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Biographies

Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947

Events

Event
10th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
9 August 1911 - 15 August 1911
Event
Arrival in Palestine of the Zionist Commission
April 1918
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12th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)
1 September 1921 - 14 September 1921
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Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society
21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930
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MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann
13 February 1931
Event
17th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
30 June 1931 - 15 July 1931
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19th Zionist Congress Meets in Lucerne
20 August 1935 - 4 September 1935
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Organized Irgun and Lehi Anti-British Attacks
24 November 1945 - 19 January 1946
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US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition
18 March 1948 - 30 March 1948
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Israel Strengthens Its Political Control over Jerusalem; Military Government Dissolved
20 December 1948 - 17 February 1949
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Israel's Measures to Make Jerusalem Its Capital
23 January 1950 - 13 July 1953
Event
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Maps the Shape of the Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Solution
5 October 1995
Event
Palestinian-Israeli Confrontation Escalates
20 August 2001 - 10 September 2001
Event
Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains
28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006
Event
Palestinians in Jaffa Protest Eviction Plans of Israel Land Administration
27 April 2007
Event
Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans
9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008
Event
Israel's Ramat Shlomo Constructions' Plan During Joe Biden's Visit
8 March 2010 - 11 March 2010
Event
Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest
27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011
Event
Israeli Settlement Activity Continues, Including Through Expulsion
12 December 2011 - 28 December 2011
Event
For the Third Time, Israel Links the Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion
6 January 2014 - 22 January 2014
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Renewal of Settlement Activity
31 August 2014 - 24 December 2014
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Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure
27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016
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Israel Announces Massive Settlement Expansion after Normalization Deals
14 October 2020 - 15 December 2020

Historical Texts

Document
MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann
13 February 1931
Document
Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance
19 May 1948
Document
Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950
14 March 1950
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
5 October 1995
Document
The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document
31 October 1995
Document
The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)
27 January 2001
Document
Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
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Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019

Highlights

Highlight
The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
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Jerusalem
Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City
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Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
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The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
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The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
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The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw
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World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
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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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Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
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Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba