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

18 October 1569 - 1613

Founding Principles of Ottoman Reform: The Tanzimat Stage II

18 February 1856

Jerusalem Area Designated as a Sanjaq

Sultan Abd al-Hamid II and the Ottoman Constitution

31 August 1876 - 19 December 1876

Jerusalem Representation in the First and Second Ottoman Parliaments

19 March 1877 - 14 February 1878

Young Turk Revolution

Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley

March 1909 - July 1909

Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris

Formation of the Covenant Society in Istanbul

28 October 1913

The British Prepare for the Occupation of Palestine

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

Appointment of the King-Crane Commission

20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919

The General Syrian Congress and the King-Crane Commission

2 July 1919 - 3 July 1919

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The General Syrian National Congress Proclaims the Independence of the Arab Syrian Kingdom

7 March 1920 - 8 March 1920

Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes

2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920

French Occupy Damascus; Arab Syrian Kingdom Nominally Reduced to Transjordan

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa

13 December 1920 - 19 December 1920

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

The British Issue a Constitution for Palestine in the Form of an Order in Council; Non-Applicability to Transjordan

British-French Demarcation of Line Between Palestine (Including Transjordan) and Syria (Including Lebanon)

Enactment of the Palestine Order in Council Related to al-Buraq / Western Wall

Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1931

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

13 December 1931

Great Britain Issues the Palestine Martial Law (Defence) Order in Council, 1936

30 September 1936

General Strike Called Off; Consent to Appear before the Peel Commission

11 October 1936

Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1937

18 March 1937 - 24 March 1937

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

August 1937 - May 1941

Outbreak of World War II

1 September 1939

Roosevelt and Ibn Saud Meet

14 February 1945

End of World War II

8 May 1945 - 15 August 1945

Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan; a New Constitution for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

25 May 1946 - 7 December 1946

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

Setting up an Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question

23 September 1947 - 25 November 1947

UNGA Res. 181 (II): Palestine Partition Plan

29 November 1947

First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense

29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948

The Palestine Commission Submits First Reports to Security Council

29 January 1948 - 16 February 1948

SC Res. 42: Appealing Permanent Members for Guidance on Palestine

A New Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan

British Parliament Enacts the Palestine Act, 1948

Great Britain Issues the Termination of Jurisdiction in Palestine (Transitional Provisions) Order in Council of 1948

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

The "West Bank" of the Jordan to Be Placed Under Jordanian Military Government

16 May 1948 - 24 May 1948

Pro-Jordanian Amman Conference

Arab Responses to Formation of the All-Palestine Government

5 October 1948 - 14 October 1948

Jordan's Early Measure to "Jordanize" Arab Palestinians

14 February 1949

Jordan Undertakes Legislative Steps Aiming at Integrating the West Bank

16 March 1949 - 1 December 1949

Official Name of Jordan as an Issue

Jordan Amends the Parliamentary Election Law

13 December 1949

Dissolution of the Jordanian Parliament

Assassination of King Abdullah

20 July 1951 - 11 August 1952

The Egyptian Revolution of 1952

King Hussein’s Formal Accession to the Throne

Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq

19 June 1970 - 7 August 1970

1st Extraordinary Session of the Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman

27 August 1970 - 28 August 1970

Black September in Jordan

15 September 1970 - 25 September 1970

Emergency Arab Summit Meets in Cairo to Force a Palestinian-Jordanian Agreement

21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970

King Hussein Proposes a "United Arab Kingdom"

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

6 April 1972 - 12 April 1972

October War, From the 6th to 10th Day

11 October 1973 - 14 October 1973

Arab Oil, a Weapon in the Battle

17 October 1973 - 21 October 1973

Negotiations for Sinai II Fail

7 March 1975 - 22 March 1975

Sinai II Agreement Reached

20 August 1975 - 4 September 1975

PLO and Jordan Agree on Idea of Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation

9 October 1982 - 10 November 1982

Failed Attempt of Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination

31 March 1983 - 8 April 1983

Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination for Peace Talks

26 February 1984 - 1 March 1984

Palestinian Internal Polarization

27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984

Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

11 February 1985 - 22 February 1985

Attempts to Form a Jordanian-Palestinian Delegation to Meet the US

1 March 1985 - 1 September 1985

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Casablanca

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Breakdown of Jordanian-Palestinian Coordination

25 January 1986 - 1 April 1986

Hussein-Peres London Secret Agreement

Detention of Faisal al-Husseini

12 April 1987 - 13 September 1987

Resumption of Diplomatic Activity

30 January 1988 - 10 February 1988

Another Round of Releasing and Detaining Faisal al-Husseini

9 June 1988 - 29 January 1989

Jordan Severs Ties with the West Bank

28 July 1988 - 4 August 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Casablanca

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Secretary Baker First Stage Diplomacy

9 March 1991 - 14 May 1991

President Bush's Letters to M.E. Leaders on Proposed Peace Conference

1 June 1991 - 14 July 1991

20th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers

23 September 1991 - 28 September 1991

US Letters of Assurances to Parties to Upcoming Peace Conference

15 October 1991 - 18 October 1991

Palestinians Agree to Return to Washington Negotiations

The Mirage of the 5-Year Countdown to Palestinian Statehood

4 May 1994 - 3 May 1999

Status of Orient House in Jerusalem

29 May 1994 - 7 June 1994

Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II)

28 September 1995

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Maps the Shape of the Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Solution

Israeli Army Redeploys from Areas in the West Bank

November 1995 - December 1995

Palestinian Presidential and Legislative Elections

20 January 1996

Start of the Countdown for the Three-Phase Further Redeployment in the West Bank

Redeployment from Hebron Delayed

21st Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza

22 April 1996 - 24 April 1996

Protocol on Redeployment in Hebron Signed

6 October 1996 - 16 January 1997

Ambiguous and Weakened Assurances on Further Redeployment

16 January 1997

Israeli Settlement Activities Amid Attempts to Resume Talks

10 September 1997 - 6 November 1997

US Position on Further Redeployment and Palestinian Obligations

5 December 1997 - 3 September 1998

Wye River Plantation Meeting; Memorandum Signed

15 October 1998 - 23 October 1998

Israeli Obstacles to Wye River Implementation; First Stage Redeployment Only

30 October 1998 - 17 May 1999

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

28 December 1998 - 25 April 1999

King Hussein Dies; Eldest Son Is Crowned King Abdullah II

17 February 1999

Orient House, Jerusalem and PLO Foreign Relations

1 March 1999 - 11 May 1999

Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II Accord)

4 September 1999

Implementation of Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II)

10 September 1999 - 20 March 2000

Official Resumption of Final Status Talks

13 September 1999 - 6 December 1999

Failure to Reach a FAPS by 13 February 2000 Target Date

8 December 1999 - 6 February 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 February 2000 - 3 February 2000

Ariel Sharon at al-Haram al-Sharif

28 September 2000

Sharm al-Shaykh Summit

16 October 2000 - 18 October 2000

Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal for a Cease-Fire and a Resumption of Talks

16 April 2001 - 27 April 2001

Death of Faisal al-Husseini

14th Arab Summit Meets in Beirut and Adopts Saudi Peace Initiative

27 March 2002 - 28 March 2002

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

Saudi Initiative for Palestinian Unity: the Mecca Accord

28 January 2007 - 8 February 2007

19th Arab Summit Meets in Riyadh: Revival of the Arab Peace Initiative

28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007

Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire

4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008

The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Arab Side

21 April 2009 - 28 May 2009

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

Stakes Related to Whether Israel Will Release, as Agreed, the 4th Group of Palestinian Prisoners

17 March 2014 - 29 March 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: Israel Launches Ground Invasion (Phase II)

17 July 2014 - 31 July 2014

Netanyahu Reaffirms Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif; Cameras at Haram al-Sharif?

22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015

The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba

21 February 2016

27th Arab Summit Meets in Nouakchott

Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee Reactivated

15 January 2017

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Mecca

PA Issues Building Permits in Area C

Morocco Normalizes Relations with Israel in Exchange for US Recognition of Western Sahara as Part of Morocco

10 December 2020 - 14 December 2020

Hightened Tension over Attempts to Evict Palestinian Families from Sheikh Jarrah

15 February 2021 - 9 May 2021

The May 2021 Gaza War

10 May 2021 - 21 May 2021

Israeli Policy of Evicting Palestinian Families in East Jerusalem

19 January 2022 - 10 May 2022

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

1860 - 13 April 1930

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

1885 - 19 December 1953

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

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

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

Constantine Zurayk

18 April 1909 - 12 August 2000

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

1928 - 1 September 2020

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1936 - 3 August 1978

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

Historical Texts

Basel (Zionist) Program

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

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

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

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

Shaw Commission Report

The Hope Simpson Report

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

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

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

The Murison Commission Report

Proposed New Constitution for Palestine

22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935

The Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1937

Peel Commission Report

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

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

13 November 1945

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1946

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Council of the Arab League: Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Statement by the Council of the Arab League on the Anglo-American Committee's Report on Palestine

The Grady-Morrison Plan

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

UNSCOP Minority Proposal: Federal State Plan

3 September 1947

UNSCOP Majority Proposal: Partition Plan

3 September 1947

UNSCOP Recommendations Approved Unanimously or by Substantial Majority

3 September 1947

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

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

UNSC Resolution 42

Text of Plan Dalet (Plan D): General Section

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1948

SC Res. 44: Requesting a GA ٍSpecial Session on Future Palestine Government

The Palestine Act, 1948

UNGA Resolution 186 (S-2)

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

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Ad Hoc Political Committee Resolution on Israel’s Application for UN Membership

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 303

9 December 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Declaration of Jordan’s National Assembly, On the Unity between the Eastern and Western Banks of Jordan

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

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 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

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

First Arab Summit: Statement

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Basic Law of the PLO

Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

Fourth Arab Summit: Resolutions

1 September 1967

UNSC Resolution 242

22 November 1967

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

Speech by Jordan’s King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement

Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Seventh Arab Summit: The Palestine Resolution

29 October 1974

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Eighth Arab Summit: Statement

25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976

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

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 January 1980

Statement of First National Festival of Palestinian Literature in the Occupied Land

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14985

President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin

Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal

2 September 1982

Twelfth Arab Summit: the Fez Initiative

9 September 1982

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

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

The London Agreement

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1987: Resolutions

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

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

13 December 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/177

15 December 1988

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

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

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

Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)

13 September 1993

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

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

28 September 1995

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

UNGA Resolution ES-10/2

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

UNGA Resolution 52/250

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

Israel’s Response to President Clinton Proposals

The Mitchell Report

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

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/14

12 December 2003

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

8 February 2007

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

President George W. Bush’s Speech Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

10 January 2008

Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

25 September 2009

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem

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

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

Report of the Middle East Quartet

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Middle East Peace Conference Joint Declaration

15 January 2017

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

28 February 2019

30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration

Statement of ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda On Opening an Investigation into War Crimes in Palestine

20 December 2019

Abraham Accords: Bahrain-Israel Declaration

15 September 2020

ICC Decision on its Jurisdiction in Palestine

5 February 2021

Framework for Cooperation between UNRWA and the USA, 2021-2022

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to HRC

Historical Media

Young Turks Revolution

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

2 November 1932

Lord Peel in Front of King David Hotel

Peel Commission and Partition

11 November 1936

Illegal Immigration (I)

Illegal Immigration (II)

King David Hotel

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Jewish Immigration

1948 - 2013

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Fertility Rate

1962 - 2018

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

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Projections of Population (1)

2015 - 2048

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Projections of Population (2)

2015 - 2048

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Projections of Population (3)

2015 - 2048

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Zionist Operations Against the British Mandate Authorities

1944 - 1947

Thematic Chronology

Israeli Assassination Campaign Within Palestine Borders (II)

2005-present

Highlights

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

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 Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

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 Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Palestine Communist Party

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

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

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

I. Ottoman Rule

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

III. Late Mandate

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

X. Oslo Process: Towards Failure

XIII. A Growingly Intractable Deadlock

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Canada and the Palestine Question

Israel First, Palestinians Second

Zarqa Refugee Camp

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Periods

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

III. Late Mandate

Places

al-Batani al-Gharbi

al-Batani al-Sharqi

al-Masmiyya al-Kabira

al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya

al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya

al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya

al-Shaykh Muwannis

Khirbat Bayt Lid

Daliyat al-Rawha'

Khirbat al-Tannur

Khirbat al-Zababida

Khirbat Bayt Far

Khirbat Qumbaza

Sarafand al-'Amar