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Biographies

1860 - 13 April 1930

Raghib al-Nashashibi

George Antonius

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

1927 - 13 January 2005

1942 - 6 August 2019

Events

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Territorial Issues and Prelude to the Arab Revolt Against the Ottomans

14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916

The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces

23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916

Start of the Arab Revolt Against the Ottomans

Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration

1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

26 October 1929

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

Hope Simpson Report Is Published

22 August 1930 - 20 October 1930

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37

Murison Commission of Inquiry

Charles Tegart's Means of Control

3 December 1937

Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

Formation of a British-Arab Committee on Hussein-McMahon Correspondence at the London Round Table Conference

15 February 1939 - 16 March 1939

UNRWA Signs Agreement with Jordan as Refugee Host Country

14 March 1951 - 20 August 1951

US Withdraws Aswan Funding

John Kerry Conducts Shuttle Diplomacy for Resumption of Negotiations

4 March 2013 - 8 May 2013

Arab League Delegation in Washington Discusses the Arab Peace Initiative

Kerry's Shuttle Diplomacy for the Resumption of Talks Intensifies and Apparently Succeeds

23 May 2013 - 19 July 2013

Terms of Talk Resumption as Sponsored by Kerry

Launch of Kerry-Sponsored Palestinian-Israeli Direct Negotiations in Washington

29 July 2013 - 30 July 2013

Israeli-Palestinian Direct Talks Take Place in Jerusalem

14 August 2013 - 2 September 2013

Israeli-Palestinian Talks Accelerate for Nothing

25 September 2013 - 23 October 2013

Israel's Settlement Expansion Disrupts the Palestinian Negotiation Team

31 October 2013 - 13 November 2013

Aim of Talks Is No Longer a Comprehensive Agreement but a Framework Agreement

14 November 2013 - 31 January 2014

Abbas Meeting with Kerry in Paris Ends in Total Failure

19 February 2014 - 21 February 2014

Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

Stakes Related to Whether Israel Will Release, as Agreed, the 4th Group of Palestinian Prisoners

17 March 2014 - 29 March 2014

25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Settlement Announcement in the Midst of a Crisis Regarding the Negotiations

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20

23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: The Intermittent Cease-Fires (Phase III)

31 July 2014 - 26 August 2014

The PLO Strives for a Security Council Resolution Specifying a Timetable for Ending the Occupation

26 September 2014 - 28 November 2014

Palestinian Leadership Debates End of Security Coordination with Israel

10 December 2014 - 14 December 2014

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

22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015

The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba

21 February 2016

Palestinians Thwart the Setting Up of Cameras at Haram al-Sharif

18 March 2016 - 18 April 2016

Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

28 December 2016

Historical Texts

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Palin Commission Report

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

Churchill White Paper

Shaw Commission Report

The Hope Simpson Report

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

The Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1937

Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 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

British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN

UNSCOP Minority Proposal: Federal State Plan

3 September 1947

UN Palestine Commission First Report

29 January 1948

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1948

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

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

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

7 February 1983

President Clinton Proposals on Israeli‑Palestinian Peace

23 December 2000

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

25 September 2009

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

30 September 2015

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

1 November 2017

Historical Media

Arrival in Palestine of Sir Hebert Samuel, High Commissioner

Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception

London Conference

Abandoning Ship

Highlights

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestinian Photographers Before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Kerry-Sponsored Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations

2013 - 2014

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