Index: Sources, M

• Palestine: Statement of Policy (British White Paper of 1939) — 1939. The British White Paper of 1939: no Jewish State, an independent Palestine State within 10 years shared by Arabs and Jews, 75,000 Jewish immigrants over five years then none without Arab acquiescence, and High Commissioner powers to prohibit and regulate land transfers.
• Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation — Saree Makdisi, Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (W. W. Norton, 2008; later printing with a new foreword by Alice Walker, 2010): an account of the everyday occupation — bureaucracy, permits, the population registry, the wall, the seam zone and the closure system — arguing the conflict is about land, that Israel wants the land without its people, and for a one-state, secular, democratic solution. Read in full: PDF p.1-453 of 453 in parts 1-7 of 7 (front matter, Foreword, Author’s Note, Introduction, Chapters 1-4, “Outsides”, “Insides”, “Outside In” and “Inside Out”, the Coda, the Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Notes on Sources, Notes on Statistics and Maps, all complete).
• Nakba and Survival — Adel Manna, Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948–1956 (University of California Press, 2022; originally 2016): a history of the Palestinians who remained — the remainers — built from 120 oral testimonies, family documents and trilingual archives, arguing that non-expulsion in northern Palestine was high-level policy differentiated by sect, and that ethnic cleansing ran wider and longer than Plan Dalet, through the prohibition of return and military rule to 1956. Read in full, PDF p.1-388 of 388 in parts 1-10 of 10 (Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapters 1-7, Epilogue, Appendices, Notes, Bibliography and Index).
• The Arab Worker under the Palestine Mandate — George Mansour, The Arab Worker under the Palestine Mandate (The Commercial Press, Jerusalem, 1937; excerpts in Settler Colonial Studies 2, 1 (2012)): the Arab Labour Federation secretary’s Royal Commission testimony turned booklet — Arab labour at one with the Arab population against Zionist immigration, the Mandate and Jewish Agency structure that crowded out Arab grievances, the point-by-point rebuttal of the Peel Report’s Arab-progress claims, and the Histadrut’s conquest of labour documented through Haifa Harbour, the Tel Aviv stone circular and the Majdal Yaba quarries. Read in full, PDF p.1-16 of 16.
• Correspondence between Sir Henry McMahon and the Sherif Hussein of Mecca, July 1915–March 1916 — 1939. Correspondence between Sir Henry McMahon and the Sherif Hussein of Mecca, July 1915–March 1916 (Cmd. 5957): the ten wartime letters, in revised English translation, in which Britain accepts the Sherif’s limits for Arab independence with the Mersina, Alexandretta and western-Syria exclusion and gives five assurances, leaving Aleppo, Beirut and Bagdad open. Read in full, PDF p.1-18 of 18.
• Stateless Citizenship (2013) — Shourideh C. Molavi, Stateless Citizenship: The Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel (Brill, 2013): Palestinian-Arab citizens are excluded through their inclusion in Israel’s racialized incorporation regime, a stateless citizenship. Read in full, PDF p.1-276 of 276.
• The Moratinos Report on the Israeli-Palestinian Talks at Taba (27 January 2001) — 2001-01-27. Miguel Moratinos, The Moratinos Report on the Israeli-Palestinian Talks at Taba: the EU non-paper recording agreement on the June 4, 1967 lines as the border basis and land swap in principle, with annexation, Jerusalem, refugee and security gaps itemized; commentary signed Akiva Eldar is appended at PDF p.8-10. Read in full, PDF p.1-10 of 10.
• Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War — Lee Mordechai, Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War (Bearing Witness, last updated July 5, 2025): the Bigger Picture contents page for the Bearing Witness – Gaza Document, version v6.7.0, presenting it as the foundational, evolving archive of the reality in Gaza since October 7 and listing its sixteen parts with their own last-updated dates, with no chapter content. Read in full, lines 1-224 of 224.
• More than Genocide — A. Dirk Moses, More than Genocide (Boston Review, Nov 14, 2023): essay arguing the genocide law was written by states so as not to inhibit permanent security, and that Israel’s Gaza campaign is a permanent-security solution whether or not it is legally genocide. Read in full, lines 1-296 of 296.
• Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales — 1989. Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales (University of California Press, 1989): forty-five tales from c.200 recorded in 1978-1980, translated unexpurgated and arranged by life cycle, with group afterwords, a Folkloristic Analysis by type and motif, a transliteration of Tale 10, motif and type indexes, a bibliography, a footnote index and full ethnographic footnotes, the Introduction reading the tales as a portrait of Palestinian culture generated by the extended family. Read in full, lines 1-14764 of 14764.