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Biographies

Freih Abu Middein

Mu‘in al-Madi

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

1929 - 2 June 2016

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Hope Simpson Report

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

MacDonald White Paper

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

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

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

UNSC Resolution 271

15 September 1969

Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement

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

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

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

30 November 1977

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

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

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

7 February 1983

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

13 December 1988

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 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

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

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

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

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

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 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

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

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

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

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

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

25 September 2009

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

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

6 February 2017

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

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

Events

The Settlement of Tel ‘Amal Is Founded Overnight in the Baysan Region

10 December 1936

The Knesset Issues Amendment 16 to the Planning and Building Law, 1965

12 February 1981

Egypt Proposes a Ten-Point Plan for Palestinian Elections

1 July 1989 - 30 September 1989

Settlement Activity Around Jerusalem

19 January 1995 - 1 February 1995

Israeli Settlement Activities Amid Attempts to Resume Talks

10 September 1997 - 6 November 1997

Renewed Israeli Settlement Activities and Plans in East Jerusalem

25 May 1998 - 21 June 1998

The Tenet Cease-Fire Plan

11 June 2001 - 20 June 2001

Israel's "Efforts" to Provoke Escalation

4 July 2001 - 14 August 2001

With the Assassination of Abu Hanud, Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation Reaches a New Level

26 November 2001 - 15 December 2001

Israel Decides to Create Buffer Zones (Separation Wall)

14 April 2002 - 25 April 2002

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

Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan

An Egyptian Security Plan for the PA

24 May 2004 - 6 July 2004

July War: Massacre in Qana; 48-Hour Partial Suspension of Air Strikes

30 July 2006 - 2 August 2006

Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa

4 December 2007

Salam Fayyad's Government Issues “Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State” Plan

25 August 2009 - 24 September 2009

The US Shies Away from Its Strong Demands on Israel

19 March 2010 - 30 April 2010

Escalation in Israel's Settlement Activity

26 September 2010 - 8 November 2010

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

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

11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013

For the Third Time, Israel Links the Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion

6 January 2014 - 22 January 2014

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

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

3 February 2015 - 27 March 2015

Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure

27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016

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

Church of the Holy Sepulchre Temporarily Closes in Protest

25 February 2018 - 28 February 2018

Settlement Construction in 2018 Remains High

31 December 2018

Israel Announces Plans to Double Settler Population in Hebron

1 December 2019

Israeli Settlement Construction Continues Unbated in Third Year of Trump Administration

31 December 2019

May 2021 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet

Highlights

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Marka Refugee Camp

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

I. Ottoman Rule

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

The Israeli Military

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

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

The Algerians of Palestine

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

Palestinian Emigration (I)

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era