The Knesset Adopts the Law of State Education

General Islamic Conference on Palestine, Jerusalem

3 December 1953 - 9 December 1953

Arab League and Jordan River Waters

15 February 1954

Jordanian Nationality Law

16 February 1954

Israel and the Lavon Affair

July 1954 - 17 February 1955

Covenant between Zionist Organization and Israel

The Knesset Issues the Prevention of Infiltration Law

With Mounting Tension In and Around Gaza, a Turning Point for Egypt and Opportunities for Israel

3 April 1955 - 27 September 1955

Arab Information Center (AIC) Is Opened in New York

Egypt and Syria Sign a Mutual Defense Pact

20 October 1955

Israeli Raid on Syria Followed by Egyptian-Israeli Confrontation Near al-Auja

23 October 1955 - 3 November 1955

24th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

24 April 1956 - 7 May 1956

France and Israel Sign Arms Deal and Prepare for War

22 June 1956 - 29 July 1956

Basic Law for the Gaza Strip

25 February 1958 - 15 March 1958

The Arab League and Palestinian Entity

Arab States Protest Jewish Immigration

Lebanon Establishes a Higher Commission for Palestine Affairs

Basic Law: Israel Lands

Israel Land Administration Law, 5720-1960

25th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

27 December 1960 - 11 January 1961

The Arab League and Implementation of Palestinian Entity

29 May 1961 - 26 June 1961

Death of Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi; Ahmad al-Shuqairi as Palestine Delegate to the Arab League

29 June 1963 - 19 September 1963

Palestinian Delegation at the UN

18 October 1963 - 5 November 1963

1st Arab Summit Meets in Cairo, Deals with Israeli Diversion of the Jordan River

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

26th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

30 December 1964 - 10 January 1965

The PLO Opens its First Information Office in New York

22 January 1965 - 29 October 1974

The Council of the Arab League Adopts the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in the Arab States

11 September 1965

Reservations of Lebanon, Kuwait and Libya to the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

Syria Signs a Mutual Defense Agreement with Egypt

4 November 1966

Jordan Signs a Joint Defense Pact with Egypt

Israel Prepares for War with US Consent

2 June 1967 - 4 June 1967

Israeli Military Order Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions (West Bank) No. 101

First Communiqué of Fatah to the World Press in English and Arabic

Settlement Attempt in Hebron

12 April 1968 - 16 June 1968

Israel Land Requisition in Old City of Jerusalem

27th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

9 June 1968 - 19 June 1968

Military Order No. 291 on Land Settlement

19 December 1968

Military Order No. 321 Concerning Land Law (Acquisition for Public Purposes)

PFLP Hijack Operations

6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970

28th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

18 January 1972 - 28 January 1972

October War, 1st Day

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

The Koenig Memorandum on Israeli Policy toward the Palestinians in Israel

1 March 1976 - April 1976

Draft SC Res. S/12022 to Deplore Israeli Policies that Could Change Jerusalem Status, Vetoed by US

Palestinian "Land Day"

PLO Becomes a Full Member of the Arab League

9 September 1976

13th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

Menachem Begin: "Territories Are Not Occupied"

29th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

20 February 1978 - 1 March 1978

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

5 November 1978

Arab Sanctions Against Egypt

27 March 1979 - 31 March 1979

6th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Alexandria

26 September 1979 - 27 September 1979

10th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Israeli Model for Palestinian Self-Governing Authority

17 January 1980

Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Alexandria

Palestinian Operation Against Settlers in Hebron

2 May 1980 - 3 May 1980

Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors

2 June 1980 - 3 June 1980

Sharon Goes to Washington to Get Green Light on Lebanon War

30th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

7 December 1982 - 16 December 1982

Kahan Report on the Sabra-Shatila Massacres

7 February 1983 - 10 February 1983

Israeli Settlements in the West Bank

21 March 1983 - 11 April 1983

Tension in Hebron

1 July 1983 - 30 July 1983

Tal Rumayda Settlement in Hebron

Amendment No. 9 of Basic Law: The Knesset to Facilitate Disqualification of Arab Candidates to Elections

Arafat's "Cairo Declaration" on Terrorism

7 November 1985

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Amman

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

31st Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

6 December 1987 - 10 December 1987

Israel's Policy of "Beating"

19 January 1988 - 27 January 1988

The Intifada and the Israeli Response in Another Stage in the Confrontation

11 March 1988 - 29 March 1988

A Palestine Affairs Center, under the Auspices of the Arab League, Is Opened in Washington

1 April 1988 - 28 April 1994

Tougher Israeli Measures Against the Intifada

17 January 1989

Israel Proposes Elections in the West Bank and Gaza

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Casablanca

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Mass Emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel Is Triggered

1 October 1989 - 14 January 1990

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Baghdad

28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990

Haram al-Sharif Killings

Secretary Baker Second Stage Diplomacy

21 July 1991 - 13 October 1991

China and Israel Establish Diplomatic Relations

24 January 1992

The Knesset Enacts the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty

5th Negotiation Round, Washington

27 April 1992 - 30 April 1992

Norwegian Secret Channel, Official Stage

20 May 1993 - 20 August 1993

Hebron Massacre

25 February 1994 - 18 March 1994

The Mirage of the 5-Year Countdown to Palestinian Statehood

4 May 1994 - 3 May 1999

US State Department Allows the PLO to Open Foreign Mission in Washington

Anti-Israeli Attacks and Inter-Palestinian Tension

2 April 1995 - 19 April 1995

Land Expropriation in Jerusalem

27 April 1995 - 3 May 1995

Israeli Army Redeploys from Areas in the West Bank

November 1995 - December 1995

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Israel's Position on Further Redeployment and on Palestinian Obligations

23 November 1997 - 14 January 1998

Renewed Israeli Settlement Activities and Plans in East Jerusalem

25 May 1998 - 21 June 1998

Feverish Settlement Activities After Wye Memorandum

26 October 1998 - 15 November 1998

Official Resumption of Final Status Talks

13 September 1999 - 6 December 1999

Mounting Anti-Israeli Mobilization

10 May 2000 - 20 May 2000

Failure of Final Status Talks at Camp David Summit

11 July 2000 - 25 July 2000

Undermining the Talks and Preparing for their Failure: The Settlers and the Israeli Army

15 July 2000 - 8 August 2000

US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes

4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

Resumption of Peace Talks; the Clinton "Proposals"

19 December 2000 - 23 December 2000

Israeli Idea of Security Fence (Separation Wall) Begins to Take Shape

26 December 2000 - 3 January 2001

Ariel Sharon Is Elected Prime Minister of Israel; Intifada Casualties Under Ehud Barak

6 February 2001

The Tenet Cease-Fire Plan

11 June 2001 - 20 June 2001

Massive Israeli Invasion: Operation Defensive Shield

28 March 2002 - 10 May 2002

Invasion of Ramallah: The Siege of Arafat's Compound

29 March 2002 - 1 May 2002

Assassination of Qays Udwan in Tubas

Israel Decides to Create Buffer Zones (Separation Wall)

14 April 2002 - 25 April 2002

Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

Amendment No. 35 of Basic Law: The Knesset to Further Facilitate Disqualification of Arab Candidates to Elections

34th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

17 June 2002 - 20 June 2002

Triggered by a Suicide Bombing, Israel Carries Out Operation Determined Path

18 June 2002 - 16 July 2002

Amendment No. 29 of Knesset Members (Immunity, Rights and Duties) Law

SC Res. 1435: Concern over Reoccupation of Arafat's Headquarters in Ramallah and Call for Israeli Withdrawal

24 September 2002

Mahmoud Abbas Forms the Palestinian Government

19 March 2003 - 29 April 2003

Aqaba Summit: Bush, Abdullah, Abbas, and Sharon Meet

Assassination of Ismail Abu Shanab in Gaza City

21 August 2003 - 25 August 2003

The Geneva "Private" Initiative

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Palestinian Peace Gestures

1 December 2003 - 7 January 2004

Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan

12 January 2004 - 2 February 2004

Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan

Bush's Letter to Sharon on the Disengagement Plan

Life Sentence Against Marwan Barghouti

Annual Zionist General Council (WZO) Meets in Jerusalem

Major Construction Plan in Ma'ale Adumim

21 March 2005 - 6 April 2005

Legal Status of the Gaza Strip after the Disengagement: Foreign Territory?

12 September 2005 - 21 September 2005

The Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee Is Established

25 November 2005

Olmert's Separation Plan

5 March 2006 - 9 March 2006

35th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

19 June 2006 - 22 June 2006

Olmert's Convergence Plan Put Aside; Settlement Activity Resumes

18 August 2006 - 21 September 2006

After the July War: Winograd Commission Interim Report

Hamas Seizes Control of Gaza

10 June 2007 - 16 June 2007

Palestinian and Israeli Teams to Prepare Annapolis International Conference

20 September 2007 - 25 November 2007

Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa

4 December 2007

Bush's Statement on Palestinian Statehood, Jerusalem

10 January 2008

Israel Launches Operation Hot Winter in Gaza

28 February 2008 - 3 March 2008

Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans

9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008

To Delink the West Bank from the Gaza Cease-Fire, Israel Escalates in the West Bank

7 July 2008 - 15 July 2008

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in Acre

8 October 2008 - 13 October 2008

Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire

4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008

The War on Gaza (2008-09): Operation Cast Lead/ Battle of al-Furqan

27 December 2008 - 18 January 2009

War on Gaza: Calls for Active Diplomacy

4 January 2009 - 5 January 2009

Binyamin Netanyahu of Likud Forms Israeli Cabinet after Close Election Results

10 February 2009 - 31 March 2009

The New Netanyahu Government Prepares its Position on the Palestinian Issue

31 March 2009 - 5 May 2009

The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Arab Side

21 April 2009 - 28 May 2009

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

18 May 2009 - 1 June 2009

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University on Peace and Security for Israel

US-Israel Disagreement Over the Settlements Freeze

26 June 2009 - 28 July 2009

Israel's Demolition and Eviction Orders Increase in East Jerusalem

2 August 2009 - 9 November 2009

Israel Land Administration Law

Clashes in East Jerusalem over al-Aqsa Mosque

27 September 2009 - 25 October 2009

Clinton's Disturbing Misstep on Settlements

31 October 2009 - 3 November 2009

The Deceptive Settlement Freeze

26 November 2009 - 5 January 2010

The Arab League and the PLO Endorse Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks

3 March 2010 - 7 March 2010

With the Arab League Blessing, Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks Are Launched

22 April 2010 - 20 May 2010

The Mavi Marmara Incident

30 May 2010 - 5 June 2010

36th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

15 June 2010 - 17 June 2010

Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem

21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010

President Obama Meets Netanyahu and Pushes the Palestinians for Direct Talks with Israel

6 July 2010 - 23 August 2010

Amid US Pressure for Direct Talks, Provocative Settlement Measures Continue

29 July 2010 - 15 August 2010

Direct Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Held in Sharm al-Shaykh and Jerusalem

14 September 2010 - 15 September 2010

Israel's Temporary and Partial Settlement Freeze Is not Extended

20 September 2010 - 26 September 2010

Abbas, Backed by the Arab League, Halts Palestinian-Israeli Direct Talks

30 September 2010 - 15 December 2010

The Knesset passes the Law on Disclosure Requirements for Recipients of Support from a Foreign State Entity

The Knesset Passes the "Nakba Law"

The Knesset Passes the "Admissions Committees Law"

US President Barack Obama Gives a Major Speech on the Middle East

19 May 2011 - 22 May 2011

Despite US, European, and Arab Pressure, Abbas Submits a Request for Full UN Membership

12 September 2011 - 23 September 2011

Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest

27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011

Israeli Settlement Activity Continues, Including Through Expulsion

12 December 2011 - 28 December 2011

Israeli-Palestinian “Exploratory Talks” in Amman

3 January 2012 - 25 January 2012

23rd Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad

Israeli Government "Legalizes" Three Jewish Settlement Outposts

22 April 2012 - 24 April 2012

Settlement Consolidation in the West Bank, Including Jerusalem

6 November 2012 - 12 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on the Gaza Strip, Day 1

14 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 2

15 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 4

17 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 7

20 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: A Balance Sheet

22 November 2012

Symbolic Erection of Bab al-Shams and Bab al-Karama villages in the West Bank

11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013

US President Barack Obama Visits Israel and Bethlehem and Ramallah

20 March 2013 - 21 March 2013

24th Arab Summit Meets in Doha

26 March 2013 - 27 March 2013

Arab League Delegation in Washington Discusses the Arab Peace Initiative

Kerry's Shuttle Diplomacy for the Resumption of Talks Intensifies and Apparently Succeeds

23 May 2013 - 19 July 2013

Terms of Talk Resumption as Sponsored by Kerry

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

14 November 2013 - 31 January 2014

Tension Mounts Over Haram al-Sharif Following Israeli Provocations

4 February 2014 - 26 February 2014

Kerry Draws Up a Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

17 February 2014

Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

Egypt's Noncoordinated Cease-Fire Initiative Fails

14 July 2014 - 16 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20

23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 29-31: A 72-Hour Cease-Fire

5 August 2014 - 7 August 2014

Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif

30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014

French Efforts in Favor of a Draft UNSC Resolution on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

2 December 2014 - 17 December 2014

Early Elections Announced in Israel

3 December 2014

Palestinian Leadership Debates End of Security Coordination with Israel

10 December 2014 - 14 December 2014

France and Arab League Consider Resuscitating Securty Council Initiative

15 January 2015 - 29 June 2015

Clashes at Haram al-Sharif

Settlers Set Fire to Two Palestinian Family Homes in Duma, West Bank

31 July 2015 - 9 August 2015

Tension Escalates at Haram al-Sharif

2 August 2015 - 28 September 2015

37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem

20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015

The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba

21 February 2016

The Knesset Adopts the "Anti-Terror" (Counter-Terrorism) Law

Provocative Israeli Decision Related to Haram al-Sharif

26 June 2016 - 5 July 2016

Continued Violation of the Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif

Amendment No. 44 of Basic Law: The Knesset Allows Dismissal of Members

Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

28 December 2016

Settlers Attempt to Modify the Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif

5 February 2017 - 24 May 2017

UNESCWA and the Report on Israeli Apartheid

Israel Names the Palestine National Fund a Terrorist Organization for Assisting Prisoners' Families

Palestinian Popular Response to Israel's Measures over the Haram al-Sharif

16 July 2017 - 23 July 2017

Bezalel Smotrich's "Decisive Plan" for the Complete Land of Israel

7 September 2017

Palestinian Diplomatic Activity after US Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's Capital

6 December 2017 - 20 December 2017

The Arab League Jerusalem Committee Meets to Discuss Trump's Jerusalem Announcement

Assassination Attempt on Muhammad Hamdan in Sidon

14 January 2018 - 29 January 2018

Amendment by the Knesset of Its Code of Ethics to Allow Restricting Palestinian Members' Travel Abroad

22 January 2018 - 13 March 2018

Knesset Passes Law to Deduct Funds from the PA Tax Revenue

2 July 2018 - 3 July 2018

The Knesset Passes Basic Law: Israel the Nation-State of the Jewish People

19 July 2018 - 30 July 2018

Botched Undercover Israeli Operation in Gaza Sparks Exchange of Fire

11 November 2018 - 13 November 2018

Conditions Worsen for Palestinian Prisoners

2 January 2019 - 12 May 2019

Opening of the “Apartheid Road”

10 January 2019

Israel Deducts Funds from the PA’s Tax Revenue

17 February 2019 - 2 May 2019

30th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis

Israel Prevents Palestine Cup Final

3 July 2019 - 25 September 2019

Israeli Government Allows Jewish Visitors to Tour the Haram al-Sharif Compound on Eid al-Adha

11 August 2019 - 18 August 2019

Palestinian Citizens of Israel Protest Israeli Police Inaction in Solving Violent Crimes

28 September 2019 - 5 November 2019

Israel Announces Plans to Double Settler Population in Hebron

1 December 2019

Jerusalem Court Ruling Threatens 700 Palestinians With Eviction

19 January 2020 - 26 January 2020

US Peace Plan – Palestinian and International Reactions

28 January 2020 - 11 February 2020

Israel Uses COVID-19 Against Palestinians

21 March 2020 - 22 September 2020

Cracks in Arab Unity on Palestine

9 September 2020 - 22 September 2020

Murder Rate Among Palestinian Citizens of Israel Remains High Amid Israeli Police Inaction

21 December 2020

Leading Human Rights Groups Deem Israel an Apartheid State

12 January 2021 - 27 April 2021

Jewish National Fund Adopts New Policy to Purchase and Claim Lands in the West Bank

25 February 2021 - 2 September 2021

Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada

10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021

May 2021 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet

Israel Continues to Assert Dominance over the Haram al-Sharif Compound

18 July 2021 - 8 October 2021

Meetings Resume between PA and Israeli Ministers

29 August 2021 - 28 December 2021

Israel Designates Palestinian Rights Organizations as Terrorist Organizations

22 October 2021 - 17 November 2021

Historical Texts

Basel (Zionist) Program

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

Balfour Declaration

2 November 1917

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

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22

10 January 1920

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

Churchill White Paper

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Council of the League of Nations: Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate: Approving the Memorandum by the British Representative

16 September 1922

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

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

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

1 December 1930

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

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

The Murison Commission Report

National Defense Party: Objectives (in Arabic)

2 December 1934

Peel Commission Report

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report

11 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Biltmore Conference Declaration

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

Pact of the League of Arab States

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

UNSC Resolution 43: Calling for an Immediate Truce in Palestine

UNSC Resolution 46

US Recognition of the State of Israel

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine

Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

UNSC Resolution 50

Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties

Jordan-Israel Agreement: For the Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area

UNSC Resolution 54

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Palestinian National Council: Proclamation of the Independence of Palestine

Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account

8 November 1948

UNGA Resolution 212 (III)

19 November 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

Israel Law of Return and its Amendments

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 1950

Prevention of Infiltration (Offences and Jurisdiction) Law 1954 (5714)

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

UNSC Resolution 171

First Arab Summit: Statement

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Basic Law of the PLO

Protocol for the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

11 September 1965

Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

UNGA Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

Fourth Arab Summit: Resolutions

1 September 1967

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestine National (watani) Charter

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

9 December 1969

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Admission of Palestine as Full Member in Arab League (in Arabic)

9 September 1976

Eighth Arab Summit: Statement

25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

Israel-U.S. Working Paper on the Resumption of the Geneva Peace Conference

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

The Regional Committee of the Heads of Arab Local Authorities in Israel Statement On the Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

1 September 1982

Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal

2 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 9

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Cairo Declaration on the PLO and Terrorism as read by PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat

7 November 1985

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1987: Resolutions

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

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

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/160

9 December 1988

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

13 December 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/177

15 December 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

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

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

28 September 1995

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

UNSC Resolution 1073

28 September 1996

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/199

UNGA Resolution 52/250

Statement by the President of the Security Council S/PRST/1998/21

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

President Bill Clinton Proposals for a Final Settlement

23 December 2000

PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement

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

The Mitchell Report

Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire Plan)

The Durban Declaration

8 September 2001

Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

Letter of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

The Quartet (UN, EU, Russia, US) Communiqué on the Situation in the Occupied Territories

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 35

UNSC Resolution 1435

24 September 2002

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Israel and the Road Map

23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/14

12 December 2003

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/508

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/878

10 November 2006

UNGA Resolution ES-10/16

30 November 2006

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

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

10 January 2008

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 39

UNSC Resolution 1860

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

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

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

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

25 September 2009

Mahmoud Abbas's Op-Ed in the New York Times: The Long Overdue Palestinian State

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

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

HRC Resolution S-21/1

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

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

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

Middle East Peace Conference Joint Declaration

15 January 2017

Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017

6 February 2017

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 46

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

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

6 December 2017

Twenty-Ninth Arab Summit (The Jerusalem Summit): Dhahran Declaration

Basic Law: Israel - the Nation-State of the Jewish People

UNGA Resolution 73/5

16 October 2018

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

28 February 2019

30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration

Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates

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

B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

12 January 2021

Historical Media

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

2 November 1932

Palestine and Oil

Arab Higher Committee Members

Land in Jewish Possession (1944)

31 December 1944

Illegal Immigration (I)

Illegal Immigration (II)

Arab League Warnings

King David Hotel

Land in Jewish Possession (1947)

Opening of Seventh Session of the Council of the Arab League

Cairo Street Rejects Palestine Partition

Burning of the Rex Cinema

2 December 1947

Importation of a Military Industry

'Palestine Post' Explosion

1 February 1948

Attack on Jewish Agency Headquarters

Implosion, Killing of the Women, Ninth Wave of Killing

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

III. Late Mandate

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

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

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Palestinian Emigration (I)

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Lebanon War, 1982

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

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

The Israeli Military

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

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

I. Ottoman Rule

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Balata Refugee Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

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

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

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

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

Periods

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

V. Reverberations of the Palestine War

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era

XIII. A Growingly Intractable Deadlock

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Arab Summits and Palestine

1946 - present

Thematic Chronology

British and International Commissions of Inquiry in Mandate Palestine

1919 - 1946