BERNARD REICH, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, and currently serves as a consultant to various U.S. government agencies and is Chairman of Advanced Area Studies (Middle East—Fertile Crescent) at the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute and an adjunct faculty member of several defense and armed forces schools and institutes. He is a member of the Board of advisory editors of the Middle East Journal and has published widely on the Middle East. His most recent books for Greenwood Press include The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Historical Encyclopedia</> (forthcoming shortly),curing the Covenant: United States Relations after the Cold War (1995), Iraeli Politics in the 1990s: Key Domestic and Foreign Policy Factors (1991) and Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary (1990), among others.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology Documents Der Judenstaat (February 14, 1896) Basle Program (August 23, 1897) Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (July 14, 1915 - March 10, 1916) Sykes-Picot Agreement (May 15-16, 1916) Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917) Feisal-Weizmann Agreement (January 3, 1919) Churchill White Paper (July 1, 1922) Palestine Mandate (July 24, 1922) Public Resolution No. 73, 67th Congress, Second Session (September 21, 1922) British Policy in Palestine (1922-1939) Biltmore Program (May 11, 1942) League of Arab States (March 22, 1945) Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry (April 20, 1946) United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) (November 29, 1947) Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (May 14, 1948) United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 (III) (December 11, 1948) Armistice Agreements (1949) Tripartite Declaration (May 25, 1950) Law of Return (July 5, 1950) Jerusalem Program (August 30, 1951) United States Aide-Memoire (February 11, 1957) Palestine National Covenant (June 1964) Johnson's Five Principles of Peace (June 19, 1967) Khartoum Arab Summit Resolutions (September 1, 1967) UNSC Resolution 242 (November 22, 1967) Rogers Plan (December 9, 1969) Rogers Plan B -- The Ceasefire/Standstill Proposal (June 19, 1970) Rogers Plan C -- Interim Suez Canal Proposal (October 4, 1971) Soviet-Egyptian Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation (May 27, 1971) Hussein Proposal for a United Arab Kingdom (March 15, 1972) UNSC Resolution 338 (October 22, 1973) UNSC Resolution 339 (October 23, 1973) UNSC Resolution 340 (October 25, 1973) Egypt-Israel Six Point Agreement (November 11, 1973) Egypt-Israel Disengagement of Forces Agreement (January 18, 1974) Agranat Commission of Inquiry Interim Report (April 1974) Israel-Syria Disengagement of Forces Agreement (May 31, 1974) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) (May 31, 1974) PLO Phased Plan (June 1974) Rabat Arab Summit Resolutions (October 28, 1974) UNGA Resolution 3210 (XXIX) (October 14, 1974) UNGA Resolution 3236 (XXIX) (November 22, 1974) Observer Status for the PLO-UNGA Resolution 3237 (XXIX) (November 22, 1974) Sinai II Accords (September 1, 1975) Joint Communique by the Governments of the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (October 1, 1977) Sadat Peace Initiative (November 9, 1977) Aswan Formula (January 4, 1978) UNSC Resolution 425 (March 19, 1978) Camp David Accords (September 17, 1978) Baghdad Arab Summit Resolutions (November 5, 1978) Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty (March 26, 1979) Venice Declaration (June 13, 1980) Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel (July 30, 1980) Fahd Plan (August 7,1981) Golan Heights Law (December 14, 1981) Reagan Fresh Start Initiative (September 1, 1982) Fez Peace Plan (September 9, 1982) Brezhnev Plan (September 15, 1982) Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report (February 8, 1983) Israel-Lebanon Agreement (May 17, 1983) Soviet Proposals for a Middle East Settlement (July 29, 1984) Hussein-Arafat Accord (February 11, 1985) Hassan-Peres Summit (July 23, 1986) Brussels Declaration (February 23, 1987) Shultz Plan (March 4, 1988) Hussein's Renunciation of the Claim to the West Bank (July 31, 1988) HAMAS Charter (August 18, 1988) Palestine National Council, Algiers (November 15, 1988) Stockholm Declaration (December 7, 1988) United States Dialogue with the PLO (December 14, 1988) Government of Israel Peace Initiative (May 14, 1989) Madrid Declaration (June 27, 1989) Taif Accords (October 22, 1989) Ten Point Plan (July 1989) Five Point Plan (October 1989) UNSC Resolution 672 (October 12, 1990) Madrid Peace Conference Letter of Invitation (October 19, 1991) UNGA Vote Repealing Resolution 3379 (XXX) (December 16, 1991) Israel-PLO Recognition (September 9, 1993) Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles (September 13, 1993) Israel-Jordan Common Agenda (September 14, 1993) UNGA Resolution 48/58 (December 14, 1993) Israel-PLO Economic Agreement (April 29, 1994) Cairo Agreement (May 4, 1994) UNSC Resolution 904 (March 18, 1994) Shamgar Commission Report (June 26, 1994) Washington Declaration (July 25, 1994) Early Empowerment Agreement (August 29, 1994) Oslo Declaration (September 13, 1994) Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty (October 26, 1994) Casablanca Declaration (November 1, 1994) Cairo Summit Statement (February 2, 1995) Bibliography Index