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Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1880 - 16 June 1946

1882 - 22 April 1942

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1894 - 19 March 1949

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

1902 - 27 August 1984

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Events

Balfour Declaration Is Made

2 November 1917

House of Lords and House of Commons Conflicting Views on Palestine

20 June 1922 - 4 July 1922

Anti-Balfour Demonstrations in Palestine

25 March 1925 - 1 April 1925

John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

13 February 1931

First Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 23 July 1937

Appointment of the Peel Commission

Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

General Strike Called Off; Consent to Appear before the Peel Commission

11 October 1936

Peel Commission Investigates the Cause of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

11 November 1936 - 24 January 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

20th Zionist Congress Meets in Zürich

3 August 1937 - 16 August 1937

Arab National Congress Convenes in Bludan

8 September 1937 - 9 September 1937

Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission

Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee

Third Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

October 1938 - September 1939

Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published

9 November 1938

Stern Gang Assassinates Lord Moyne in Cairo

6 November 1944

Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement

5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946

100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration

1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017

Historical Texts

Balfour Declaration

2 November 1917

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

Palin Commission Report

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

Peel Commission Report

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

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

11 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

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

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

President Donald Trump: Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel

Historical Media

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

2 November 1932

Lord Peel in Front of King David Hotel

Peel Commission and Partition

11 November 1936

Arab Revolt 1936 - Royal Commission

11 January 1937

Arab Revolt 1936 - Arab Higher Committee

12 January 1937

Peel Commission Proposes Partition Map

London Conference

Highlights

The Palestine Communist Party

III. Late Mandate

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

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans