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The Territory Under Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani's Control: Economic and Social Dimension

Alliance Between Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani and Mamluk Leader Ali Bey al-Kabeer: To Conquer Palestine and Syrian Territory

November 1770 - June 1771

Palestine Under Zahir al-Umar: Locus of Intra-Mamluk Rivalry

June 1771 - June 1773

Great Britain Invades Egypt; Egypt as a British Veiled Protectorate

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

The Ottomans Enter World War I; the Sinai-Palestine Front

1 November 1914 - 4 February 1915

Start of the Arab Revolt Against the Ottomans

Palestine Gendarmerie Is Established

1 July 1921 - 24 April 1922

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

MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

The Knesset Adopts the Entry into Israel Law

Israel's Construction of the "National Water Carrier"

2 September 1953

Arab Information Center (AIC) Is Opened in New York

Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez

Situation on Jordanian-Israeli Lines Continues to Deteriorate; Israeli Raid on Qalqilya

4 October 1956 - 11 October 1956

Britain and France Join the War

31 October 1956

Israel's Strike Against Syria

31 January 1960 - 15 February 1960

June War, 4th Day

PFLP Hijack Operations

6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970

Black September in Jordan

15 September 1970 - 25 September 1970

Wasfi al-Tal, Jordan's Prime Minister, Is Assassinated by Black September Members in Cairo

28 November 1971

Black September Hijack Operation

Black September in Munich Olympic Games

5 September 1972 - 6 September 1972

Black September Hijack Operation

29 October 1972 - 30 October 1972

Black September Operation in Khartoum

1 March 1973 - 4 March 1973

Assassination of Abdul Hamid Shibli and Abdul Hadi Nakaa in Rome

Mohammad Boudia Assassinated in Paris

Palestinian Operations in Northern Israel

Encirclement of Beirut

11 June 1982 - 20 June 1982

Israeli Raid on Palestinian Base South of Beirut; Ahmad Jibril Is Targeted

9 December 1988

Operation Bronze and Escalation

7 March 2001 - 16 May 2001

US and Palestinian Efforts to Stop Israeli Escalation

12 September 2001 - 16 October 2001

Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan

James Wolfensohn Appointed to Follow Economic-Related Disengagement Matters

14 April 2005 - 20 June 2005

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

15 August 2005 - 12 September 2005

Disengagement: Israeli-Egyptian Protocol on Gaza-Egypt Border

1 September 2005 - 12 September 2005

Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains

28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006

Gaza: Military Confrontation Continues and Siege is Tightened

26 March 2008 - 15 May 2008

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

16 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 21

16 January 2009

Western Powers Adopt a Program of Action Against Weapons Smuggling into Gaza

Hamas's Khalid Mishal Visits the Gaza Strip

8 December 2012

Trilateral Agreement for a Red Sea-Dead Sea Link

9 December 2013

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 1

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 11 and 12

18 July 2014 - 19 July 2014

28th Arab Summit Meets at the Dead Sea

Hamas New Charter

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

18 December 2017

Israeli PM Netanyahu Pledges to Annex Parts of the West Bank if Reelected

10 September 2019 - 6 December 2019

Leading Human Rights Groups Deem Israel an Apartheid State

12 January 2021 - 27 April 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 4

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Yahya al-Sinwar

19 October 1962 - 17 October 2024

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Palin Commission Report

Franco-British Convention on Mandate Boundaries

23 December 1920

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Council of the League of Nations: Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

16 September 1922

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 November 1938

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1946

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNSCOP Majority Proposal: Partition Plan

3 September 1947

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Text of Plan Dalet (Plan D): General Section

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1948

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

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

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

UNSC Resolution 95

1 September 1951

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

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

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt

18 January 1974

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3237 (XXIX)

22 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

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

17 September 1978

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut

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

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

13 September 1993

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

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

Palestinian Response to President Clinton Proposals

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States Regarding Prevention of the Supply of Arms and Related Materiel to Terrorist Groups

16 January 2009

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

President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

25 September 2009

Understanding Regarding Ceasefire in Gaza Strip

21 November 2012

HRC Resolution S-21/1

Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

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

30 September 2015

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

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

28 February 2019

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

12 January 2021

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

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to HRC

Historical Media

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

2 November 1932

Death of The Shepherd Boy Fathi, Third Wave of Killing

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

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

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Marka (Hittin) Refugee Camp

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

The Bosnians of Palestine

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

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

Zarqa Refugee Camp

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places

al-Ras al-Ahmar

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

Khirbat al-Manara

Khirbat al-Muntar