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Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1875 - 9 February 1949

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

1885 - 19 December 1953

Mu‘in al-Madi

George Antonius

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1929 - 2 June 2016

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1942 - 6 August 2019

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Growth

1860 - 1948

Events

Foundation of Tel Aviv

Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

23 July 1937 - September 1938

The "International Parliamentarian Congress of Arab and Islamic Countries in Support of Palestine" Is Held in Cairo

7 October 1938 - 11 October 1938

Stern Gang Calls for Alliance with Axis

British Break Arab Attacks

6 February 1948 - 10 February 1948

Fate of Diplomatic Representations in Jerusalem

11 February 1948 - 1 May 1948

The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings

4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948

Fighting Around Jerusalem

12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948

Operation Jevussi for the Conquest of Jerusalem

26 April 1948 - 30 April 1948

Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area

8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948

Operations Shfifon and Kilshon in Jerusalem

14 May 1948 - 28 May 1948

Arab States Explain Reasons for their Intervention in Palestine

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

France and Israel Sign Arms Deal and Prepare for War

22 June 1956 - 29 July 1956

Israel Razes Maghribi Quarter in Jerusalem Old City and Expels its Inhabitants

Israel Land Requisition in Old City of Jerusalem

Emergency Arab Summit Meets in Cairo to Force a Palestinian-Jordanian Agreement

21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970

Start of Civil War in Lebanon

13 April 1975 - 2 September 1982

UNGA 3379 (XXX): Determining that Zionism is a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination

10 November 1975

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

16 October 1976 - 18 October 1976

Severe Israeli-Palestinian Clashes in Lebanon

10 July 1981 - 20 July 1981

Several Israeli Attempts to Assassinate Yasir Arafat During Invasion of Lebanon

15 June 1982 - 30 August 1982

Tension in Hebron

1 July 1983 - 30 July 1983

Palestinian Internal Polarization

27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984

Fatah-Democratic Alliance Precarious Reconciliation

27 June 1984 - 2 September 1984

17th Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Palestinian National Salvation Front Is Formed in Damascus

Elections in Gaza Professional Unions

21 February 1987

Tunnel Opened by Israel in Old City, Jerusalem; Palestinian-Israeli Clashes

24 September 1996 - 28 September 1996

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

Failure of Final Status Talks at Camp David Summit

11 July 2000 - 25 July 2000

US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes

4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000

Israel's "Efforts" to Provoke Escalation

4 July 2001 - 14 August 2001

Birth of the Middle East "Quartet"

Yasir Arafat in the Line of Fire

4 September 2003 - 30 September 2003

Palestinian Peace Gestures

1 December 2003 - 7 January 2004

Assassination of Ahmad Yasin in Gaza City

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

Israel’s Campaign Against Non-ID Holders in the West Bank

1 April 2006 - 6 September 2006

Fourth Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City

Hamas Seizes Control of Gaza

10 June 2007 - 16 June 2007

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Israeli's Security Demands

28 February 2008 - 11 May 2008

Hamas and Israel Agree on a Six-Month Gaza Cease-Fire; Blockade Marginally Eased

17 June 2008 - 4 November 2008

War on Gaza, Day 14

Israel's Demolition and Eviction Orders Increase in East Jerusalem

2 August 2009 - 9 November 2009

Amid US Pressure for Direct Talks, Provocative Settlement Measures Continue

29 July 2010 - 15 August 2010

The Knesset passes the Law on Disclosure Requirements for Recipients of Support from a Foreign State Entity

Surge in Settlement Expansion

30 November 2012 - 10 February 2013

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 6−8

13 July 2014 - 15 July 2014

Smaller-Scale Palestinian-Israeli Violence and Israeli Repression Continue

1 January 2016 - 30 June 2016

Historical Texts

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Palin Commission Report

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

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

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

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

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

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Basic Law of the PLO

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution

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

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3379 (XXX)

10 November 1975

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

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

8 December 1977

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/229

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

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

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

27 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

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

Israel and the Road Map

23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-18

23 January 2009

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 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

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Historical Media

Zionist Terrorism

29 December 1947

al-Manshiyya Quarter

Scenes of Destruction

Highlights

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

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

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

III. Late Mandate

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

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

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

Lebanon War, 1982

A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

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

The Israeli Military

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

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

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

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

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

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp