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Historical Media

Looking Toward Marj Ibn Amir

The First Arab Delegation in London to Protest the Balfour Declaration

Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party

Arab League Warnings

Biographies

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Freih Abu Middein

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

1910 - 26 February 1971

Anwar Nusseibeh

1913 - 22 November 1986

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

1934 - 14 September 2021

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

1936 - 29 August 1987

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

1938 - 16 December 2020

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Historical Texts

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

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22

10 January 1920

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 Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

British-French Demarcation of Line Between Syria and Palestine

Report of the British - International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall

1 December 1930

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

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 Commission) Report

9 November 1938

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Biltmore Conference Declaration

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1946

Assembly of the League of Nations Resolution on Mandates

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

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

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

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Fourth Arab Summit: Resolutions

1 September 1967

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National (watani) Charter

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Final Statement

30 May 1970 - 4 June 1970

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

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: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

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

30 November 1977

Begin's Autonomy Plan

28 December 1977

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

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

1 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Cairo Declaration on the PLO and Terrorism as read by PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat

7 November 1985

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

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

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Israeli Cabinet Decision on the Five-Point Plan of Secretary Baker

5 November 1989

President George Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress on the Middle East

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

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

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

28 September 1995

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Palestinian Response to President Clinton Proposals

The Mitchell Report

The Quartet (UN, EU, Russia, US) Communiqué on the Situation in the Occupied Territories

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

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

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

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

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

HRC Resolution S-21/1

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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons

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

30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration

Abraham Accords: Treaty of Peace Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel

15 September 2020

The Dignity and Hope Manifesto: The Unity Intifada

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

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

US-Israel Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership

Joe Biden’s Statement Before Mahmoud Abbas

Events

The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant

10 January 1920

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

10 December 1936

The Palestine Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

British and French Troops Invade Canal Zone

5 November 1956

First Communiqué of Fatah to the World Press in English and Arabic

6th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

1 September 1969 - 9 September 1969

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

25 June 1979 - 26 June 1979

Palestinian Mayors Stand with Those Dismissed by Israel

Palestinians Hijack an Israeli Bus Toward Gaza

Anti-Israeli Attacks and Inter-Palestinian Tension

2 April 1995 - 19 April 1995

UNGA Res. 52/250: Granting Palestine Additional Rights and Privileges at the GA

President Clinton's Visit to Gaza

14 December 1998

Abbas-Sharon Summit in Sharm al-Shaykh

8 February 2005

Assassination of Shadi Suhail Muhanna and Muhammad Ahmad Kandeel in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

27 October 2005

US-Israel Plan to Destabilize a Hamas-Led PA

17 February 2006 - 19 February 2006

International Responses to Palestinian Unity Efforts

2 February 2007 - 19 February 2007

War on Gaza, Day 5

31 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 14

War on Gaza, Day 18

13 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 19: Hamas Cease-Fire Offer

14 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 20

15 January 2009

Fate of the Palestinian UN Admission Request

28 September 2011 - 8 November 2011

US Legislation Against Palestinian Full UN Membership

23 December 2011

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 5

18 November 2012

The 2014 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet

26th Arab Summit Meets in Sharm al-Shaykh

28 March 2015 - 29 March 2015

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

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

14 January 2018 - 6 February 2018

Israel Begins Public Normalization Push

20 January 2019

Trump Administration Presents Peace Plan

28 January 2020

US Peace Plan – Palestinian and International Reactions

28 January 2020 - 11 February 2020

Hanan Ashrawi Resigns from PLO Executive Committee

9 December 2020

The May 2021 Gaza War

10 May 2021 - 21 May 2021

Highlights

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Photographers Before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

The Israeli Military

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

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Fawwar Refugee Camp

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

Canada and the Palestine Question

Israel First, Palestinians Second

Jerash Refugee Camp (Gaza Camp)

Zarqa Refugee Camp

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

Yugoslavia and the Palestine Question

Non-Aligned Support, Eroded by Decline and Breakup

Periods

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

Places

al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya

al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya

al-Shaykh Muwannis

Balad al-Shaykh

Bayt Umm al-Mays

Bayyarat Hannun

Daliyat al-Rawha'

Dayr Abu Salama

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

Khirbat al-'Umur

Khirbat al-Burj

Khirbat al-Buwayra

Khirbat al-Duhayriyya

Khirbat al-Jawfa

Khirbat al-Manara

Khirbat al-Shuna

Khirbat al-Tannur

Khirbat Karraza

Khirbat Umm Burj

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

The May 2021 Gaza War

2021