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Thematic Chronology
1946 - 1949
Military Operations and Zionist Ethnic Cleansing

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Event
2009
US-Israel Disagreement Over the Settlements Freeze

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Event
1990
Security Council Resolutions S/RES/672 and S/RES/673

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Period
1936 to 1947
III. Second Mandate Period

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Event
1978
Security Council Resolution S/RES/425

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Event
1969
Security Council Resolution S/RES/267

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Event
2011
Draft Security Council Resolution S/2011/24

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Event
1974
GA Resolutions 3236 and 3237 (XXIX)

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Burning of the Rex Cinema

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Biography
Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

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Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad

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Event
1937
Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

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Thematic Chronology
1918 - 1934
Palestinian National Congresses

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Event
1948
Fighting Around Jerusalem

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Socio-Economic Colonization
Gaza City
Jerusalem
Palestine
Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

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Biography
Hanna Abu Hanna

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Thematic Chronology
1944 - 1947
Zionist Operations Against the British Mandate Authorities

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Biography
Ahmad Ismail Yasin

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Cultural
Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

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Biography
Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

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Biography
Leila Khaled

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Event
1936
General Strike Called Off

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Biography
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

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Event
1933 to 1935
Increase in Jewish Immigration from Germany

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Illegal Immigration (II)

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Event
2009
The Goldstone Report and Palestinian Erratic Decision-Making

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Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London

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Event
1967
Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly

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Period
1947 to 1950
IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

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Thematic Chronology
1996 - present
Elections Under the Palestinian Authority

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Peel Commission and Partition

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Event
2009
War on Gaza: Parallel Israeli and Hamas Cease-Fires; Balance Sheet

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Third Palestinian National Congress, Haifa

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Event
1956 to 1957
The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) Deploys in Sinai

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Thematic Chronology
1916 - 1946
British and International Commissions of Inquiry in Mandate Palestine

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Event
2006
General Assembly Resolution A/RES/ES-10/17

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Palestine: A Homeland Denied

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King David Hotel

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Biography
Salma Khadra Jayyusi

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Event
1948
US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition

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Period
1987 to 1993
IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

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Event
1946
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

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Event
1923
6th Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jaffa

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Story
The road to the 1936 revolt

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Biography
Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

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Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi

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Event
1949
UN Conciliation Commission on Palestine Convenes the Lausanne Conference

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Period
1917 to 1936
II. Early Mandate Period

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Story
Casting terror

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Event
2007
International Responses to Palestinian Unity Efforts

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Thematic Chronology
1991 - 1999
Palestinian-Israeli Interim Negotiation Rounds

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Biography
Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

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Event
2011
Despite US, European, and Arab Pressure, Abbas Submits a Request for Full UN Membership

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Event
1936 to 1937
First Phase of the Great Arab Revolt

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Event
1988
19th Palestine National Council Meets in Algiers and Proclaims the Palestinian State

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Story
The song that inspired the Arab world

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Event
1947
General Assembly Resolution 106 (S -1)

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Event
1930
Establishment of the Arab Bank in Jerusalem

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Event
1956
GA Resolution 1002 (ES-I)

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Thematic Chronology
1947 - present
The UN and Palestine: General Assembly

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Event
1936
Appointment of the Peel Commission

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Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah

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Event
1947
Arab League Rejects Partition Plan

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