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Dera'a Emergency camp, Syrian Arab Republic

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British Troops with Machine Guns

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1947
Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question

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1936
British Violent Repression

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Biography
Ihsan Abbas

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Event
1936
General Strike Called Off

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Colonization Violence
The Nakba (I)

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Period
1917 to 1936
II. Early Mandate Period

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Fifth Palestinian National Congress, Nablus

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Event
1987
Start of the Intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

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1967
Security Council Resolution S/RES/242

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Thematic Chronology
1858 - present
Regulating Palestinian Land

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1920
3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa

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1950
General Assembly Resolution 393 (V)

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2015
General Assembly Resolution A/RES/69/320

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1973
Security Council Resolution S/RES/338

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Biography
Mahmoud Darwish

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1988 to 1989
Draft Security Council Resolutions S/19466, S/19780, S/20463, S/20677, and S/20945/Rev.1

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2010
Israel Announces Easing of Gaza Blockade

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2001
UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban

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2003
Draft Security Council Resolution S/2003/891

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

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Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah

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1937
Palestinians Reject Peel Commission Report

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Guerrilla warfare and the mass strike in the 1936 Revolt

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2011
Diplomatic Efforts to Avert Palestinian Statehood Bid at the UN

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Biography
Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

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Popular action Legal
West Bank
Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

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1963
Draft Security Council Resolution S/5407

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Event
2006
July War: Diplomacy Paralyzed by the US

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Land in Jewish Possession (1947)

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1987 to 1988
General Assembly Resolutions 42/210, 42/229 and 42/230

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1966
Security Council Resolution S/RES/228

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The Bitter Condition

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1990
Draft Security Council Resolution S/21326

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Biography
Musa Kazim Husseini

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Period
1516 to 1917
I. Ottoman Rule

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1978
Security Council Resolution S/RES/425

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2010
The United Nations Human Rights Council Establishes a Fact-Finding Mission on the Mavi Marmara Incident

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Violence
October 1973 War

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Period
1936 to 1947
III. Second Mandate Period

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1974
Arafat Addresses the UN General Assembly

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Abandoning Ship

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Palestine: A Homeland Denied

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1937
Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

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1936
Enactment of Emergency Regulations

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1967
General Assembly Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

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1971
Jordan Complains to UN Security Council on Jerusalem

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1980
Security Council Resolution S/Res/465

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Event
1948
Operation Chametz and the Fall of Jaffa

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Story
Casting terror

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Fawwar Camp, West Bank

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Biography
Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

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1938 to 1939
Third Phase of the Great Arab Revolt

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Biography
Gabi Baramki

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2014
Draft Security Council Resolution S/2014/916

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1903
Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company

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1956 to 1957
Israel Addresses the Future of Gaza

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2003
General Assembly Resolution A/RES/ES-10/13

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Thematic Chronology
1919 - 1946
British and International Commissions of Inquiry in Mandate Palestine

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Biography
Ibrahim Tuqan

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Biography
Hind al-Husseini

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Diplomatic Colonization
UN Partition Plan, 1947

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