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Ottoman Pledges to Grant Facilities to France: Towards the Capitulations Regime

18 October 1569 - 1613

First Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Establishment of Foreign Archeological Institutes in Jerusalem

Building of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad Line

31 March 1890 - 26 September 1892

Establishment of the Jewish Colonization Association in London

Publication of The Awakening of the Arab Nation in Asiatic Turkey by Najib Azoury

Establishment of the Qahtani Society in Istanbul

Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley

March 1909 - July 1909

Balfour Declaration Is Made

2 November 1917

Appointment of a British Chief Administrator for Palestine

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Pact of the League of Arab States; Annex on Palestine

Transjordan's Application for UN Membership Fails to Obtain Security Council Approval

26 June 1946 - 29 August 1946

The British Mandate Ends. The US Recognizes the State of Israel

The USSR Recognizes the State of Israel on a de jure Basis

France Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

24 January 1949

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

The US Recognizes the Government of Israel on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Official Name of Jordan as an Issue

Great Britain Announces Formal Recognition of Extended Kingdom of Jordan and de jure Recognition of Israel Simultaneously

The PLO Opens its First Information Office in New York

22 January 1965 - 29 October 1974

A Palestine Information Office (PIO) Is Opened in Washington

Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank

16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982

Attempted Assassination of Zaki Hillo in Madrid

Lebanon's Parliament Votes to Reject 1983 Agreement with Israel and 1969 Agreement with PLO

The US Orders the Closure of the Palestine Information Office (PIO) in Washington

15 September 1987 - 5 August 1988

SC Res. 681: Deploring Israel's Decision to Resume Deportations of Palestinian Civilians

20 December 1990

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

17 October 1991

US-Soviet Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference

18 October 1991

The Madrid Peace Conference

30 October 1991 - 2 November 1991

1st Negotiation Round, Madrid

3 November 1991

4th Negotiation Round, Washington

24 February 1992 - 4 March 1992

Status of Orient House in Jerusalem

29 May 1994 - 7 June 1994

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

French-Palestinian Agreement on Status of French Institutions Under Palestinian Authority

12 December 1997 - 18 December 1997

21 January 2001 - 27 January 2001

US and Palestinian Efforts to Stop Israeli Escalation

12 September 2001 - 16 October 2001

US Response to the Israeli Invasion

4 April 2002 - 17 April 2002

Birth of the Middle East "Quartet"

15th Arab Summit Meets in Sharm al-Shaykh

UNGA Res. ES-10/14: Requesting an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ on the Legal Consequences of the Wall

8 December 2003

17th Arab Summit Meets in Algiers

22 March 2005 - 23 March 2005

Palestinian Truce Commitment at Risk

18 June 2005 - 21 July 2005

Palestinians in Jaffa Protest Eviction Plans of Israel Land Administration

Fayyad's Emergency Government Becomes a de facto Regular Government

5 July 2007 - 14 July 2007

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

25 August 2009 - 24 September 2009

Clinton's Disturbing Misstep on Settlements

31 October 2009 - 3 November 2009

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20

23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014

Comprehensive Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Palestine

26 June 2015 - 2 January 2016

Five-Day Violence Along the Gaza Strip Border

3 May 2016 - 7 May 2016

Israel's State Comptroller Publishes Report on Gaza 2014 War

28 February 2017

Mass Demolitions in Sur Bahir

Israel Attack Gaza over Incendiary Protest Balloons

6 August 2020 - 1 September 2020

President Biden Visits Israel; Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership

13 July 2022 - 14 July 2023

Historical Texts

Ottoman-French Capitulation, 1673 (in French)

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

San Remo Conference Resolutions: Syria, Mesopotamia [Iraq], Palestine Mandates

Palin Commission Report

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

The Hope Simpson Report

Pact of the League of Arab States

UN Palestine Commission First Report

29 January 1948

UN Palestine Commission Report on Security in Palestine

16 February 1948

Statement by the Committee of the Christian Union of Palestine

US Recognition of the State of Israel

The US Recognizes Israel on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

Secretary-General Report A/39/130 - S/16409

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

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

13 December 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

UNSC Resolution 681

20 December 1990

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 1st Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 2nd Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 4th Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker

U.S.-Soviet Letter of Invitation to Peace Talks in Madrid

18 October 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1995/394

Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

28 September 1995

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

UNGA Resolution ES-10/2

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

The Mitchell Report

Letter of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

UNSC Resolution 1402

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

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2003/980

14 October 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/13

27 October 2003

UNSC Resolution 1515

19 November 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/14

12 December 2003

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/508

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/878

10 November 2006

UNGA Resolution ES-10/16

30 November 2006

UNSC Resolution 1850

16 December 2008

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24

18 February 2011

Statement by Middle East Quartet

23 September 2011

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

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

Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

Report of the Middle East Quartet

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2017/1060

18 December 2017

UNGA Resolution ES-10/19

21 December 2017

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

UNGA Resolution ES-10/20

Basic Law: Israel - the Nation-State of the Jewish People

UNGA Resolution 73/89

6 December 2018

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

28 February 2019

ICC Decision on its Jurisdiction in Palestine

5 February 2021

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to HRC

US-Israel Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership

31st Arab Summit: Algiers Declaration (in French)

2 November 2022

UNGA Resolution 77/247

30 December 2022

Biographies

1868 - October 1930

1878 - 29 June 1950

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

1893 - 27 April 1940

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

1917 - 12 December 2003

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1925 - 10 April 1973

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

1929 - 2 June 2016

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

1938 - 16 December 2020

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1942 - 6 August 2019

13 July 1949 - 18 February 2026

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

Yahya al-Sinwar

19 October 1962 - 17 October 2024

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Palestinian-Israeli Interim Negotiation Rounds

1991 - 1999

Highlights

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

I. Ottoman Rule

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

X. Oslo Process: Towards Failure

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Wihdat Refugee Camp

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

Canada and the Palestine Question

Israel First, Palestinians Second

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Brazil and the Palestine Question

Competing Solidarities, Fluctuating Policies

Periods

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

Places

Khirbat al-Muntar

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Palestinians in the Diaspora (2)

2000

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Palestinians in the Diaspora (1)

2000 - 2010

Historical Media

Projection of the Final Status Map Presented by Israel - December 2000