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Biographies

Biography
Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1882 - 1951
Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Biography
Issa al-Sifri
1894 - 19 March 1949
Biography
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini
1895 - 4 July 1974
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Fuad Saba
1902 - 27 August 1984
Biography
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Abd al-Majid Shuman
1912 - 5 July 2005
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013
Biography
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946

Events

Event
Balfour Declaration Is Made
2 November 1917
Event
House of Lords and House of Commons Conflicting Views on Palestine
20 June 1922 - 4 July 1922
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Anti-Balfour Demonstrations in Palestine
25 March 1925 - 1 April 1925
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John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development
2 May 1930
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White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published
20 October 1930
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MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann
13 February 1931
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Stern Gang Assassinates Lord Moyne in Cairo
6 November 1944
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100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017

Historical Texts

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Balfour Declaration
2 November 1917
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Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
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Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
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London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
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Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
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Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset
20 November 1977
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Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
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Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué
15 November 1988
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Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
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The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies
1 May 2017
Document
President Donald Trump: Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel
25 March 2019

Historical Media

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Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)
2 November 1932
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Lord Peel in Front of King David Hotel
November 1936
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Peel Commission and Partition
11 November 1936
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London Conference
February 1939

Highlights

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The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
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III. Late Mandate
1936-1947
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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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The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
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Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939
A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression
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Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
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Resolution 242, 22 November 1967
Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement
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Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans