Cover
Endorsements
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Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Part I Introduction
Part II From Herzl (1896) to Recognition as a State (1949)
1 Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State (1896)
2 Ahad Ha’am, The Jewish State and the Jewish Problem (1897)
3 The Basle Program, Resolutions of the First Zionist Congress (August 30, 1897)
4 Letter From Dr. Theodore Herzl to M. Youssuf Zia al-Khalidi (March 19, 1899)
5 The Uganda Proposal (August 26, 1903)
6 Sir Henry McMahon: The McMahon Letter (October 24, 1915)
7 The Sykes-Picot Agreement (May, 1916)
8 The Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917)
9 The Weizmann-Feisal Agreement (January 3, 1919)
10 Interview in Mr. Balfour’s Apartment, 23 Rue Nitot, Paris (June 24, 1919)
11 The White Paper of 1922 (June 3, 1922) (The “Churchill White Paper”)
12 The Mandate for Palestine (July 24, 1922)
13 The Passfield White Paper (October 20, 1930)
14 British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald Letter to Chaim Weizmann (February 13, 1931)
15 The Palestine Royal Commission (Peel Commission): Report (July 24, 1937)
16 British Government: Policy Statement Against Partition (November 11, 1938)
17 British Government: The [MacDonald] White Paper (May 17, 1939)
18 Zionist Reaction to the White Paper (1939)
19 The Biltmore Program: Towards a Jewish State (May 11, 1942)
20 Arab Office Report to Anglo-American Committee (March 1946)
21 Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry (April 20, 1946)
22 United Nations General Assembly: Resolution 181, The Partition of Palestine (November 29, 1947)
23 Golda Meir, Speech to the Illinois Council of Jewish Federations (January 2, 1948)
24 Plan Dalet: Preparing for the War of Independence (March 10, 1948)
25 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (May 14, 1948)
26 Creation of a Conciliation Commission, General Assembly Resolution 194 (III) (December 11, 1948)
27 Admission of Israel to the United Nations, General Assembly Resolution 273 (III) (May 11, 1949)
Part III From Recognition (1949) Through the Start of a Peace Process (1978)
28 U.N. General Assembly: Resolution 303 (IV) Palestine: Question of an International Regime for the Jerusalem Area and the Protection of the Holy Places (December 9, 1949)
29 State of Israel: Law of Return (July 5, 1950)
30 U.N. Security Council: Resolution 95, Concerning . . . the Passage of Ships Through the Suez Canal (September 1, 1951)
31 Palestine National Authority: Palestine National Charter of 1964 (May 28, 1964)
32 Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban: Speech to the Security Council of the United Nations (June 6, 1967)
33 The Allon Plan (June 18, 1967)
34 President Lyndon B. Johnson, Five Principles for Peace in the Middle East (June 19, 1967)
35 Protection of Holy Places Law (June 27, 1967)
36 The Khartoum Resolutions (September 1, 1967)
37 U.N. Security Council: Resolution 242 (November 22, 1967)
38 The Palestinian National Charter: Resolutions of the Palestine National Council (July 1–17, 1968)
39 The Seven Points of Fatah (January 1969)
40 Statement by U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers (December 9, 1969)
41 King Hussein’s Federation Plan (March 15, 1972)
42 U.N. Security Council: Resolution 338 (October 22, 1973)
43 Palestine National Council: Resolutions at the 12th Session of the Palestine National Council (June 8, 1974)
44 Seventh Arab League Summit Conference, Resolution on Palestine (October 28, 1974)
45 Interim Agreement Between Israel and Egypt (September 1, 1975)
46 Memorandum of Agreement Between the Governments of Israel and the United States (September 1, 1975)
47 Statement to the Knesset by President Anwar el-Sadat (November 20, 1977)
48 Statement to the Knesset by Prime Minister Menachem Begin (November 20, 1977)
49 Six-Point Program of the Palestine Liberation Organization (December 4, 1977)
50 The Camp David Accords (September 17, 1978): The Framework for Peace in the Middle East
51 The Camp David Accords (September 17, 1978): The Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty Between Egypt and Israel
Part IV From Israeli-Egyptian Peace (1979) to Israeli-Jordanian Peace (1994)
52 Peace Treaty Between Israel and Egypt (March 26, 1979)
53 Arab League Summit Conference Communique, Baghdad (March 31, 1979)
54 Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel (July 30, 1980)
55 Saudi Crown Prince Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz: The Fahd Plan (August 7, 1981)
56 The Golan Heights Law (December 14, 1981)
57 Prime Minister Menachem Begin: The Wars of No Alternative and Operation Peace for the Galilee (August 8, 1982)
58 The Reagan Plan: U.S. Policy for Peace in the Middle East (September 1, 1982)
59 Report of the [Kahan] Commission of Inquiry Into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut (February 8, 1983)
60 Agreement Between Israel and Lebanon (May 17, 1983)
61 Jordan-P.L.O. Agreement (February 11, 1985)
62 The Shultz Initiative (March 4, 1988)
63 King Hussein, Address to the Nation (July 31, 1988)
64 Palestine National Council: Declaration of Independence (November 15, 1988)
65 Israel’s Peace Initiative (May 14, 1989)
66 U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s Five-Point Plan (October 10, 1989)
67 Letter of Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference (October 30, 1991), Jointly Issued by the United States and the Soviet Union
68 Address to the Knesset by Prime Minister Rabin Presenting His Government (July 13, 1992)
69 Israel-P.L.O. Recognition: Exchange of Letters Between Prime Minister Rabin and Chairman Arafat (September 9, 1993)
70 Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements [“Oslo Agreement”] (September 13, 1993)
71 Israel-Jordan Common Agenda (September 14, 1993)
72 Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area (May 4, 1994)
73 The Washington Declaration (July 25, 1994)
74 Treaty of Peace Between the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the State of Israel (October 26, 1994)
Part V From Interim Agreements (1995) to the Present Time
75 Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (September 28, 1995)
76 “What Is Area C? Planning Policy in the West Bank” (1995)
77 Speech by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to the Knesset Supporting the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement (October 5, 1995)
78 [Beilin-Abu Mazen] Framework for the Conclusion of a Final Status Agreement Between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (October 31, 1995)
79 Speech by Prime Minister Rabin at a Peace Rally (November 4, 1995)
80 Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Understanding (April 26, 1996)
81 Hussein-Netanyahu Exchange of Letters (March 9/10, 1997)
82 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, “The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process,” (August 6, 1997)
83 The Wye River Memorandum (October 23, 1998)
84 Address in the Knesset by Prime Minister-Elect Ehud Barak Upon the Presentation of His Government (July 7, 1999)
85 Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum and the Resumption of Permanent Status Negotiations (September 4, 1999)
86 Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (October 5, 1999)
87 Israel-Syria Draft Peace Agreement (“Clinton Plan”; January 8, 2000)
88 Trilateral Statement on the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David (July 25, 2000)
89 President William J. Clinton, Statement on the Middle East Peace Talks at Camp David (July 25, 2000)
90 Taba Summit (January 21–27, 2001)
91 Sharm El-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee Final Report (April 30, 2001)
92 Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire and Security Plan, Proposed by C.I.A. Director George Tenet (June 13, 2001)
93 U.N. Security Council Resolution 1397 (March 12, 2002)
94 The Arab Peace Initiative (March 28, 2002)
95 President George W. Bush Speech (June 24, 2002)
96 The Nusseibeh-Ayalon Agreement (July 27, 2002)
97 Roadmap to a Solution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (April 30, 2003)
98 The Geneva Accord: A Model Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement (December 1, 2003)
99 Exchange of Letters Between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and U.S. President George W. Bush (April 14, 2004)
100 The Disengagement Plan From the Gaza Strip and Northern Samaria (April 18, 2004)
101 International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion Finds Israel’s Construction of Wall “Contrary to International Law” (July 9, 2004)
102 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Address to the Knesset Prior to the Vote on the Disengagement Plan (October 25, 2004)
103 U.N. Security Council: Resolution 1701 (August 11, 2006)
104 Announcement of Annapolis Conference (November 20, 2007)
105 Joint Understanding on Negotiations (November 27, 2007)
106 Confidential Summary of Israeli Prime Minister Olmert’s “Package” Offer to Palestine President Abu Mazen (August 31, 2008)
107 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Declares Unilateral Ceasefire in Gaza (January 17, 2009)
108 Remarks by President Barack Obama at Cairo University, “On a New Beginning” (June 4, 2009)
109 United Nations: Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories (September 25, 2009)
110 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Remarks to the American Task Force on Palestine (October 20, 2010)
111 Understanding Regarding Ceasefire in Gaza Strip (November 21, 2012)
112 The 2014 Gaza Conflict: Factual and Legal Aspects: Executive Summary (May 2015)
113 Israeli Foreign Ministry: The Nuclear Deal With Iran: Questions and Answers (July 27, 2015)
114 Remarks by President Barack Obama on the Iran Nuclear Deal (August 5, 2015)
115 Report of the Middle East Quartet (July 1, 2016)
116 Paris Conference Joint Communique (January 15, 2017)
117 Trump Administration Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel (December 6, 2017)
118 “Peace To Prosperity” [“Trump Peace Plan”] Overview (January 2020)
119 Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates (August 13, 2020)
120 The Abraham Accords Declaration (September 15, 2020)
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