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Historical Documents

  The Balfour Declaration of 1917
» 175.6 KB - 6,781 hits - 11 May 2010
The Balfour Declaration was a statement of support made by the British Government for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in the region of Palestine of the Ottoman Empire. It was sent in the format of a letter on November 2nd 1917, issued by British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour and sent to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, a member of the Zionist movement in England. The declaration became a landmark in the history of the Zionist movement. Contains a copy of the original document. (source: knesset.gov.il and wikipedia).

  Memorandum on Acts of Arab Aggression submitted to the UN Palestine Commission (1948)
» 30.5 MB - 4,433 hits - 17 February 2013
Memorandum on acts of Arab aggression to alter by force the settlement on the future government of Palestine approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Memorandum submitted to the United Nations Palestine Commission by the Jewish Agency for Palestine (1948). A report on the alleged aggressions by the Arab states in the period just before the Israeli War of Independence.

  The British Mandate for Palestine
» 178.2 KB - 4,192 hits - 18 February 2013
The British Mandate for Palestine was a legal commission for the administration of Palestine, the draft of which was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922, amended via the 16 September 1922 Transjordan memorandum and which came into effect on 26 September 1923. The mandate ended at midnight on 14 May 1948. (PDF made available by CrethiPlethi.com)

  The Oslo Accords, 1995 (Oslo-B; second chapter)
» 1.0 MB - 2,306 hits - 27 July 2012
The Oslo Agreement - widely known as the Oslo Accords - was finalized in Oslo, Norway, on August 20, 1993 following secret negotiations between the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The official signing ceremony was held in Washington on September 13, 1993, with then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (representing Israel) and Chairman Yassir Arafat (representing the PLO) and US President Bill Clinton serving as their witness. The accords were divided into two chapters. The first chapter – Oslo-A or Oslo-I – detailed a declaration of principles on Interim Palestinian self-government; while the second chapter – Oslo-B or Oslo-II – was finalized in 1995 and included an expansion of the Palestinian Authority’s territories, mutual security engagements and the regulation of Israeli-Palestinian relations. You can download Oslo-A "first chapter" (full version) also at our download page.

  The Peel Commission Report, July 1937
» 274.5 KB - 1,034 hits - 29 March 2014
The Palestine Royal Commission was a British Royal Commission of inquiry led by Lord Robert Peel, hence known as the Peel Commission, and sent to British Mandatory Palestine in November of 1936 to investigate and determine the causes of the Arab-Jewish violence in Mandatory Palestine and propose an appropriate course of action. This PDF includes the report's Peel Partition Plan map. (PDF made available by CrethiPlethi.com)

  The Oslo Accords, 1993 (Oslo-A; first chapter)
» 125.1 KB - 782 hits - 27 July 2012
The Oslo Agreement - widely known as the Oslo Accords - was finalized in Oslo, Norway, on August 20, 1993 following secret negotiations between the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The official signing ceremony was held in Washington on September 13, 1993, with then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (representing Israel) and Chairman Yassir Arafat (representing the PLO) and US President Bill Clinton serving as their witness. The accords were divided into two chapters. The first chapter – Oslo-A or Oslo-I – detailed a declaration of principles on Interim Palestinian self-government; while the second chapter – Oslo-B or Oslo-II – was finalized in 1995 and included an expansion of the Palestinian Authority’s territories, mutual security engagements and the regulation of Israeli-Palestinian relations. You can download Oslo-B "second chapter" (full version) also at our download page.

  Faisal-Weizmann Agreement
» 538.8 KB - 503 hits - 13 February 2010
The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement was signed on January 3, 1919, by Emir Feisal (son of the King of Hejaz) and Chaim Weizmann (later President of the World Zionist Organization) as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 settling disputes stemming from World War I. It was a short-lived agreement for Arab-Jewish cooperation on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.

   

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