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Biographies

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

1927 - 13 January 2005

1929 - 2 June 2016

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Events

Theodor Herzl Dies; Replaced by David Wolffsohn

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

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

10 December 1936

Zionist Biltmore Conference Is Held in New York

6 May 1942 - 11 May 1942

Pledge to Buy US Armament for the Haganah

Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism

1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

Early Responses to Truce and Trusteeship Ideas

19 March 1948 - 20 March 1948

Zionist Leadership Decides to Proclaim Jewish State on 16 May

Israel Declares Jerusalem Occupied City

UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte Is Assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem

17 September 1948

Israel Establishes Military Government in Palestinian Areas

21 October 1948

Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"

January 1949 - December 1956

Elections in Israel

25 January 1949 - 14 February 1949

Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)

24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949

Israel and the Lavon Affair

July 1954 - 17 February 1955

With Mounting Tension In and Around Gaza, a Turning Point for Egypt and Opportunities for Israel

3 April 1955 - 27 September 1955

David Ben-Gurion Replaces Moshe Sharett as Prime Minister

3 November 1955

Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez

Israel Addresses the Future of Sinai

7 November 1956 - 8 November 1956

Israel Addresses the Future of Gaza

10 November 1956 - 3 February 1957

25th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

27 December 1960 - 11 January 1961

Camp David Summit; Camp David Accords

5 September 1978 - 17 September 1978

The PLO Executive Condemns the Camp David Accords

19 September 1978

Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Reject the Camp David Autonomy Plan

16 October 1978 - 4 November 1978

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

5 November 1978

14th Palestine National Council Is Held in Damascus

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

1st Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Beersheba

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

25 June 1979 - 26 June 1979

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

1 May 1980 - 7 May 1980

Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo

11 November 1981 - 12 November 1981

Reagan's Plan on the Palestinian Issue

1 September 1982

Israel Rejects the Reagan Plan

2 September 1982

Yasir Arafat in Tripoli, Lebanon, and then Cairo

16 September 1983 - 22 December 1983

Palestinians in the Occupied Territories Oppose Reactivating the Jordanian Parliament

23 January 1984

Palestinian Internal Polarization

27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984

17th Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

China and Israel Establish Diplomatic Relations

24 January 1992

Clinton Invites Arafat and Barak to a Summit in Camp David

3 July 2000 - 11 July 2000

Failure of Final Status Talks at Camp David Summit

11 July 2000 - 25 July 2000

Undermining the Talks and Preparing for their Failure: The Settlers and the Israeli Army

15 July 2000 - 8 August 2000

Attempts to Revive Final Status Talks

16 August 2000 - 28 September 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

9 September 2000 - 10 September 2000

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

21 January 2001 - 27 January 2001

Israel and the US Put Effective End to Peace Talks

7 February 2001 - 8 February 2001

US Offers Ambiguous Assurances to the Palestinians

20 April 2010 - 21 April 2010

Israel Once Again Links the Second-Stage Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion

29 October 2013 - 3 November 2013

US Officials Partake in Inauguration of Large-Scale Settler Project in East Jerusalem

US Peace Plan – Israeli Reaction

29 January 2020 - 9 February 2020

US Erases the 4-June Line

28 October 2020 - 19 November 2020

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

The Murison Commission Report

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

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

16 September 1948

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Israel Law of Return and its Amendments

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt

18 January 1974

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

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

17 September 1978

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

Joint Letter from President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin to President Carter Concerning Negotiations on Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 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

Statement of First National Festival of Palestinian Literature in the Occupied Land

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin

1 September 1982

Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal

2 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

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

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

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

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

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

5 November 1989

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

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 “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal For an Israeli-Palestinian Cease-Fire and Resumption of Negotiations

The Mitchell Report

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

President George W. Bush’s Speech Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

10 January 2008

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

25 September 2009

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

Basic Law: Israel - the Nation-State of the Jewish People

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

Lord Peel in Front of King David Hotel

Peel Commission and Partition

11 November 1936

British Troops Regain Control of Jerusalem's Old City

King David Hotel

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Zionist Operations Against the British Mandate Authorities

1944 - 1947

Thematic Chronology

Egyptian-Israeli Negotiation Rounds on Palestinian Autonomy

1977 - 1982

Thematic Chronology

Palestinian-Israeli Final Status Negotiation Rounds

1999 - 2001

Highlights

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

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

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

III. Late Mandate

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

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

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions