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4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1910 - 26 February 1971

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

Historical Texts

Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Council of the League of Nations: Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate: Approving the Memorandum by the British Representative

16 September 1922

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 5407

First Arab Summit: Statement

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

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

7 February 1983

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

Declaration of the Heads of State or Government of the European Union On the Middle East Peace Process: The Berlin Declaration

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip

The Mitchell Report

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNSC Resolution 1701

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

25 September 2009

President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

28 February 2019

B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

12 January 2021

Events

Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front

21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918

British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan

21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant

23 October 1918

San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates

French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

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

The League of Nations Confirms Britain’s Mandate over Palestine

League of Nations Approves Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

British-French Agreement on Boundary Line Between Palestine and Lebanon and Syria

British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah

25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

Establishment of the Zionist Revisionist Movement

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN

Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan and Establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Israel's Construction of the "National Water Carrier"

2 September 1953

Arab League and Jordan River Waters

15 February 1954

The US and Jordan River Waters

25 June 1954 - 6 July 1954

1st Arab Summit Meets in Cairo, Deals with Israeli Diversion of the Jordan River

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Israel Starts Diverting the Jordan River

May 1964 - August 1964

2nd Arab Summit Meets in Alexandria; Welcomes Establishment of PLO

5 September 1964 - 11 September 1964

Israeli Air Force Carries out a Raid in Syria in Response to Fatah Operations

10th (Extraordinary) Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

6 April 1972 - 12 April 1972

October War, 2nd Day

Assassination Attempt of PLO Senior Leadership in Beirut

Fatah Commando Operation and Israel's "Litani Operation"

11 March 1978 - 18 March 1978

Palestinians Hijack an Israeli Bus Toward Gaza

The Beilin-Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu Is Elected Prime Minister

29 May 1996 - 18 June 1996

Wye River Plantation Meeting; Memorandum Signed

15 October 1998 - 23 October 1998

Several Palestinian Organizations Publicly Oppose Wye Memorandum

26 October 1998

Feverish Settlement Activities After Wye Memorandum

26 October 1998 - 15 November 1998

Israeli Obstacles to Wye River Implementation; First Stage Redeployment Only

30 October 1998 - 17 May 1999

Israel Releases the First Group of Prisoners Pursuant to Oral Understandings at Wye River

19 November 1998 - 20 November 1998

Inauguration of LVGR, the Gaza International Airport

20 November 1998 - 24 November 1998

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

10 December 1998

President Clinton's Visit to Gaza

14 December 1998

Palestinian Popular Congress to Confirm Nullification Articles of National Charter, Gaza

14 December 1998

To Declare a Palestinian State at the End of the Transitional Period?

28 December 1998 - 25 April 1999

With Barak as Prime Minister, Negotiations on Wye Implementation Resume

11 July 1999 - 3 September 1999

Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II Accord)

4 September 1999

Official Colonization Activity and (Very) Partial Removal of Settler Outposts

10 October 1999 - 10 November 1999

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 February 2000 - 3 February 2000

Intense then Moderate Resurgence of Palestinian-Israeli Clashes

8 February 2001 - 7 March 2001

Assassination of Muhannad Abu Halaweh and Fawzi Murrar in Ramallah

Assassination of Yasir Rizq and Ameer Kuffe in Rafah

Assassination of Khalil Marshud in Balata Refugee Camp

Assassination of Said Abdul Fattah Abu al-Jedian in Beit Lahiya

Hizballah Fighters Capture Israeli Soldiers

July War: Israel Attempts to Create a Special Security Zone

2 August 2006 - 10 August 2006

SC Res. 1701: Calling for a Cessation of Hostilities to End Israel's War on Lebanon

July War: Israel Attempts a Ground Offensive in Southern Lebanon

11 August 2006 - 14 August 2006

Two Spates of Clashes Across Gaza Border

16 March 2011 - 10 April 2011

Hamas's Khalid Mishal Visits the Gaza Strip

8 December 2012

Palestinians in West Bank Mobilize in Support of Gaza

8 July 2014 - 22 August 2014

Palestinian Car Ramming: A New Palestinian Weapon?

6 March 2015 - 14 May 2015

Palestinian Attacks Against Soldiers and Settlers

8 January 2017 - 26 September 2017

Hamas New Charter

Bezalel Smotrich's "Decisive Plan" for the Complete Land of Israel

7 September 2017

Leading Human Rights Groups Deem Israel an Apartheid State

12 January 2021 - 27 April 2021

Historical Media

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

2 November 1932

Continuing Exodus: Jordan River

Implosion, Killing of the Women, Ninth Wave of Killing

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Marka Refugee Camp

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans