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The Naqib al-Ashraf Rebellion

1st Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

29 August 1897 - 31 August 1897

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

Palestinians Participate in the Establishment of Arab Nationalist Societies

September 1908 - 1912

Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London

2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922

The Palestine Communist Party Is Officially Announced

Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances

17th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

30 June 1931 - 15 July 1931

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Establishment of the National Defense Party

2 December 1934

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party

Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

British "Divide-and-Rule" Policy

November 1938 - May 1939

MacDonald White Paper of 1939 Is Published

17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939

The Palestine Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Stern Gang Calls for Alliance with Axis

Zionist Biltmore Conference Is Held in New York

6 May 1942 - 11 May 1942

British Recommend Partition

The US Congress Endorses the Biltmore Program in Joint Resolution

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

13 November 1945

Palestinians Declare Strike to Protest Bevin's Policy Statement of November 1945

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

January 1949 - December 1956

23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951

UNGA 513 (VI): UNRWA to Carry Refugee Relief and Reintegration for 3 Years

26 January 1952

The Egyptian Revolution of 1952

After Mounting Egyptian-Israel Tension Around Gaza, a Turning Point for Egypt and Opportunities for Israel

28 February 1955 - 3 April 1955

Soviet Union Threatens Intervention

5 November 1956

Israel Land Administration Law, 5720-1960

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

Naturalization in Lebanon and the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

Israeli-Syrian Aerial Battle

7 April 1967 - 21 April 1967

US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Principles for Peace in the Middle East

27th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

9 June 1968 - 19 June 1968

Fatah Defines its Political Objective

19 October 1968

Israeli Travel Documents for Palestinians in West Bank

10 December 1972

Shaykh Ahmad Yasin's Islamic Center Is Established in Gaza

7 September 1973

12th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

1 June 1974 - 8 June 1974

Palestinian Rejection Front

10 October 1974

UNGA 3376 (XXX): Establishing a Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People

10 November 1975

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

13th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

President Carter for a Palestinian Homeland

16 March 1977 - 26 May 1977

Municipalities in the West Bank and Gaza Affirm the PLO Program in a Message to the US and USSR

14th Palestine National Council Is Held in Damascus

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

SC Res. 446: Establishing a Commission to Examine the Situation Relating to Settlements in the Occupied Territories

SC Res. 465: Calling on Israel to Dismantle Settlements and Cease Constructing, Planning New Ones

Venice Declaration

30th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

7 December 1982 - 16 December 1982

Iron Fist Policy in the Occupied Territories

29 July 1985 - 4 August 1985

Fatah-DFLP-PCP Reconciliation: The Prague Declaration

6 September 1986

SC Res. 605: Deploring Israeli Violent Repression of Palestinian Intifada

22 December 1987

The Palestinians' 14 Demands

14 January 1988

Israel's Policy of "Beating"

19 January 1988 - 27 January 1988

Draft Security Council Resolutions S/19466, S/19780, S/20463, S/20677, and S/20945/Rev.1

1 February 1988 - 7 November 1989

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Baghdad

28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990

Draft SC S/21326 to Dispatch a SC Commission to Palestinian Territory to Recommend Ways of Protecting Civilians Vetoed by US

Statement S/22027 by SC President on Palestinian Legitimate Political Rights and International Conference

20 December 1990

Secretary Baker First Stage Diplomacy

9 March 1991 - 22 May 1991

20th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers

23 September 1991 - 28 September 1991

Madrid Conference

30 October 1991 - 2 November 1991

PLO-Israel Protocol on Economic Relations Is Signed in Paris

Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty Signed near Aqaba

26 October 1994

US Congress Passes the "Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995"

23 October 1995 - 8 November 1995

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

27 April 1999 - 29 April 1999

Sharm al-Shaykh Summit

16 October 2000 - 18 October 2000

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes Abate

23 December 2000 - 6 February 2001

Lebanon's Constitutional Council Upholds the Prohibition of Real Estate Acquisition by Palestinian Refugees

Assassination of Ahmad Marshud in Nablus

15 October 2001

Another Timid Return to Diplomacy: a Peres-Qurai' Draft?

16 December 2001 - 27 December 2001

Birth of the Middle East "Quartet"

George W. Bush's Major Speech on US Policy for the Middle East

Draft SC Res. S/2002/1385 Demanding Israel's Compliance with 4th Geneva Convention Vetoed by US

20 December 2002

Heightened Violence Despite Diplomacy

1 May 2003 - 29 June 2003

Sharon's Speech on Unilateral Disengagement Plan

18 December 2003

Annual Zionist General Council (WZO) Meets in Jerusalem

Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination

15 February 2005 - 30 April 2005

Pressure on Palestinians; Gaza on the Brink of a Humanitarian Crisis

1 March 2006 - 25 April 2006

Formation of the Hamas-Led Cabinet

19 March 2006 - 28 March 2006

Israel Launches Operation Southern Arrow

30 March 2006 - 14 May 2006

Israel’s Campaign Against Non-ID Holders in the West Bank

1 April 2006 - 6 September 2006

The Prisoners' Initiative: National Conciliation Document

10 May 2006 - 13 May 2006

Israeli Operations in the West Bank

24 May 2006 - 22 June 2006

Palestinian Factions Agree on the National Conciliation Document

Lebanon Reregisters the Records of Palestinian Refugees It Had Deleted

Intra-Palestinian Dynamics: The False Hopes of National Unity Talks

25 August 2006 - 23 September 2006

Israel's Operation Summer Rains Enters its 4th Month

1 October 2006 - 31 October 2006

Formation of the Palestinian Unity Government

15 March 2007 - 17 March 2007

Reactions to West Bank-Gaza Strip Split

17 June 2007 - 20 June 2007

Bush's Policy Speech and Call for an International Conference

Both Authorities in West Bank and Gaza Reorganize Security Forces

2 November 2007 - 4 December 2007

Effects of the Siege of Gaza on Private Sector Production

9 December 2007 - 9 January 2008

A Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Damascus

23 January 2008 - 25 January 2008

Israeli Supreme Court Endorses Economic Sanction Against Gaza

30 January 2008

Hamas and Israel Agree on a Six-Month Gaza Cease-Fire; Blockade Marginally Eased

17 June 2008 - 4 November 2008

Seal on Gaza Borders Tightened

5 November 2008 - 29 November 2008

Western Powers Adopt a Program of Action Against Weapons Smuggling into Gaza

The New Netanyahu Government Prepares its Position on the Palestinian Issue

31 March 2009 - 5 May 2009

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

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

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

Fayyad's Speech at Al-Quds University on Setting the Goal for Statehood in Two Years

Fatah Sixth General Conference Is Held in Bethlehem

4 August 2009 - 8 August 2009

US Offers Ambiguous Assurances to the Palestinians

20 April 2010 - 21 April 2010

US Makes Incredible Offer to Israel in Exchange for a Two-Month Partial Settlement Freeze

29 September 2010 - 12 December 2010

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

Formation of the Palestinian Unity Government

The 2014 Gaza War: Toward an Open-Ended Cease-Fire

23 August 2014 - 26 August 2014

Palestinian Leadership Debates End of Security Coordination with Israel

10 December 2014 - 14 December 2014

Palestinian Militants Build and Rebuild “Gate of Jerusalem” Tent Camp in Abu Dis

3 February 2015 - 27 March 2015

UNHRC Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Israel's Policy Toward the Palestinian Outburst

4 October 2015 - 13 October 2015

37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem

20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015

Netanyahu Reaffirms Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif; Cameras at Haram al-Sharif?

22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015

EU Guidelines on Goods from the Occupied Territories

11 November 2015

Israel Pursues its Confiscation of Palestinian Land in the West Bank

10 March 2016 - 21 April 2016

Provocative Israeli Decision Related to Haram al-Sharif

26 June 2016 - 5 July 2016

The Knesset adopts the NGO “Funding Transparency” Law

Fatah’s 7th General Conference

29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016

Assassination of Muhammad Zuwari in Sfax

15 December 2016

Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad Meets in Istanbul

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

Israel's State Comptroller Publishes Report on Gaza 2014 War

28 February 2017

UNESCWA and the Report on Israeli Apartheid

UN SG Antonio Guterres Distances Himself from ESCWA Report; Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf Resigns

16 March 2017 - 17 March 2017

The Knesset Adopts Amendment No. 116 to the Planning and Building Law (Kaminitz Law)

Hamas New Charter

International Response to Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters

30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018

PA Asks the ICC to Investigate Israeli Settlement Policies

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

18 October 2018

Israeli PM Netanyahu Pledges to Annex Parts of the West Bank if Reelected

10 September 2019 - 6 December 2019

Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Shaykh Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

1885 - 19 December 1953

Mu‘in al-Madi

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

George Antonius

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

1929 - 2 June 2016

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

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Historical Texts

Basel (Zionist) Program

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

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

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

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

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

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

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

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on the Occasion of the Entry of the Arab Armies in Palestine

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

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

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

UNGA Resolution 212 (III)

19 November 1948

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

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

12 September 1950

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 1950

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

UNGA Resolution 513 (VI)

26 January 1952

UNRWA-Egypt Agreement on Economic and Engineering Surveys

Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

UNGA Resolution 1604 (XV)

First Arab Summit: Statement

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Basic Law of the PLO

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

UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)

10 December 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

UNGA Resolution 2649 (XXV)

30 November 1970

UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)

8 December 1970

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

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

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

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Memorandum of Agreement between the U.S. and Israel Regarding the Reconvening of the Geneva Conference

1 September 1975

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3379 (XXX)

10 November 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

Draft of UNSC Resolution 12022

Eighth Arab Summit: Statement

25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

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

30 November 1977

Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)

17 September 1978

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

UNSC Resolution 446

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 January 1980

UNSC Resolution 465

Sadat’s Letter to Begin Following Israel’s Enactment of Basic Law on Jerusalem

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14832/Rev.1

19 January 1982

1 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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15895

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

Secretary-General Report A/39/130 - S/16409

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

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

7 November 1985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17769

29 January 1986

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1987: Resolutions

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

UNSC Resolution 605

22 December 1987

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780

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

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

13 December 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20463

17 February 1989

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20945/Rev.1

6 November 1989

Draft of UNSC Resolution 21326

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians

18 October 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)

13 September 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

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip

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

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

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

The Durban Declaration

8 September 2001

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2002/1385

20 December 2002

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

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

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

Statement by Middle East Quartet on the Palestinian Legislative Elections

30 January 2006

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

National Conciliation Document

UNGA Resolution ES-10/17

24 January 2007

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

UNSC Resolution 1850

16 December 2008

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

16 January 2009

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

Fatah Sixth General Conference: Political Program (in Arabic)

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

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

25 September 2009

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

Statement by Middle East Quartet

23 September 2011

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2014/916

30 December 2014

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

Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

Middle East Peace initiative: Joint Communiqué

Report of the Middle East Quartet

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Middle East Peace Conference Joint Declaration

15 January 2017

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons

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

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

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

1 November 2017

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

26 December 2018

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

28 February 2019

Historical Media

Palestine Women and High Commissioner

General Strike in Jerusalem 1929

Women in front of High Commissioner Residency

29 October 1929

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

World Zionist Organization Congresses

1897 - present

Thematic Chronology

Israel's Policy Towards Jerusalem

1947 - present

Thematic Chronology

Lebanon’s Policies on Palestine and Palestinians

1944 - present

Highlights

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Kafr Qasim, 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinian Communist Movement

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

The Israeli Military

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

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

II. Early Mandate

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

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

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

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

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

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

XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Israel's Nation-State Law

Enshrining Discrimination

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

Palestinian Emigration (I)

I. Ottoman Rule

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

III. Late Mandate

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

Balata Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Al-Fawwar Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Marka Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Balfour Declaration

Promising Palestine Away

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice