Index: Events

• 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine — The revolt of April 1936 to September 1939, its phases, losses and consequences in Kanafani’s analysis.
• 1939 London Round Table Conference — The February 1939 London conference at which, in Kanafani’s account, the Arab regimes imposed their will on the Palestinians a second time.
• Camp David Summit, 2000 — The 2000 Barak-Arafat summit at which, in Makdisi’s account from the negotiators’ published records, no written offer was made and what was discussed left Israel controlling the Jordan Valley, borders, airspace, water and roads.
• Czechoslovak arms deal — The communist-camp arms supply from March 1948 that Manna calls decisive for Israel’s victories and the basis of its gratitude to the communists.
• Day of the Land — March 30, 1976, the means by which the Palestinians inside Israel welcomed the PLO as their representative, in Said’s account.
• Ferguson uprising — The August 2014 Ferguson, Missouri uprising after Michael Brown’s killing, simultaneous with the Gaza assault and a solidarity breakthrough.
• First Intifada — The 1987- uprising, begun in Jabalia, whose repression and toll Makdisi recounts and which produced the PNC’s 1988 declaration.
• First Zionist Congress — The Basel congress of August 1897 under Herzl which organised Zionist colonisation and stated its aim of a home in Palestine secured by public law.
• Freedom Flotilla — The civil society flotillas seeking to break the Gaza blockade, the first intercepted on May 31, 2010 and Freedom Flotilla 2 planned for June 2011.
• Gaza Siege — the siege of Gaza since 2006 as documented in Barghouti Chapters 14–15: poverty and factory closures, health effects, and the post-flotilla “easing” skepticism.
• Great March of Return — Gaza mobilizations beginning on Land Day 2018, named in the Introduction and Timeline of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.
• Kafr Kassim — Village where, in Said’s account, 49 unarmed Arab peasants were shot by the frontier guard after a sudden curfew in October 1956.
• Karameh — The Jordan town whose March 1968 battle was the first post-1967 Israeli-Palestinian battle and the beginning of the quickest Palestinian growth, in Said’s account.
• Operation Cast Lead — Israel’s December 2008–January 2009 offensive on Gaza as Barghouti presents it: toll, war-crimes accusations, and the BDS spread that followed.
• Operation Dani — The July 1948 attack on Lydd and Ramla commanded by Yigal Allon, whose towns’ populations were expelled on a forced march to the West Bank, in Pappe’s account.
• Operation Hiram — The October 1948 operation that took the upper Galilee and southern Lebanon in two weeks, the villages turning into strongholds before falling at the month’s end, in Pappe’s account.
• Operation Mole — Army plan to expel the southern Triangle’s population to detention camps if war broke out in late 1956, behind the Kafr Qasim massacre in Manna’s account.
• Operation Nachshon — The first Plan Dalet operation, April 1948 on the Jerusalem road, whose sudden massive expulsions served as the model for future campaigns, in Pappe’s account.
• Operation Palm Tree — Operation Dekel, July 1948, which took Nazareth and its villages and completed the take-over of the Western Galilee, in Pappe’s account.
• Peel Commission — The Royal Commission whose 7 July 1937 report recommended partition and a Jewish state.
• Second Intifada — The 2000 uprising, sparked by Sharon’s Haram al-Sharif visit and met, in General Ya’alon’s words, by a drive to make Palestinians understand they are a defeated people, in Makdisi’s account.