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Nakhla Zurayq
1859 - 21 July 1921
Biography
Ali al-Rimawi
1860 - 1919
Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi
1864 - 6 August 1913
Biography
Jurji Habib Hanania
1864 - 1920
Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - October 1930
Biography
Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi
1871 - 1942
Biography
Khalil al-Sakakini
23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Boulos Shehadeh
1882 - 1 August 1943
Biography
Tawfiq Canaan
24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza
21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984
Biography
Rafiq al-Tamimi
1889 - 1957
Biography
George Antonius
1891 - 1942
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Karimeh Abbud
1893 - 27 April 1940
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini
1895 - 4 July 1974
Biography
Musa Nasir
4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971
Biography
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi
1896 - 27 September 1951
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Mustafa al-Dabbagh
1897 - 1 October 1989
Biography
Anbara Salam Khalidi
4 August 1897 - 1986
Biography
Matiel Mogannam
15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992
Biography
Sadhij Nassar
1900 - 1970
Biography
Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari
1900 - 29 May 1980
Biography
Ibrahim Tuqan
1905 - 2 May 1941
Biography
Asma Tubi
1905 - 1983
Biography
Sophie Halaby
26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997
Biography
Nicola Ziadeh
1907 - 27 July 2006
Biography
Badr Lama
23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Biography
Qudsia Khourshid
5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009
Biography
Anwar Nuseibeh
1913 - 1986
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Fadwa Tuqan
1917 - 12 December 2003
Biography
Haydar Abd al-Shafi
10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007
Biography
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994
Biography
Emile Habibi
29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996
Biography
Fatima al-Budeiri
1923 - June 2009
Biography
Yusra al-Barbari
15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009
Biography
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023
Biography
George Habash
1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008
Biography
Issam Abd al-Hadi
1928 - 8 August 2013
Biography
Samira Abu Ghazaleh
1928 - 12 January 2017
Biography
Antoine Zahlan
1928 - 1 September 2020
Biography
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2 June 2016
Biography
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Bassam Shak’a
1930 - 22 July 2019
Biography
Bashir Barghouti
1931 - 9 September 2000
Biography
Anis Abdullah Sayigh
3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009
Biography
Shafiq al-Hout
13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Edward W. Said
1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003
Biography
Ezzedine Kalak
1936 - 3 August 1978
Biography
Naji al-Ali
1936 - 29 August 1987
Biography
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
1937
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013
Biography
Samih al-Qasim
1939 - 19 August 2014
Biography
Faisal al-Husseini
17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001
Biography
May Sayegh
1941 - 5 February 2023
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah
12 October 1943
Biography
François Abou Salem
16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011
Biography
Dalal al-Mughrabi
29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978
Biography
Ismail Haniyeh
1962 - 31 July 2024
Biography
Khalida Jarrar
9 February 1963
Biography
Tawfiq Ibrahim
- 1966
Charts
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Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Growth
1860 - 1948
Events
Event
Ottoman Education Law Is Passed
20 September 1869
Event
First Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine
1882 - 1903
Event
Palestinian Peasants in Tiberias Score a Rare Success Against Zionist Land Acquisition
8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901
Event
France and the Ottoman Empire Sign the Mytilene Agreements
2 November 1901 - 10 November 1901
Event
7th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
27 July 1905 - 2 August 1905
Event
Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley
March 1909 - July 1909
Event
Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo
December 1912
Event
Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant
21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916
Event
The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant
10 January 1920
Event
May Day Clashes in Jaffa
1 May 1921 - 7 May 1921
Event
Palestine Gendarmerie Is Established
1 July 1921 - 24 April 1922
Event
The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London
2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922
Event
16th Zionist Congress Is Held in Zurich
28 July 1929 - 11 August 1929
Event
1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
26 October 1929
Event
Hanging of Palestinian Militants
17 June 1930
Event
Pan-Islamic Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
7 December 1931 - 17 December 1931
Event
Military Recruitment in Palestine
3 September 1939
Event
Land Transfers Regulations
20 February 1940
Event
British Labour Party Favors Transfer of Palestinians
May 1944
Event
Labor Victory in Great Britain
26 July 1945
Event
Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism
1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945
Event
Anglo-American Conference Meets in London and Proposes the Morrison-Grady Federal Plan
24 July 1946
Event
Palestinian Attacks
14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948
Event
Palestinian Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
Massacre in Deir Yasin
9 April 1948 - 11 April 1948
Event
Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa
24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948
Event
Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area
8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948
Event
End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem
8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948
Event
Israel's Provisional Council Enacts Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance
23 September 1948
Event
Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis
30 January 1949
Event
The UNGA Ad Hoc Political Committee, Dealing with Israel's Admission Application, Requests Clarifications
4 May 1949 - 9 May 1949
Event
Palestinians in Israel Protest the Nationality law
14 July 1952
Event
Egypt-UNRWA Agreement on Plans for Refugee Resettlement Projects
30 June 1953
Event
Renewal of Egyptian-Israeli Clashes
22 August 1955 - 4 September 1955
Event
Israel Occupies Gaza
1 November 1956 - 7 March 1957
Event
Civil War in Lebanon
May 1958 - October 1958
Event
Arab States Protest Jewish Immigration
11 May 1959
Event
Israeli and Arab Responses to Joseph Johnson's Proposals
5 October 1962 - 17 October 1962
Event
Second Palestinian Exodus
10 June 1967 - 31 December 1967
Event
Israel Razes Maghribi Quarter in Jerusalem Old City and Expels its Inhabitants
11 June 1967
Event
Israel Conducts a Census of Palestinians in East-Jerusalem
27 September 1967
Event
First Communiqué of Fatah to the World Press in English and Arabic
January 1968
Event
Israel Land Requisition in Old City of Jerusalem
18 April 1968
Event
Israel Strengthens its Control over East Jerusalem
27 April 1969 - 26 June 1969
Event
PLO-Lebanon Cairo Agreement Regulates Palestinian Civil and Military Presence in the Country
3 November 1969
Event
Jordanian-Palestinian Clashes
11 February 1970
Event
9th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo
7 July 1971 - 13 July 1971
Event
UNGA 2792 (XXVI): Deploring Israel's Operations in the Gaza Strip
6 December 1971
Event
Municipal Elections Are Held in the West Bank
28 March 1972 - 2 May 1972
Event
Violent Israeli Retaliation in South Lebanon
16 September 1972 - 17 September 1972
Event
Mohammad Boudia Assassinated in Paris
28 June 1973
Event
October War, 5th Day
10 October 1973
Event
Israeli Advance Continues and an International Nuclear Crisis Looms
23 October 1973 - 27 October 1973
Event
UNGA Res. ES/9-1: Adopts Content of Vetoed Draft SC Res. on Israeli Golan Measures
5 February 1982
Event
Israeli Invasion Along the Western Axis
6 June 1982 - 14 June 1982
Event
Palestinians in the Occupied Territories Oppose Reactivating the Jordanian Parliament
23 January 1984
Event
Assassination of Zafir al-Masri
2 March 1986 - 3 March 1986
Event
ICJ on US Treaty Obligations and the US Position on the PLO Office in New York
9 March 1988 - 11 March 1988
Event
Israel Proposes Elections in the West Bank and Gaza
30 March 1989
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit in Baghdad
28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990
Event
Dial 1-202-456-1414
13 June 1990
Event
The Knesset Enacts the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty
17 March 1992
Event
7th Negotiation Round, Washington
21 October 1992 - 20 November 1992
Event
Palestinian Police Shoot on Demonstrators in Gaza
18 November 1994 - 23 November 1994
Event
Israel Launches Operation Grapes of Wrath Against Lebanon
11 April 1996 - 26 April 1996
Event
Ambiguous and Weakened Assurances on Further Redeployment
16 January 1997
Event
French-Palestinian Agreement on Status of French Institutions Under Palestinian Authority
12 December 1997 - 18 December 1997
Event
Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal for a Cease-Fire and a Resumption of Talks
16 April 2001 - 27 April 2001
Event
First Assassination Attempt of Mohammed Deif and Adnan al-Ghul in Gaza City
22 August 2001
Event
Israeli and International Pressures for a PA Reform
7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002
Event
Toward a "Road Map" to Final Status?
13 August 2002 - 5 November 2002
Event
Second Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City
26 September 2002
Event
Assassination Attempt of Hamas Leadership, Including Ahmad Yasin, in Gaza City
6 September 2003
Event
Ahmad Qurai' Is Appointed PM: A Nine-Week Ministerial Crisis
7 September 2003 - 12 November 2003
Event
Arafat's Sudden Illness and Death
12 October 2004 - 12 November 2004
Event
Assassination of Adnan al-Ghul in Gaza City
21 October 2004
Event
Palestinian Truce Commitment at Risk
18 June 2005 - 21 July 2005
Event
Operation Blue Skies and Continuing Escalation
22 December 2005 - 23 January 2006
Event
Israeli Operations Resume
3 February 2006 - 11 February 2006
Event
Assassination of Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, Mohammed Abdul Hadi, Mohammad Abu al-Husain, Hassan Abu al-Husain, Huthaifa Shubair, and Mohammed Sami Hamdan in Khan Yunis
8 April 2006
Event
Assassination of Mohammed Shaban al-Dahdouh in Gaza City
20 May 2006
Event
Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains
28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006
Event
Fourth Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City
12 July 2006
Event
Major Israeli Operation in Nablus
19 July 2006 - 21 July 2006
Event
July War: Israel Attempts to Establish a Limited Foothold in Southern Lebanon
19 July 2006 - 29 July 2006
Event
The Battle of Nahr el-Bared
20 May 2007 - 2 September 2007
Event
War on Gaza, Day 14
9 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 15: Intensification of Israeli Attacks
10 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 19: Hamas Cease-Fire Offer
14 January 2009
Event
Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World
4 June 2009
Event
Abbas, Backed by the Arab League, Halts Palestinian-Israeli Direct Talks
30 September 2010 - 15 December 2010
Event
Al Jazeera Satellite TV and the Guardian Release the Palestine Papers
23 January 2011
Event
Report of the Panel of Inquiry on the Mavi Marmara Incident (Palmer Commission)
2 September 2011
Event
A Prisoner Swap Deal Between Hamas and Israel
11 October 2011
Event
Sensing an Insurmountable Deadlock, Abbas Sends a Letter to Netanyahu
17 April 2012
Event
Another Spate of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in Gaza
17 June 2012 - 23 June 2012
Event
Mohamed Morsi, President of Egypt
30 June 2012
Event
Dangerous Surge of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in and across Gaza
14 October 2012 - 13 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on the Gaza Strip, Day 1
14 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza
14 November 2012 - 22 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 4
17 November 2012
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: Cease-Fire Evening Announcement
21 November 2012
Event
Surge in Settlement Expansion
30 November 2012 - 10 February 2013
Event
Mohamed Morsi, President of Egypt, Is Ousted by the Military
3 July 2013
Event
Terms of Talk Resumption as Sponsored by Kerry
28 July 2013
Event
Israeli-Palestinian Direct Talks Take Place in Jerusalem
14 August 2013 - 2 September 2013
Event
Aim of Talks Is No Longer a Comprehensive Agreement but a Framework Agreement
14 November 2013 - 31 January 2014
Event
Trilateral Agreement for a Red Sea-Dead Sea Link
9 December 2013
Event
Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations
15 March 2014
Event
Muhammad Abu Khdeir, a 16-Year-Old Palestinian, Is Burnt Alive by Settlers in East Jerusalem
2 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3
10 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 43
19 August 2014
Event
Fifth Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City
19 August 2014
Event
Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Addresses the 2014 Gaza War
17 December 2014
Event
Reports About Indirect Israel-Hamas Talks on Long-Term Cease-Fire
16 June 2015 - 16 June 2015
Event
Three Rounds of Hamas-Fatah Talks in Doha Come to Naught
7 February 2016 - 18 June 2016
Event
Assassination of Muhammad Zuwari in Sfax
15 December 2016
Event
Paris Conference for Peace in the Middle East
15 January 2017 - 16 January 2017
Event
Israel's State Comptroller Publishes Report on Gaza 2014 War
28 February 2017
Event
UN SG Antonio Guterres Distances Himself from ESCWA Report; Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf Resigns
16 March 2017 - 17 March 2017
Event
Gaza and the Electricity Issue
27 April 2017 - 1 August 2017
Event
Trump's Aides Seem Ready to Embark on Devising a Peace Plan
24 August 2017
Event
US President Trump Declares Jerusalem “Off the Table”
25 January 2018
Event
Talks for a Long-Term Gaza Cease-Fire
7 August 2018 - 10 November 2018
Event
Settlement Construction in 2018 Remains High
31 December 2018
Event
Hamdallah Resigns, Is Replaced by Mohammad Shtayyeh
29 January 2019 - 13 April 2019
Event
Israel Deducts Funds from the PA’s Tax Revenue
17 February 2019 - 2 May 2019
Event
US Blocks UNSC Statement Condemning Sur Bahir Demolitions
24 July 2019
Event
Israeli PM Netanyahu Pledges to Annex Parts of the West Bank if Reelected
10 September 2019 - 6 December 2019
Event
Israel's Supreme Court Annuls a 2017 Law Regularizing Settlements Retroactively
9 June 2020
Event
Morocco Normalizes Relations with Israel in Exchange for US Recognition of Western Sahara as Part of Morocco
10 December 2020 - 14 December 2020
Event
ICC Rules that it has Jurisdiction in Occupied Palestinian Territories; Investigation Announced
5 February 2021 - 2 April 2021
Event
Hightened Tension over Attempts to Evict Palestinian Families from Sheikh Jarrah
15 February 2021 - 9 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 1
10 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 12
21 May 2021
Event
Gilboa Prison Escape
6 September 2021 - 21 May 2022
Event
Elections for Village Councils in the West Bank
11 December 2021
Historical Texts
Document
Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
Document
Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein
25 October 1915
Document
Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
28 August 1919
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
Document
Churchill White Paper
3 June 1922
Document
Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem
19 November 1928
Document
Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929
12 March 1930
Document
Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
Proposed New Constitution for Palestine
22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935
Document
Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937
Document
Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Document
Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report
9 November 1938
Document
London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
Document
MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
Document
Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
20 April 1946
Document
UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Document
UNSC Resolution 46
17 April 1948
Document
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
14 May 1948
Document
Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine
15 May 1948
Document
Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine
15 May 1948
Document
UNSC Resolution 50
29 May 1948
Document
Abandoned Areas Ordinance
24 June 1948
Document
UNSC Resolution 54
15 July 1948
Document
Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account
8 November 1948
Document
Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement
24 February 1949
Document
Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement
3 April 1949
Document
Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre
14 June 1949
Document
Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement
20 July 1949
Document
Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950
14 March 1950
Document
Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Egypt And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
12 September 1950
Document
UNGA Resolution 393 (V)
2 December 1950
Document
Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA
26 November 1954
Document
Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA
15 December 1956
Document
Palestine National (qawmi) Charter
28 May 1964
Document
Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA
14 June 1967
Document
Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release
1 January 1968
Document
Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions
10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968
Document
Palestine National (watani) Charter
10 July 1968
Document
UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)
19 December 1968
Document
Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement
4 February 1969
Document
Cairo Agreement between the Lebanese Authorities and the Palestinian Guerrilla Organizations
3 November 1969
Document
Rogers Plan
9 December 1969
Document
UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)
10 December 1969
Document
UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)
8 December 1970
Document
UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)
6 December 1971
Document
Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement
15 March 1972
Document
Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program
10 April 1972
Document
Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory
15 August 1973
Document
Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions
28 November 1973
Document
Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement
28 November 1973
Document
Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt
18 January 1974
Document
Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria
31 May 1974
Document
Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 11898
5 December 1975
Document
The Koenig Memorandum
1 March 1976
Document
Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset
20 November 1977
Document
Begin's Autonomy Plan
28 December 1977
Document
Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)
17 September 1978
Document
Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme
15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979
Document
Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt
26 March 1979
Document
Joint Letter from President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin to President Carter Concerning Negotiations on Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
26 March 1979
Document
Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
28 January 1980
Document
Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza
31 January 1982
Document
Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut
20 August 1982
Document
Reagan Plan
1 September 1982
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué
7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985
Document
Secretary of State George Shultz: A Statement for Palestinians
26 February 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/230
23 March 1988
Document
Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
Document
Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué
15 November 1988
Document
Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
Document
Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question
23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677
8 June 1989
Document
President George Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress on the Middle East
6 March 1991
Document
Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference
1 June 1991
Document
U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel
18 October 1991
Document
Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference
31 October 1991
Document
Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)
13 September 1993
Document
Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations
29 April 1994
Document
Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area
4 May 1994
Document
Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
28 September 1995
Document
Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
5 October 1995
Document
UNSC Resolution 1073
28 September 1996
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/199
7 March 1997
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/2
25 April 1997
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/3
15 July 1997
Document
UNGA Resolution 52/250
13 July 1998
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/6
9 February 1999
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/7
20 October 2000
Document
PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement
1 January 2001
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
The Durban Declaration
8 September 2001
Document
UNSC Resolution 1397
12 March 2002
Document
The Quartet (UN, EU, Russia, US) Communiqué on the Situation in the Occupied Territories
10 April 2002
Document
President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East
24 June 2002
Document
Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law
18 March 2003
Document
Israel and the Road Map
23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003
Document
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles
14 April 2004
Document
Palestinian Parties and Factions Code of Conduct during the Legislative Electoral Process
17 October 2005
Document
Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council
27 March 2006
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/878
10 November 2006
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/16
30 November 2006
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/17
24 January 2007
Document
Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry
30 January 2008
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-18
23 January 2009
Document
Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council
4 May 2009
Document
President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World
4 June 2009
Document
Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University
14 June 2009
Document
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years
22 June 2009
Document
Fatah Sixth General Conference: Five Points of Clarification on Political Program
8 August 2009
Document
Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
Document
UNGA Resolution 67/19
29 November 2012
Document
Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Declaration
17 December 2014
Document
Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War
27 April 2015
Document
Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
Document
Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA
30 September 2015
Document
Report of the Middle East Quartet
1 July 2016
Document
Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
Document
Middle East Peace Conference Joint Declaration
15 January 2017
Document
Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017
6 February 2017
Document
UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid
15 March 2017
Document
Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons
17 April 2017
Document
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies
1 May 2017
Document
Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon
20 July 2017
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019
Document
30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration
31 March 2019
Document
Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Press Remarks On Israeli Settlements
18 November 2019
Document
Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates
13 August 2020
Document
B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
12 January 2021
Historical Media
Document
British Soldiers Enforce a Daytime Curfew on Lydda
April 1936
Document
Land Transfers Regulations - Zones A & B
1 March 1940
Document
Arab League Warnings
June 1946
Document
Mahane Yehuda Explosion
22 November 1968
Document
Escape of the Youth, Sixth Wave of Killing
2012
Highlights
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Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967
The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”
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Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
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Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
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Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
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Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity
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Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
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Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
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Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip
A Site of Continual Displacement
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The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
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The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party
1948-present
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Palestinian Informal Justice
Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism
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Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
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The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
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Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
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IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
1987-1993
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XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?
2017-
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Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
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Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
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UNRWA's Education System
A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking
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Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
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The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
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World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
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Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005
Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank
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Demography and the Palestine Question (I)
1850s-1948
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IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
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UNRWA
From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity
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The Education of Palestinians in Israel
Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization
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The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)
1957-1990
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V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1950-1966
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Camp David Accords, 1978-1979
Shattering the Arab Front
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Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
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The Separation Wall
Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians
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Israel’s Apartheid Regime
Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians
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Palestinian Embroidery
A Rich and Diverse National Heritage
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Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967
The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space
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The Judaization of the Galilee
A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity
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The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
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The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
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Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community
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Palestinian Emigration (II)
1967-present
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Lebanon War, 1982
A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'
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Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968
A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance
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Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956
Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens
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Land Day, 30 March 1976
A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel
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The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
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Palestine Liberation Organization (I)
The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement
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The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara
2002-present
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The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)
After the Nakba
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Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine
The Emergence of a Working Class
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Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse
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The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse
A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism
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Nablus Soap Production
The Decline of an Ancient Heritage
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The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba
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The Israeli Military
The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”
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The Palestinians in Chile
A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine
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Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Jaramana Refugee Camp
Syria
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Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp
Syria
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Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp
Syria
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Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
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I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
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The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives
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Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
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Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Demography and the Palestine Question (II)
1948-2048
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Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp
Jordan
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The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)
1990-present
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Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939
A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression
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Palestinian Visual Arts (II)
Pathfinders (1955-1965)
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Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018
Enshrining Discrimination
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The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
1980–present
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The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
1987–present
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Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
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Marka Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982
A Massacre by Proxy
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Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
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The Palestinians in Peru
A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History
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The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps
Perpetuating the Temporary
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China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
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The European Union and the Palestine Question
From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions
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Balata Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Baqa‘a Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Fawwar Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp
Syria
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Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Sbeineh Refugee Camp
Syria
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Mar Elias Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Talbieh Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Rashidiyya Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
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Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”
Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History
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Mexico and the Palestine Question
Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor
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The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
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Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Syria
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Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Spain and the Palestine Question
Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel
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Palestinians in Germany
From Melancholia to Anger
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The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991
Between Ideology and Realism
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Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
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Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank
Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda
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The Palestinian Poster
Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols
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Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
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The May 2021 Gaza War
Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes
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The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
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The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
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Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
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Dera‘a Refugee Camp
Syria
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The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw
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XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks
2006-2017
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Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails
Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance
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The Algerians of Palestine
1830-1948
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The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
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The New South Africa and the Palestine Question
From Good Offices to Total Support
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Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
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The Palestinians in Sweden
Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses
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Palestinian Labor in Israel
A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests
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Palestinian Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
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The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948
The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station
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Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art
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Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza
2012
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Military Operations and Zionist Ethnic Cleansing
1946 - 1949
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