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Balfour Declaration
Stating nothing should be done that may prejudice civil & religous rights of non existing jewish communities in palestine..... -
White Paper
Gb restricting jewish immigration "The white paper" issued by british government idea of partitioning the Mandate for Palestine was abandoned in favor of an independent Palestine governed jointly by Arabs and Jews. -
Britain's Palestine Dilemma
in march 1945 saudi arabia, syria, lebanon, iraq, transjordan, yemen, and egypt organized the league of arab states to pressure britain from the other side. Britain's new labour government strongly sympathized with zionism's goal, yet it hoped to remain friendly with the arabs. -
The massacre of Baldat al-Shaikh
an argument broke out between palestine workers and jewish workers leading to the deaths of a number of palestinians and wounding and killing approximately sixty jews -
the massacre of kufr qasim
the mayor tried to convince the officer that about 400 villagers whose work took them outside the village would not be able to able to receive the warning in time. The villagers who were home complied. the officers posted themselves at the village gates. the first batch of villagers came into sight unaware of the curfew. They were met by the soldiers who shot them at a close range. -
PLO
palestine liberation organization is founded in cairo with ahmad shuqeiri as its leader -
PLO representative the palestinian people
UN reaffirmed its commitment to an independent sovereign state in palestine and gave the PLO observer status at the united nations