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Old City of Jerusalem from the Church of the Savior

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Thematic Chronology
1963 - present
The UN and Palestine: Security Council Vetoed Draft Resolutions

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1936
Enactment of Emergency Regulations

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1956
UNRWA Director Issues Special Report on Situation in Gaza Strip

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1936
General Strike Called Off

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The Constitutional School

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Biography
Omar al-Salih al-Barghouthi

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

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1947
Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians

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Event
1923
6th Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jaffa

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1963
Draft Security Council Resolution S/5407

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

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1974
Arafat Addresses the UN General Assembly

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Arrival in Palestine of Sir Hebert Samuel, High Commissioner

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1929
1st Palestine Arab Women Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

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Event
2002
Security Council Resolution S/RES/1435

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Thematic Chronology
1948 - present
The UN and Palestine: Security Council Resolutions

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Young Turks Revolution

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Event
1923
Treaty of Lausanne is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

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Peel Commission and Partition

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Israeli Attacks on Jordan

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1980
Security Council Resolution S/Res/465

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Biography
Shaykh Sulaiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

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Period
1917 to 1936
II. Early Mandate Period

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

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1947
Arab League Rejects Partition Plan

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Biography
Khalil al-Wazir (“Abu Jihad”)

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2007
International Responses to Palestinian Unity Efforts

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Casting terror

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1948
The British Mandate Ends. The US Recognizes the State of Israel on a de facto Basis

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Biography
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

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1949
Security Council Resolution S/RES/69

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1975
GA Resolution 3379 (XXX)

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Pan-Islamic Congress, 1931

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Palestine and Oil

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The Call of the Land

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2000
Sharm al-Shaykh Summit

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

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Guerrilla warfare and the mass strike in the 1936 Revolt

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1988
Arafat addresses the UN General Assembly

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1938
Irgun Attacks Against Palestinians Intensify

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Homage To Karamah

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Biography
Abd al-Majid Shuman

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When pickles become a weapon

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Biography
Khalil Baidas

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Burning of the Rex Cinema

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Biography
Muin Bisisu

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Event
1947
Irgun Kidnaps and Murders Two British Sergeants

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Event
1948
Bernadotte's New Plan

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Biography
Ismail Shammut

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Importation of a Military Industry

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Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

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1956
GA Resolutions 997 (ES-I) and 998 (ES-I): UNGA Emergency Session

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Palestinian Delegation to the Eastern Women's Congress

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

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Event
1946
Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

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Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi

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Event
1978
Security Council Resolution S/RES/425

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Thematic Chronology
1946 - 1949
Military Operations and Zionist Ethnic Cleansing

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Event
1948
Operation Jevussi for the Conquest of Jerusalem

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Town of Safad, Northern Galilee

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Yusuf Diya-uddin Pasha al-Khalidi

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1948
Security Council Resolutions S/RES/43 and S/RES/44

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