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Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1865 - 3 March 1948

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

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

1882 - 22 April 1942

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

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

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

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

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

1905 - 21 May 1985

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1936 - 3 August 1978

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

1962 - 31 July 2024

Events

1st Zionist Congress in Basel Calls for a Jewish Home in Palestine

29 August 1897 - 31 August 1897

2nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

28 August 1898 - 31 August 1898

3rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

15 August 1899 - 18 August 1899

8th Zionist Congress Is Held in the Hague

14 July 1907 - 21 July 1907

The Zionist Organization Opens an Office in Jaffa

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

Treaty of Versailles; Establishment of the League of Nations

28 June 1919 - 10 January 1920

San Remo Conference: Distributions of Mandates

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

International Zionist Conference Meets in London

French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

14 July 1920 - 31 August 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

13th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

6 August 1923 - 18 August 1923

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

14th Zionist Congress Is Held in Vienna

18 August 1925 - 31 August 1925

15th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

30 August 1927 - 11 September 1927

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

General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa

11 January 1930

John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development

A Conference in Nablus Debates Resorting to Arms

Challenging the Pan-Islamic Congress, a Conference of the Palestinian Islamic Nation Is Convened

11 December 1931

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

13 December 1931

Establishment of the Istiqlal Party

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

19th Zionist Congress Meets in Lucerne

20 August 1935 - 4 September 1935

Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936

Start of General Strike and Armed Resistance

7 May 1936 - 31 May 1936

20th Zionist Congress Meets in Zürich

3 August 1937 - 16 August 1937

Arab National Congress Convenes in Bludan

8 September 1937 - 9 September 1937

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

Wave of Irgun Attacks against Palestinians

2 June 1939 - 1 August 1939

21st Zionist Congress Meets in Geneva

16 August 1939 - 25 August 1939

Zionist Biltmore Conference Is Held in New York

6 May 1942 - 11 May 1942

Five-year Limit on Jewish Immigration Extended

Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British

January 1944 - March 1944

Pact of the League of Arab States; Annex on Palestine

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism

1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945

Arab League Meets in Bludan and Supervises the Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

8 June 1946 - 12 June 1946

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

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

Round Table Conference on Palestine Held in London

10 September 1946 - 3 October 1946

Arab Delegations Put Forward Constitutional Proposals to the London Round Table Conference on Palestine

30 September 1946

London Round Table Conference Reopens and Fails

27 January 1947 - 18 February 1947

Arab League Meeting on Palestine in Aley, Lebanon

7 October 1947 - 15 October 1947

Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Israel's Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance

16 September 1948

Pro-Jordanian Amman Conference

Pro-Jordanian Jericho Conference

1 December 1948 - 28 December 1948

General Refugee Congress Meets in Ramallah

UNCCP Convenes the Lausanne Conference

27 April 1949 - 12 September 1949

23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951

General Islamic Conference on Jerusalem, Jerusalem

3 December 1953 - 9 December 1953

24th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

24 April 1956 - 7 May 1956

London Conference on Suez

16 August 1956 - 23 August 1956

25th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

27 December 1960 - 11 January 1961

1st Arab Summit Meets in Cairo, Deals with Israeli Diversion of the Jordan River

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Yasir Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir Confer with Premier Chou-En-Lai in China

27th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

9 June 1968 - 19 June 1968

Fatah Reaffirms its Political Objective

28 January 1969

28th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

18 January 1972 - 28 January 1972

The PFLP Announces It Has Abandoned the Tactic of Hijacking Planes

Opening of an Arab-Israeli Peace Conference in Geneva

21 December 1973

UNGA 3237 (XXIX): Granting the PLO an Observer Status at the General Assembly

22 November 1974

Negotiations for Sinai II Fail

7 March 1975 - 22 March 1975

The PLO at the Security Council

4 December 1975

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

Six-Party Arab Summit in Riyadh on Palestinian-Syrian Ceasefire in Lebanon

16 October 1976 - 18 October 1976

Municipalities in the West Bank and Gaza Affirm the PLO Program in a Message to the US and USSR

Israel's Conditions for Geneva Conference

25 September 1977

Joint US-Soviet Statement on Geneva Conference

US Steps Back from the US-Soviet Statement on the Geneva Conference

9th Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad and Condemns the Camp David Accords

5 November 1978

SC Res. 465: Calling on Israel to Dismantle Settlements and Cease Constructing, Planning New Ones

Fahd Plan Is Announced

UNGA 38/58: Calling for the Convening of an International Peace Conference on the Middle East

13 December 1983

S-G Report (A/39/130-S/16409), Pursuant to UNGA Res. 38/58 on ME Peace Conference

Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

11 February 1985 - 22 February 1985

PLO Executive on Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

18 February 1985

Hussein-Peres London Secret Agreement

18th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers: Restoration of Unity

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

The Palestinians' 14 Demands

14 January 1988

Resumption of Diplomatic Activity

30 January 1988 - 10 February 1988

US Secretary of State Shultz Negotiations Plan

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Algiers

7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988

19th Palestine National Council Meets in Algiers and Proclaims the Palestinian State

12 November 1988 - 15 November 1988

Arafat addresses the UN General Assembly in Geneva

13 December 1988 - 14 December 1988

Start of US-PLO Dialogue

14 December 1988

The PLO Executive Committee Rejects Israel's Peace Initiative

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Casablanca

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

China's Five-Point Proposal on Middle East Peace

21 September 1989

Responses to the Baker Five-Point Plan

16 October 1989 - 18 December 1989

Palestinian Response to the Invasion of Kuwait

3 August 1990 - 17 January 1991

Statement S/22027 by SC President on Palestinian Legitimate Political Rights and International Conference

20 December 1990

Secretary Baker First Stage Diplomacy

9 March 1991 - 22 May 1991

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

1 June 1991 - 14 July 1991

Secretary Baker Second Stage Diplomacy

21 July 1991 - 13 October 1991

US-Soviet Joint Statement on the Middle East, Moscow

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

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

17 October 1991

US-Soviet Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference

18 October 1991

The Madrid Peace Conference

30 October 1991 - 2 November 1991

Conference on Multilateral Peace Talks, Moscow

28 January 1992 - 29 January 1992

4th Negotiation Round, Washington

24 February 1992 - 4 March 1992

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Clinton - Netanyahu - Arafat - Hussein Meeting in Washington

1 October 1996 - 2 October 1996

UNGA ES-10/3: Emphasizing Personal Responsibilities Arising from Grave Breaches of Geneva Convention

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

UNGA Res. ES-10/6: Recommending Holding a Conference to Enforce the 4th Geneva Convention in the OPT

9 February 1999

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Affirms its Applicability to the OPT

UNGA Res. ES-10/7: Expresses Concern over Israeli-Palestinian Clashes and Respect for 4th Geneva Convention

20 October 2000

UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban

31 August 2001 - 8 September 2001

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

5 December 2001

US Response to the Israeli Invasion

4 April 2002 - 17 April 2002

London Meeting on Supporting the Palestinian Authority

Palestinian Dialogue Conference Held in Cairo

15 March 2005 - 17 March 2005

17th Arab Summit Meets in Algiers

22 March 2005 - 23 March 2005

Bush's Policy Speech and Call for an International Conference

Abbas-Olmert Meetings to Reach Understandings Before the International Conference

6 August 2007 - 10 September 2007

Palestinian and Israeli Teams to Prepare Annapolis International Conference

20 September 2007 - 25 November 2007

The Annapolis Conference Opens a New Round of Palestinian-Israeli Talks

27 November 2007

Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa

4 December 2007

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Bad Start

12 December 2007 - 27 December 2007

The Quartet Expresses "Concern" over Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa Expansion

17 December 2007

Donors' Conference in Paris Supports Abbas's PA; PEGASE to Replace TIM

17 December 2007 - 1 February 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: A Disappointing Abbas-Bush Meeting

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status to Nowhere

27 May 2008 - 30 August 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Olmert's Political Gamble

31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008

Donor Conference for Gaza Reconstruction, Sharm al-Shaykh

Fatah Sixth General Conference Is Held in Bethlehem

4 August 2009 - 8 August 2009

Fatah Sixth General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

8 August 2009 - 11 August 2009

UNGA Res. 64/10: Endorsing the Goldstone Report and Calling Upon both Sides to Investigate the Violations Reported in it

5 November 2009

The State of Palestine Becomes Full Member of the UNESCO

5 October 2011 - 31 October 2011

Palestinian Reconciliation Meetings in Cairo

20 December 2011 - 22 December 2011

US President Barack Obama Visits Israel and Bethlehem and Ramallah

20 March 2013 - 21 March 2013

Kerry's Shuttle Diplomacy for the Resumption of Talks Intensifies and Apparently Succeeds

23 May 2013 - 19 July 2013

Aim of Talks Is No Longer a Comprehensive Agreement but a Framework Agreement

14 November 2013 - 31 January 2014

A PLO-Hamas Agreement (the Shati' Agreement) to Form a Conciliation Cabinet

UNHRC Res. A/HRC/RES/S-21/1: Condemning Israel's Assault on Gaza, Dispatching Commission of Inquiry

International Donor Conference for Gaza Reconstruction

12 October 2014

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Addresses the 2014 Gaza War

17 December 2014

26th Arab Summit Meets in Sharm al-Shaykh

28 March 2015 - 29 March 2015

France Plans to Resume its Peace Initiative

29 January 2016 - 16 February 2016

To Satisfy Israel, France Backpedals on an Important Component of its Peace Initiative

9 March 2016 - 23 May 2016

France Hosts a Ministerial Meeting as First Stage of its Peace Initiative

27th Arab Summit Meets in Nouakchott

The Convening of Fatah's 7th General Conference Is Announced in Effort to Consolidate Abbas's Leadership

1 November 2016

Fatah Seventh General Conference Is Held in Ramallah

29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016

Fatah Seventh General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

4 December 2016

Paris Conference for Peace in the Middle East

15 January 2017 - 16 January 2017

Trump's Ambiguous Statement on Palestinian-Israeli Issues after his First Meeting as President with Netanyahu

15 February 2017

Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad Meets in Istanbul

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

President Mahmoud Abbas Presents Palestinian Peace Plan to Security Council

20 February 2018

International Community Alleviates Some of the UNRWA's Financial Crisis

PA Requests Membership of International Treaties and Conventions in Response to US Embassy Move

24 March 2018 - 6 June 2018

Warsaw Conference

13 February 2019 - 14 February 2019

Russian Effort on Reconciliation Fails and Hamas-Fatah Relations Further Deteriorate

13 February 2019 - 17 February 2019

US ‘Peace to Prosperity’ Plan and Conference

22 June 2019 - 26 June 2019

Formation of the Munich Group

15 February 2020 - 24 September 2020

After Threats of Annexation, Normalization Reignites Palestinian Reconciliation Talks

3 September 2020 - 24 September 2020

Historical Texts

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

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

San Remo Conference Resolutions: Syria, Mesopotamia [Iraq], Palestine Mandates

Palin Commission Report

The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

Churchill White Paper

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

Statement of the Arab National Conference (in Arabic)

13 December 1931

The Murison Commission Report

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

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on the Occasion of the Entry of the Arab Armies in Palestine

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

Resolutions of the Jericho Conference on Palestinian-Jordanian Unity (in Arabic)

1 December 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

UNSC Resolution 101

24 November 1953

Prevention of Infiltration (Offences and Jurisdiction) Law 1954 (5714)

First Arab Summit: Statement

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Basic Law of the PLO

Fourth Arab Summit: Resolutions

1 September 1967

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

UNGA Resolution 2443 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

UNGA Resolution 2649 (XXV)

30 November 1970

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

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt

18 January 1974

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria

PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)

Seventh Arab Summit: The Palestine Resolution

29 October 1974

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3237 (XXIX)

22 November 1974

Memorandum of Agreement between the U.S. and Israel Regarding the Reconvening of the Geneva Conference

1 September 1975

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3379 (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 11940

23 January 1976

Eighth Arab Summit: Statement

25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

Joint US-USSR Communiqué on Reconvening the Geneva Conference on the Middle East

Israel-U.S. Working Paper on the Resumption of the Geneva Peace Conference

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14985

Twelfth Arab Summit: the Fez Initiative

9 September 1982

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

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

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

11 February 1985

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17769

29 January 1986

The London Agreement

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1987: Resolutions

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

The Shultz Negotiations Plan

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

UNGA Resolution 43/160

9 December 1988

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

13 December 1988

Press Conference Statement of Yasir Arafat Clarifying His Speech Before the UN General Assembly

14 December 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

Draft of UNGA Resolution A/44/L.50

29 November 1989

PLO “Assumptions” with Regard to Baker's Five Points

1 December 1989

Egypt's "Assumptions" with Regard to Baker's Five Points

5 December 1989

Note by the S.C. President: On the International Conference for Peace in the Middle East

20 December 1990

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. 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

U.S. Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians

18 October 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

U.S.-Soviet Letter of Invitation to Peace Talks in Madrid

18 October 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

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

UNGA Resolution ES-10/3

UNGA Resolution 52/250

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

UNGA Resolution ES-10/7

20 October 2000

The Mitchell Report

Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire Plan)

The Durban Declaration

8 September 2001

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

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

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

Palestinian Dialogue Conference (in Arabic)

National Conciliation Document

Joint Understanding Between Israel and the PLO Read by President Bush

27 November 2007

Final Statement of the Palestinian National Conference (in Arabic)

25 January 2008

UNSC Resolution 1850

16 December 2008

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Fatah Sixth General Conference: Political Program (in Arabic)

Fatah Sixth General Conference: Five Points of Clarification on Political Program

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

25 September 2009

UNGA Resolution 64/10

1 December 2009

Statement by Middle East Quartet

23 September 2011

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

HRC Resolution S-21/1

Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Declaration

17 December 2014

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2014/916

30 December 2014

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

Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

Middle East Peace initiative: Joint Communiqué

Fatah's 7th General Conference: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

Middle East Peace Conference Joint Declaration

15 January 2017

Closing Statement of the Popular Conference for the Palestinians Abroad (in Arabic)

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

Twenty-Ninth Arab Summit (The Jerusalem Summit): Dhahran Declaration

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

UNGA Resolution 73/5

16 October 2018

Historical Media

London Conference

Land in Jewish Possession (1944)

31 December 1944

Palestine: A Homeland Denied

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

III. Late Mandate

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

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

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Palestinian Emigration (I)

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

I. Ottoman Rule

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

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

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

British and International Commissions of Inquiry in Mandate Palestine

1919 - 1946

Thematic Chronology

Arab Summits and Palestine

1946 - present

Thematic Chronology

The Annapolis Negotiation Rounds

2007 - 2008

Periods

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations