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Events

Event
Napoleon Bonaparte in Palestine
February 1799 - May 1799
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Building of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad Line
31 March 1890 - 26 September 1892
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Protection of Cultivators Ordinance No. 27
31 July 1929
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Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan
6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947
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Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road
3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948
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Fighting Around Jerusalem
12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948
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Control of Coastal Plain Haifa-Tel Aviv
13 May 1948 - 23 May 1948
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Abandoned Areas Ordinance
24 June 1948
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Bernadotte's New Plan
16 September 1948
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Emergency Regulations Regarding Absentee Property
2 December 1948
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Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"
January 1949 - December 1956
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Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950
14 March 1950
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Military Order No. 58, Concerning Abandoned Property (Private Property)
23 July 1967
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Military Order No. 59, Concerning State Property
31 July 1967
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The PFLP Announces It Has Abandoned the Tactic of Hijacking Planes
14 March 1972
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The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Issues Its Charter
18 August 1988
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Israel and the US Put Effective End to Peace Talks
7 February 2001 - 8 February 2001
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Aqaba Summit: Bush, Abdullah, Abbas, and Sharon Meet
4 June 2003
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Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah
4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003
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Assassination of Trad Jamal, Ibrahim Dayri, and Ammar Hassan near Deir al-Balah
3 March 2004
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Assassination of Mohammed Shaban al-Dahdouh in Gaza City
20 May 2006
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US Makes Incredible Offer to Israel in Exchange for a Two-Month Partial Settlement Freeze
29 September 2010 - 12 December 2010
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Fayyad's Cabinet Reshuffle
16 May 2012

Biographies

Biography
Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Biography
Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi
1864 - 6 August 1913
Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Khalil al-Sakakini
23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953
Biography
Izzeddin al-Qassam
1882 - 20 November 1935
Biography
Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani
1888 - 20 January 1954
Biography
Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali
1889 - 7 July 1973
Biography
Ibrahim Tuqan
1905 - 2 May 1941
Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Biography
Samiha Khalil
20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999
Biography
George Habash
1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008
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
Ahmad Ismail Yasin
June 1936 - 22 March 2004
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
François Abou Salem
16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Historical Texts

Document
Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
Document
Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
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Statement of the Arab National Conference
13 December 1931
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The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
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Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
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Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
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Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report
9 November 1938
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London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
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Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine
15 May 1948
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Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine
15 May 1948
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Abandoned Areas Ordinance
24 June 1948
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Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement
15 March 1972
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Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement
28 November 1973
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Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
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Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
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Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement
14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983
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King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank
31 July 1988
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Palestinian Declaration of Independence
15 November 1988
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Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference
31 October 1991
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UNGA Resolution ES-10/3
15 July 1997
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President Bill Clinton Proposals for a Final Settlement
23 December 2000
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PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement
1 January 2001
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The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
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President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech
16 July 2007
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President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World
4 June 2009
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Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years
22 June 2009
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Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War
27 April 2015
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Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
Document
Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan
7 September 2017

Historical Media

Document
The Haganah Starts Its Offensive
15 August 1947
Document
Abandoning Ship
14 May 1948

Places

Place
al-Qudayriyya
Place
Dayr 'Amr
Place
Dayr Aban
Place
Dayr Abu Salama
Place
Dayr al-Dubban
Place
Dayr al-Hawa
Place
Dayr Nakhkhas
Place
Dayr al-Qasi
Place
Dayr al-Shaykh
Place
Dayr Ayyub
Place
Dayr Muhaysin
Place
Dayr Rafat
Place
Dayr Sunayd
Place
Dayr Tarif

Highlights

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Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
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VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival
1982-1987
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The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)
After the Nakba
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The Palestinian Communist Movement
1948-present
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Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Jaramana 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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Marka Refugee Camp
Jordan
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The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps
Perpetuating the Temporary
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Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Fawwar Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Sbeineh Refugee Camp
Syria
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Rashidiyya Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
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The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
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Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
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Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps
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Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
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Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
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The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
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Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
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Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
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Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
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Resolution 242, 22 November 1967
Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement
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France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
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Italy and the Palestine Question
From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility
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Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property
Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab
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Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
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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 Separation Wall
Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians
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Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018
Enshrining Discrimination
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The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)
1957-1990
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Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule
Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition
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Nablus Soap Production
The Decline of an Ancient Heritage
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Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967
The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”
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V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War
1950-1966
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XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted
2006-2017
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October 1973 War
A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results
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China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP
1967-present
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The Second Intifada, 2000-2005
Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations