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Biographies

1880 - 16 June 1946

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

1939 - 19 August 2014

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Events

Great Britain Invades Egypt; Egypt as a British Veiled Protectorate

Foundation of Tel Aviv

Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front

21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918

May Day Clashes in Jaffa

1 May 1921 - 7 May 1921

Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936

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

10 December 1936

Irgun Attacks Against Palestinians Intensify

July 1938 - August 1938

Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British

January 1944 - March 1944

Establishment of Lebanese Consulate General in Palestine

30 December 1944 - 23 May 1945

Organized Irgun and Lehi Anti-British Attacks

24 November 1945 - 19 January 1946

An Irgun Attack on British

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

New Wave of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

9 September 1946 - 2 December 1946

More Irgun Operations Against the British

29 December 1946 - 28 January 1947

Continuation of Zionist-British Confrontation

16 April 1947 - 26 April 1947

Zionist Attacks Against Palestinians

21 May 1947 - 15 August 1947

Zionist Military Preparations

14 January 1948 - 20 February 1948

Arms for the Zionist Forces

1 April 1948 - 14 May 1948

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

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Control of Coastal Plain Haifa-Tel Aviv

13 May 1948 - 23 May 1948

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem

8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948

Israel Strengthens Its Political Control over Jerusalem; Military Government Dissolved

20 December 1948 - 17 February 1949

Israel's Measures to Make Jerusalem Its Capital

23 January 1950 - 13 July 1953

Israel's Foreign Ministry Moves to Jerusalem

10 July 1953 - 12 July 1953

Israeli-Syrian Aerial Battle

7 April 1967 - 21 April 1967

Civil Aviation in the Conflict

23 July 1968 - 29 August 1969

Black September Hijack Operation

Palestinian Operations from South Lebanon

5 March 1975 - 20 November 1975

Fatah Commando Operation and Israel's "Litani Operation"

11 March 1978 - 18 March 1978

Foreign Embassies Leave Jerusalem

20 August 1980 - September 1980

The US Administration Suspends Dialogue with the PLO

Suicide Bombing in Tel Aviv; Rabin and the National Separation Idea

19 October 1994

Suicide Bombings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

25 February 1996 - 4 March 1996

Palestinian Response to Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement Project

27 February 1997 - 10 April 1997

Failure to Reach a FAPS by 13 February 2000 Target Date

8 December 1999 - 6 February 2000

Israeli-Palestinian (Post-Stockholm) Back Channel

1 June 2000 - 3 June 2000

Attempts to Revive Final Status Talks

16 August 2000 - 28 September 2000

New Threshold Crossed with Suicide Bombing and Warplanes

18 May 2001 - 4 June 2001

Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

Israeli Operation Matter of Time; Siege on Arafat Tightened; Protests All Over Occupied Territories

18 September 2002 - 29 September 2002

Israel Unable to Quell Palestinian Attacks

10 October 2002 - 5 January 2003

Timing New Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Speech on Disengagement Plan

18 December 2003 - 31 January 2004

Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination

15 February 2005 - 30 April 2005

Israel Launches Operation Southern Arrow

30 March 2006 - 14 May 2006

Assassination of Ahmad Awad and Ramzi Shuhaybir in Gaza City

8 November 2006

Seal on Gaza Borders Tightened

5 November 2008 - 29 November 2008

Assassination of Zuhair al-Qaissi and Mahmoud Hanani in Gaza City

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza

14 November 2012 - 22 November 2012

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 1

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 4 and 5

11 July 2014 - 12 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 6−8

13 July 2014 - 15 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 9 and 10

16 July 2014 - 17 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 43

The 2014 Gaza War: Days 44-50

20 August 2014 - 26 August 2014

Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif

30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

In Retaliation to Palestinian Attacks, Yatta and Hebron Towns Are Collectively Targeted

8 June 2016 - 11 August 2016

Trump's Aides Seem Ready to Embark on Devising a Peace Plan

President Trump Announces the Official US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

The US Opens its Embassy in Jerusalem; Guatemala and Paraguay (Temporarily) Follow Suit

14 May 2018 - 15 May 2018

The Knesset Passes Basic Law: Israel the Nation-State of the Jewish People

19 July 2018 - 30 July 2018

The US Replaces its Consulate General in Jerusalem by a Palestinian Affairs Unit within its New Embassy

18 October 2018

Australia Recognizes West Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

15 December 2018

Israeli Violence Ahead of One-Year Anniversary of Great March of Return; Egyptian Restraint Efforts

22 March 2019 - 29 March 2019

Creeping Normalization

19 May 2020 - 25 June 2020

Four Countries to Open Embassies to Israel in Jerusalem

20 September 2020 - 2 December 2020

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

10 December 2020 - 14 December 2020

Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada

10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 2

Collective Punishment Against Jenin Following a Palestinian Attack in Tel Aviv

9 April 2022 - 17 April 2022

Charts

Document

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”, 1932, 1951 and 2015

1932 - 2015

Historical Texts

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

The Haganah: Plan Gimmel (Plan C): Section on Countermeasures

UNSCOP Majority Proposal: Partition Plan

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

Text of Plan Dalet (Plan D): General Section

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Israel: Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance No. 29 of 1948

16 September 1948

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut

7 February 1983

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

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

28 February 2019

Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

12 February 2020

Historical Media

Haganah in Jerusalem

We'll Meet In Tel Aviv!

Highlights

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

XIII. A Growingly Intractable Deadlock

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

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

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

Japan and the Palestine Question

A Policy still Subordinate to the US

Canada and the Palestine Question

Israel First, Palestinians Second

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Brazil and the Palestine Question

Competing Solidarities, Fluctuating Policies

Places

al-Shaykh Muwannis

Balad al-Shaykh

Khirbat Bayt Lid

Ghabat Kafr Sur

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

Khirbat al-Burj

Khirbat al-Shuna

Khirbat al-Zababida

Wadi al-Hawarith