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Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1893 - 27 April 1940

1894 - 19 March 1949

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1942 - 6 August 2019

Events

The Ottoman Government Sets Out Principles Governing Jewish Immigration to the Empire

24 November 1881

Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt

France and the Ottoman Empire Sign the Mytilene Agreements

2 November 1901 - 10 November 1901

Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company

7 July 1903 - 24 November 1903

6th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

23 August 1903 - 28 August 1903

Establishment of the Rawdat al-Ma'arif al-Wataniyya al-'Uthmaniyya al-Islamiyya in Jerusalem

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

11th Zionist Congress Meets in Vienna

2 September 1913 - 9 September 1913

World War I, the Ottomans Enter the War

1 August 1914 - February 1915

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: 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

The British Prepare for the Occupation of Palestine

First Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Gaza Does not Fall

28 February 1917 - 19 April 1917

Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

Balfour Declaration Is Made

2 November 1917

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

Arrival in Palestine of the Zionist Commission

Appointment of a British Chief Administrator for Palestine

Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine

19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918

British Conquest of Transjordan Is Achieved

22 September 1918 - 27 September 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

The Ottomans Sign the Armistice of Mudros; Istanbul Is Occupied

30 October 1918 - 13 November 1918

Proclamations No. 75 and No. 76 on Immovable Property

18 November 1918

Treaty of Versailles; Establishment of the League of Nations

28 June 1919 - 10 January 1920

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Palin Commission of Inquiry

12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920

San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

Palestine Civil Government and Appointment of Herbert Samuel as High Commisioner

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

The Ottomans Sign the Treaty of Sèvres; The Turkish National Assembly in Ankara Rejects It

Mahlul Land Ordinance

Advisory Council for Palestine Is Established

Transfer of Land Ordinance

3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa

13 December 1920 - 19 December 1920

Mewat Land Ordinance

16 February 1921

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Palestine Police Ordinance Is Issued

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

May Day Clashes in Jaffa

1 May 1921 - 7 May 1921

Palestine Gendarmerie Is Established

1 July 1921 - 24 April 1922

The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London

2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922

Transfer of Land Amendment Ordinance No. 2

8 December 1921

Regulation Concerning the Supreme Moslem Sharia Council

20 December 1921 - 9 January 1922

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

House of Lords and House of Commons Conflicting Views on Palestine

20 June 1922 - 4 July 1922

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Orders the Return of its Delegation from London

7 July 1922 - 31 July 1922

The League of Nations Confirms Britain’s Mandate over Palestine

The British Issue a Constitution for Palestine in the Form of an Order in Council

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

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

1st British Census of Palestine

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

6th Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jaffa

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

Official Onset of British Mandate for Palestine

29 September 1923

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

14th Zionist Congress Is Held in Vienna

18 August 1925 - 31 August 1925

Correction of Land Registers Ordinance, No. 12

16 February 1926

The Palestine Gendarmerie Is Disbanded and the Palestine Police Reorganized

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

Land Settlement Ordinance No. 9

Tension Over al-Buraq/ Western Wall

23 September 1928 - 30 October 1928

White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall

19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928

al-Buraq / Western Wall: Palestinians Rise up in Protest against Zionist Provocations

15 August 1929 - 29 August 1929

The British Form a Commission of Inquiry on Disturbances at al-Buraq / Western Wall

13 September 1929

The British Issue the Criminal Law (Seditious Offences) Ordinance

25 October 1929

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

26 October 1929

General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa

11 January 1930

League of Nations Council Approves the Appointment of an International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall

14 January 1930 - 15 May 1930

Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances

4th Palestinian Delegation to London

1 April 1930 - 23 May 1930

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

Hanging of Palestinian Militants

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

13 February 1931

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Denounces MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

17th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

30 June 1931 - 15 July 1931

A Conference in Nablus Debates Resorting to Arms

2nd British Census of Palestine

An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress

13 December 1931

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Death of Musa Kazim Husseini

Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially

The British Issue the Press Ordinance

17 January 1935

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party

Establishment of the National Bloc Party

Death of Shaykh Izzeddin al-Qassam in a Battle with a British Force

12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935

Joint Memorandum of Palestinian Parties

25 November 1935

Revival of the Legislative Council Idea

December 1935 - March 1936

Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936

First Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 23 July 1937

Enactment of Emergency Regulations

British Violent Repression

May 1936 - June 1936

British Secure Military Reinforcements and Arm a Jewish Settlement Police

May 1936 - September 1936

Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

The British Issue the Collective Fines Ordinance

Fawzi al-Qawuqji Aids the Great Palestine Rebellion

The Settlement of Tel ‘Amal Is Founded Overnight in the Baysan Region

10 December 1936

Criminal Code Ordinance of 1936

Avner Defense Plan

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

Palestinians Reject Peel Commission Report

Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

23 July 1937 - September 1938

Formation of the Arab National League (ANL) in New York

August 1937 - May 1941

20th Zionist Congress Meets in Zürich

3 August 1937 - 16 August 1937

British Commissioner Is Assassinated

26 September 1937

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee

Anti-British Operation and British Retaliation in al-Bassa

6 September 1938 - 10 September 1938

British Military Officers Replace Civilian Commissioners

Third Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

October 1938 - September 1939

The "International Parliamentarian Congress of Arab and Islamic Countries in Support of Palestine" Is Held in Cairo

7 October 1938 - 11 October 1938

British "Divide-and-Rule" Policy

November 1938 - May 1939

Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published

9 November 1938

The British Government Rejects the Conclusions of the Partition (Woodhead) Commission

11 November 1938

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

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

15 February 1939 - 16 March 1939

Killing of Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad

MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians

17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939

The Palestine Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Wave of Irgun Attacks against Palestinians

2 June 1939 - 1 August 1939

Military Recruitment in Palestine

3 September 1939

Stern Gang Calls for Alliance with Axis

Land Transfers Regulations

20 February 1940

Blowing up of SS Patria

Killing of Avraham Stern

Haganah Stockpiles Weapons

British Recommend Partition

Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British

January 1944 - March 1944

British Labour Party Favors Transfer of Palestinians

Stern Gang Assassinates Lord Moyne in Cairo

6 November 1944

Pact of the League of Arab States; Annex on Palestine

Labor Victory in Great Britain

Truman and Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

The British Mandate Issues the Defence (Emergency) Regulations

27 September 1945

Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism

1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945

Bevin's Statement on Palestine; Formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

13 November 1945

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Organized Irgun and Lehi Anti-British Attacks

24 November 1945 - 19 January 1946

Palestinians Declare Strike to Protest Bevin's Policy Statement of November 1945

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN

An Irgun Attack on British

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

Formation of the (Palestinian) Arab Higher Front in Opposition to the Palestine Arab Party

Arab League Supervises the Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

Anglo-American Conference Meets in London and Proposes the Morrison-Grady Federal Plan

Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement

5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946

New Wave of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

9 September 1946 - 2 December 1946

Round Table Conference on Palestine Held in London

10 September 1946 - 3 October 1946

22nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

9 December 1946 - 24 December 1946

More Irgun Operations Against the British

29 December 1946 - 28 January 1947

London Round Table Conference Reopens and Fails

27 January 1947 - 18 February 1947

Deadly Zionist Anti-British Attacks

28 February 1947 - 1 March 1947

Great Britain Refers the question of Palestine to the UN

Continuation of Zionist-British Confrontation

16 April 1947 - 26 April 1947

Casualties of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

Stern Gang Letter Bombs Against Officials in London

Majority of UNSCOP Members Recommend Partition

15 June 1947 - 3 September 1947

Irgun Kidnaps and Murders Two British Sergeants

11 July 1947 - 31 July 1947

British to Terminate Palestine Mandate

26 September 1947

Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Great Britain Announces Termination Date of its Mandate over Palestine

11 December 1947

Arab Liberation Army Organized

1 January 1948 - 10 January 1948

Palestinian Attacks

14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948

The Palestine Commission Submits First Reports to Security Council

31 January 1948 - 16 February 1948

British Break Arab Attacks

6 February 1948 - 10 February 1948

Transjordan and Great Britain Agree on Jordanian Military Intervention in Palestine

7 February 1948

Fate of Diplomatic Representations in Jerusalem

11 February 1948 - 1 May 1948

Second Phase of the Palestine War: Zionist Offensive

10 March 1948 - 15 May 1948

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition

18 March 1948 - 30 March 1948

Early Responses to Truce and Trusteeship Ideas

19 March 1948 - 20 March 1948

Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings

4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948

Fighting Around Jerusalem

12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948

Fall of Tiberias

16 April 1948 - 18 April 1948

Trusteeship Plan for Palestine

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Operation Jevussi for the Conquest of Jerusalem

26 April 1948 - 30 April 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

British Parliament Enacts the Palestine Act, 1948

Arab States (Reluctantly) Prepare for Intervention in Palestine

30 April 1948 - 12 May 1948

Arab Gains in Gush Etzion

3 May 1948 - 14 May 1948

Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area

8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948

Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Revocations) Order in Council, 1948

Operations Shfifon and Kilshon in Jerusalem

14 May 1948 - 28 May 1948

Arab States Explain Reasons for Intervening in Palestine

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

Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

Israel's Law and Administration Ordinance

Israel Establishes Military Government in Palestinian Areas

21 October 1948

Operation Horev Against Egyptian Forces

22 December 1948 - 6 January 1949

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Gaza's Egyptian Administration

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

Led by George Habash, Arab Nationalist Activists on the Way to Structure Their Movement

1 January 1951 - 30 November 1952

Israeli Operation Against Jordan

Israel and the Lavon Affair

July 1954 - 17 February 1955

Gaza's Basic Law

France and Israel Sign Arms Deal and Prepare for War

22 June 1956 - 29 July 1956

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

The 1956 War - The Tripartite Aggression

29 October 1956 - 12 March 1957

Britain and France Join the War

31 October 1956

Soviet Union Threatens Intervention

5 November 1956

British and French Troops Invade Canal Zone

5 November 1956

UNGA 1002 (ES-1): Calling for Withdrawal of Israeli Forces Behind Armistice Lines and of British and French Forces from Egypt

7 November 1956

The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) Deploys in Sinai

12 November 1956 - 12 March 1957

Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq

Israeli Military Order Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions (West Bank) No. 101

Land Law, 5729-1969

PFLP Hijack Operations

6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970

6 October 1973 - 27 October 1973

Start of Civil War in Lebanon

13 April 1975 - 2 September 1982

Camp David Summit; Camp David Accords

5 September 1978 - 17 September 1978

9th Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad and Condemns the Camp David Accords

5 November 1978

14th Palestine National Council Is Held in Damascus

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty Is Signed in Washington, DC

3rd Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Herzliya

25 June 1979 - 26 June 1979

10th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Herzliya

1 May 1980 - 7 May 1980

Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo

11 November 1981 - 12 November 1981

Last Stage of Israeli Withdrawal from the Sinai

Reagan's Plan on the Palestinian Issue

1 September 1982

Israel Rejects the Reagan Plan

2 September 1982

Israeli-Lebanese Negotiations

28 December 1982

Yasir Arafat in Tripoli, Lebanon, and then Cairo

16 September 1983 - 22 December 1983

Palestinians in the Occupied Territories Oppose Reactivating the Jordanian Parliament

23 January 1984

Palestinian Internal Polarization

27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984

17th Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Iron Fist Policy in the Occupied Territories

29 July 1985 - 4 August 1985

US Legislation Aiming at the Closure of the PLO UN Observer Mission in New York

9 October 1987 - 22 December 1987

UNGA 42/210: Affirms PLO UN Mission Covered by Headquarters Agreement with Host Country

17 December 1987

UNGA 42/229: Calling Host Country to Abide by Agreement (on PLO Mission), Requesting ICJ Opinion

ICJ on US Treaty Obligations and the US Position on the PLO Office in New York

9 March 1988 - 11 March 1988

A US Federal Court Refuses to Order the Closure of the PLO UN Mission

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Casablanca

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty Signed near Aqaba

26 October 1994

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

London Meeting on Supporting the Palestinian Authority

Disengagement: Evacuation of Troops; The Case of Gaza-Egypt Border

15 August 2005 - 12 September 2005

Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Israeli and International Reactions

27 January 2006 - 5 February 2006

Israeli Raid on Jericho Jail

14 March 2006 - 18 March 2006

35th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

19 June 2006 - 22 June 2006

Tony Blair Appointed Quartet Special Representative

The Annapolis Conference Opens a New Round of Palestinian-Israeli Talks

27 November 2007

War on Gaza: US-Israel MOU on Arms Smuggling into Gaza

16 January 2009

Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhuh in Dubai

20 January 2010 - 31 January 2010

22nd Arab Summit Meets in Sirte

Direct Israeli-Palestinian Talks, Mediated by George Mitchell, Formally Relaunched in Washington

1 September 2010 - 2 September 2010

23rd Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad

Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem

With the Nonrelease of Prisoners, the Palestinian Leadership Applies for Access to 19 International Conventions

Despite the Negotiation Crisis, Palestinian and Israeli Representatives Pursue Talks in Jerusalem

3 April 2014 - 22 April 2014

President Abbas Signs Acceptance of the ICC Jurisdiction and Accession to the ICC Rome Statute

31 December 2014 - 7 January 2015

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

4 March 2015 - 5 March 2015

100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration

1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017

Abbas Signs 22 Treaties as a Response to Trump's Move on Jerusalem

18 December 2017

PA Requests Membership of International Treaties and Conventions in Response to US Embassy Move

24 March 2018 - 6 June 2018

Palestinian Professor of Engineering Fadi al-Batsh Assassinated in Kuala Lumpur

Jerusalem Court Ruling Threatens 700 Palestinians With Eviction

19 January 2020 - 26 January 2020

Historical Texts

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Sykes-Picot Agreement

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

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

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 Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

Churchill White Paper

Statement of the Executive Committee of the 4th Palestinian National Congress Rejecting the British Mandate (in Arabic)

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

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

16 September 1922

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

Report “to Determine the Rights and Claims of Moslems and Jews in Connection with the Western or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem”

1 December 1930

Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931

Charter of the Arab Youth Congress

The Murison Commission Report

Proposed New Constitution for Palestine

22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report

11 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

Pact of the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine

Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

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

Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

Palestine National (watani) Charter

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Israel-U.S. Working Paper on the Resumption of the Geneva Peace Conference

Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)

17 September 1978

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Joint Letter from President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin to President Carter Concerning Negotiations on Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin

Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal

2 September 1982

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/229

UNGA Resolution 42/230

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

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

PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

UNGA Resolution ES-10/12

25 September 2003

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Joint Understanding Between Israel and the PLO Read by President Bush

27 November 2007

UNSC Resolution 1850

16 December 2008

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

25 September 2009

Mahmoud Abbas's Op-Ed in the New York Times: The Long Overdue Palestinian State

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

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

30 September 2015

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

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

1 November 2017

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

28 February 2019

Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel

15 September 2020

Joint Statement of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Egypt and Jordan (The Munich Group)

11 January 2021

Historical Media

Sykes-Picot Agreement

British Troops with Machine Guns

Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception

Musa Kazim Husseini's Funeral, Damascus Gate

Palestine and Oil

Laying Siege to Jaffa's Old City

Arab Revolt 1936 - Reinforcements

British Police Search Palestinians

British Soldiers Enforce a Daytime Curfew on Lydda

Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad

British Troops Regain Control of Jerusalem's Old City

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

London Conference

Illegal Immigration (I)

Illegal Immigration (II)

King David Hotel

Arms Dumps in the Colonies

2 September 1946

Hostage Taking by the Irgun

Importation of a Military Industry

Abandoning Ship

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Zionist Operations Against the British Mandate Authorities

1944 - 1947

Thematic Chronology

1955 - 1957

Thematic Chronology

Regulating Palestinian Land

1858 - present

Thematic Chronology

The UN and Palestine: General Assembly Resolutions

1947 - present

Thematic Chronology

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

1920 - 1945

Thematic Chronology

British and International Commissions of Inquiry in Mandate Palestine

1919 - 1946

Periods

III. Late Mandate

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

I. Ottoman Rule

Highlights

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The Palestine Communist Party

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

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

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

III. Late Mandate

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

IV. The Palestine War And 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

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Lebanon War, 1982

A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

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 National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

I. Ottoman Rule

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

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

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

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

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry