Index: Documents

• Agreement on Movement and Access — The 2005 PA–Israel agreement, facilitated by the US and EU, governing the Rafah Crossing’s opening.
• Allon Plan — Yigal Allon’s July 1967 formula of permanent control of the Jordan Valley with limited autonomy for Palestinian enclaves, which Makdisi treats as the template repackaged by Oslo, Camp David and disengagement.
• Apartheid Convention — the UN convention whose article 2 definition Barghouti applies to Israel, with its South Africa precedent sentence.
• Balfour Declaration — The British declaration answered by Palestinian poets from the month it was issued onward.
• Camp David Accords — The agreements whose Palestinian autonomy plan Said calls an overt plan to put the Palestinians under Israeli military authority forever in a Bantustan.
• Dalet Plan — The 1948 Zionist plan, as the Kimches describe it, to capture strategic heights and fill the British vacuum with a contiguous Jewish-held area.
• Democratic Constitution — Adalah’s 2007 draft constitution for a state of full equality, presented by Makdisi implicitly as a draft constitution for one state in all historic Palestine.
• Drobles Plan — Mattiyahu Drobles’s 1978 settlement plan, revising Allon’s, proposing a belt of settlements within and around the Palestinian “minority” to prevent its territorial contiguity, in Makdisi’s account.
• EUMC Working Definition of Antisemitism — The definition drafted for EUMC data collectors, keyed to selection of Jews as victims rather than motive, with Israel-related examples.
• Gate of the Sun — Elias Khoury’s novel, fiction labelled as such, telling Abu Is’af’s unit’s story through fictional heroes including Yunis, in Manna’s account.
• Goldstone report — The U.N. fact-finding mission’s report concluding the Gaza attack was directed in part at Gaza’s people as a whole and was deliberately disproportionate, as quoted by Makdisi.
• Good Friday Agreement — The 1998 Northern Ireland settlement Falk uses as the counter-model of perceived-neutral mediation, against the partisan Israel–Palestine process.
• Israel–Jordan Armistice Agreement (Rhodes, 1949) — The Rhodes armistice of 3 April 1949 that transferred the Triangle to Israel with commitments to protect its inhabitants’ rights, in Manna’s account.
• King-Crane Commission — The American commission which reported on 29 August 1919 that nearly nine-tenths of Palestine’s population were emphatically against the entire Zionist program.
• Koenig Report — Israel Koenig’s secret 1976 report to Prime Minister Rabin on handling the Arabs in Israel, leaked to Al-Hamishmar on September 7, 1976.
• Ma’na al-Nakba — Constantine Zurayk’s The Meaning of the Catastrophe (1948), the book that introduced the term al-Nakba, as presented by Manna.
• Men in the Sun — Ghassan Kanafani’s novella Rijal fil Shams (fiction), whose opening scene Said quotes in his own translation.
• Nazareth surrender agreement (16 July 1948) — The eleven-article surrender agreement for Nazareth signed 16 July 1948, whose ninth clause promised residents equal civil rights without discrimination, in Manna’s account.
• Oslo Accords — The peace process begun September 1993, from which the Nakba was totally absent and which broke down in 2000 over the Right of Return, in Pappe’s account.
• Palmer Report — The UN Secretary-General’s panel report on the May 31, 2010 flotilla attacks, whose finding that the Gaza blockade was lawful Falk and Phyllis Bennis attack.
• Plan C — Plan C (Gimel), the fusion of Plans A (1937) and B (1946) preparing offensive campaigns of deterrence and retaliation against rural and urban Palestine, superseded within months by Plan Dalet’s call for systematic and total expulsion.
• UN General Assembly Resolution 181 — The resolution of 29 November 1947 adopting partition, which in Pappe’s account handed a movement owning less than six per cent of the land more than half the territory and included no mechanism to prevent the ethnic cleansing.
• UN General Assembly Resolution 194 — The resolution of 11 December 1948 giving the refugees the choice of unconditional return and/or compensation, which Israel’s anti-repatriation policy was built to defeat, in Pappe’s account.
• UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 — The 10 November 1975 resolution determining Zionism as a form of racism, jointly authored and presented by Fayez Sayegh and revoked in 1991.
• Village Files — The Zionist movement’s detailed registry of Palestine’s Arab villages — topography, people, an index of ‘hostility’ and 1947 ‘wanted’ lists — which supplied Plan C’s data and was used in the 1948 search-and-arrest operations.