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Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine

October 1831 - 1834

Establishment of European and American Consulates in Jerusalem

International Intervention against Egyptian Rule in the Levant

Ottoman Law of the Provinces: Administrative Reorganization in Syria and Palestine

7 November 1864

Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt

European Powers Press the Ottomans on Jewish Immigration

2 March 1888 - 4 October 1888

Building of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad Line

31 March 1890 - 26 September 1892

Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony

3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909

Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris

The Arab Congress Meets in Paris

17 June 1913 - 24 June 1913

Formation of the Covenant Society in Istanbul

28 October 1913

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Prelude to the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)

The Russian Revolution; Sykes-Picot Agreement Is Published

8 March 1917 - 23 November 1917

British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan

21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

Opening of the Paris Peace Conference

18 January 1919

1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919

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

San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates

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

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

12th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

1 September 1921 - 14 September 1921

House of Lords and House of Commons Conflicting Views on Palestine

20 June 1922 - 4 July 1922

The League of Nations Confirms Britain’s Mandate over Palestine

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

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

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

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

Land Settlement Ordinance No. 9

Islamic Conference in Defense of al-Buraq and Muslim Holy Places in Jerusalem

1 November 1928

16th Zionist Congress Is Held in Zurich

28 July 1929 - 11 August 1929

MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

13 February 1931

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

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

Increase in Jewish Immigration from Germany

Establishment of the National Defense Party

2 December 1934

The British Issue the Press Ordinance

17 January 1935

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

12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935

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

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Fawzi al-Qawuqji Aids the Great Palestine Rebellion

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

30 September 1936

Peel Commission Investigates the Cause of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

11 November 1936 - 24 January 1937

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

18 March 1937 - 24 March 1937

Avner Defense Plan

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

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

Third Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

October 1938 - September 1939

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

MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians

17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939

Outbreak of World War II

1 September 1939

Five-year Limit on Jewish Immigration Extended

British Recommend Partition

Labor Victory in Great Britain

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN

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 Meets in Bludan and Reacts to the Recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

8 June 1946 - 12 June 1946

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

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

Great Britain Refers the question of Palestine to the UN

British to Terminate Palestine Mandate

26 September 1947

Great Britain Announces Termination Date of its Mandate over Palestine

11 December 1947

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

Zionist Leadership Decides to Proclaim Jewish State on 16 May

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

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Jordan Undertakes Legislative Steps Aiming at Integrating the West Bank

16 March 1949 - 1 December 1949

Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)

24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949

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

Tripartite Declaration

Israel and the Lavon Affair

July 1954 - 17 February 1955

24 February 1955

Egyptian-Czech Arms Deal

27 September 1955

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

London Conference on Suez

16 August 1956 - 23 August 1956

Britain, France, and Israel Sign the Protocol of Sèvres

22 October 1956 - 24 October 1956

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

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

7 November 1956

Israel Addresses the Future of Sinai

7 November 1956 - 8 November 1956

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

1 March 1985 - 1 September 1985

Mass Emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel Is Triggered

1 October 1989 - 14 January 1990

Suicide Bombings in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

25 February 1996 - 4 March 1996

Israel's Position on Further Redeployment and on Palestinian Obligations

23 November 1997 - 14 January 1998

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Affirms Responsibility of all Contracting Parties in Ensuring its Respect

5 December 2001

Invasion of Nablus: Fierce Resistance

3 April 2002 - 21 April 2002

The Knesset Adopts the “Criminal Procedure Law (Interrogating Suspects)"

26 June 2002 - 12 December 2016

US formally Presents Israel and the PA with the Road Map

Heightened Violence Despite Diplomacy

1 May 2003 - 29 June 2003

35th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

19 June 2006 - 22 June 2006

War on Gaza: Calls for Active Diplomacy

4 January 2009 - 5 January 2009

SC Res. 1860: Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire and Arrangements to Prevent Arms Trafficking

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

US-Israel Disagreement Over the Settlements Freeze

26 June 2009 - 28 July 2009

US Offers Ambiguous Assurances to the Palestinians

20 April 2010 - 21 April 2010

Israel Announces Easing of Gaza Blockade

8 June 2010 - 5 July 2010

The Palestinian State: Recognition and Upgrade Drive, Mostly in Latin and Central America and Europe

1 December 2010 - 19 January 2012

Al Jazeera Satellite TV and the Guardian Release the Palestine Papers

23 January 2011

The State of Palestine Becomes Full Member of the UNESCO

5 October 2011 - 31 October 2011

China's Four-Point Proposal for Settlement of Palestinian Question

French Efforts in Favor of a Draft UNSC Resolution on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

2 December 2014 - 17 December 2014

Paris Conference for Peace in the Middle East

15 January 2017 - 16 January 2017

International Response to Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters

30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018

The Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip

30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018

UN Human Rights Council Establishes Commission into Israel’s Attacks on the Great March of Return Protesters

Airstrikes and Rockets in Wake of Casualties during Great March of Return Protest

26 May 2018 - 20 August 2018

Draft SC Res. S/2018/516 Calling for the Protection of Palestinian Civilians Vetoed by the US

Talks for a Long-Term Gaza Cease-Fire

7 August 2018 - 10 November 2018

Israel Continues to Attack Great March of Return Protesters

17 October 2018 - 1 November 2018

UNHRC Report on Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters

28 February 2019

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

22 March 2019 - 29 March 2019

Great March of Return Anniversary and Land Day

29 March 2019 - 30 March 2019

Great March of Return Organizers Suspend Weekly Protests

26 December 2019 - 27 December 2019

Great Britain Designates Hamas’s Political Wing as a Terrorist Organization

19 November 2021 - 26 November 2021

Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Freih Abu Middein

1875 - 9 February 1949

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

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1882 - 22 April 1942

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

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

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

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

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

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

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1962 - 31 July 2024

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem

11 December 1917

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

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

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

Churchill White Paper

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929

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

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

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

Biltmore Conference Declaration

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

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

UNSC Resolution 50

UNGA Resolution 212 (III)

19 November 1948

UNSC Resolution 69

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

UNGA Resolution 303

9 December 1949

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 1950

UNGA Resolution 997 (ES-I)

2 November 1956

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Draft of UNSC Resolution 5407

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Draft of UNSC Resolution 7575/Rev.1

3 November 1966

Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East

UNGA Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestine National (watani) Charter

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Final Statement

30 May 1970 - 4 June 1970

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

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

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

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)

10 November 1975

Security Council Decision Inviting the PLO to Participate in its Debate on the Situation in the Middle East

4 December 1975

Draft of UNSC Resolution 11898

5 December 1975

Draft of UNSC Resolution 11940

23 January 1976

The Koenig Memorandum

Draft of UNSC Resolution 12022

Draft of UNSC Resolution 12119

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

PLO Central Council, Statement on Sadat's Visit to Israel

30 November 1977

Statement by Palestinian Institutions in the Occupied Territories on Sadat’s Visit to Israel

8 December 1977

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

17 September 1978

UNSC Resolution 446

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

Sadat’s Letter to Begin Following Israel’s Enactment of Basic Law on Jerusalem

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14832/Rev.1

19 January 1982

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14943

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15185

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15255/Rev.2

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

7 February 1983

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15895

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17459

12 September 1985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17769

29 January 1986

The London Agreement

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

Secretary of State George Shultz: A Statement for Palestinians

26 February 1988

UNGA Resolution 42/229

UNGA Resolution 42/230

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780

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

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

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

13 December 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20463

17 February 1989

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20945/Rev.1

6 November 1989

Draft of UNSC Resolution 21326

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

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Shimon Peres's Letter Concerning Reassurances on Palestinian Institutions in Jerusalem

11 October 1993

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1995/394

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

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/199

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/241

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

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

The Mitchell Report

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

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

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

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

25 September 2009

President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy

Statement by Middle East Quartet

23 September 2011

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

China's Four-Point Proposal for Settlement of Palestinian Question

Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Declaration

17 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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

China’s Four-Point Proposal on Promoting the Settlement of the Palestinian Issue

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

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

1 November 2017

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

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

20 December 2019

Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates

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

HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

Historical Media

Arab Revolt in Aqaba

Arrival in Palestine of Sir Hebert Samuel, High Commissioner

Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party

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

2 November 1932

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli 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

III. Late Mandate

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

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

Palestinian Emigration (I)

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

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

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

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

The Israeli Military

The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun 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)

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Marka Refugee Camp

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

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

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Sbeineh 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

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

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

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

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

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks

The Bosnians of Palestine

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Palestinian National Congresses

1918 - 1934

Periods

I. Ottoman Rule