Primary Sources, Documents, Speeches and Archives

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat recognized Israel's right to exist and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin recognized the PLO in an exchange of letters in September 1993. Full text of the letters.

Full text of the Oslo Accords' declaration of principles between the Palestinians (PLO) and Israelis, September 1993.

Full text of the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement of April 27, 2011, outlining elections, security issues and governing matters.

Full text of the 1967 Khartoum Declaration, in which Arab states implici9tly recognized that the Arab-Israeli Conflict would be resolved politically, not militarily.

Full Text of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 Ending Israel-Hezbollah War (2006)

The full text of the 1978 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, mediated by President Jimmy Carter.

The full text of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's June 14, 2008 speech on Palestinian-Israeli peace, a (demilitarized) Palestinian state and the Arab responsibility for the Palestinian refugee problem.

In a November 1967 news conference, French President Charles de Gaulle condemned Israel's expansionist wars and occupation of Arab territories and predicted an unsustainable occupation.

The full text of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's historic address to the Israeli Knesset on Nov. 20, 1977, the first time an Arab leadder addressed the Israeli parliament.

Written by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, also known as the Algiers Declaration of 1988, defined the Palestinian state, rejected violence and terrorism, and implicitly recognized Israel's right to exist.

Complete text of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, also known as the Algiers Declaration, issued by the Palestinian National Council on November 15, 1988 in Algiers

Text and explanation of UN Security Council Resolution 338, adopted unanimously, 14-0, on Oct. 22, 1973, calling for a cease-fire between Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria and immediate negotiations following the principles set out in UN Resolution 242.

On Nov. 22, 1967, The United Nations Security Council approved Resolution 242, calling on Israel to withdraw from territories it occupied in the 1967 Six Day War, and, implicitly, on Palestinians to recognize Israel.

Full text of the Wye River Memorandum agreement between Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority's Yasser Arafat, brokered by President Clinton and signed Oct. 23, 1998.

An earnestly shaken President Clinton delivered these words at Mt. Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem at Yitzhak Rabin's funeral on Nov. 6, 1995, following Rabin's assassination two days earlier.

On Nov. 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin attended a mass rally in Israel held under the slogan, "Yes to Peace, No to Violence," and delivered these words, which proved his last, before he was assassinated by Yigal Amir, an Israeli law student and right-wing extremist who opposed Rabin's peace overtures to the Palestinians. Rabin was 73.

On March 22, 1979, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 446, creating a commission to study the impact of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories of the West Bank.

Text of United Nations Resolution 425 (1978) Calling for Israel's Withdrawal from Lebanon and the establishment of UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.

Full text of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 (XXX) Defining Zionism as a form of racism, passed 72-35 on November 10, 1975

President Ronald Reagan addressed the United States on radio and television briefly on Oct. 6, 1981, following the assassination of Egypt's Anwar Sadat. Here is what he said.

On June 30, 1980, the UN Security Council in Resolution 476 reaffirmed that Israel's occupation of Arab territories, including East Jerusalem, was illegal.

On Aug. 20, 1980, the United Nations Security Council unanimously declared "null and void" Israel's annexation of Arab East Jerusalem. Here's the text of UN Resolution 478.

The United Nations Security Council on May 21, 1968, passed Resolution 252 condemning Israel's occupation of Arab territories, including East Jerusalem.

The 18-point National Conciliation Document, also known as the Prisoners’ Document, was drafted in 2006 by Palestinian prisoners held in an Israeli jail. It calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 Israeli borders.

President George W. Bush's Road Map for Peace in the Middle East, the Bush administration steps into the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians: the first speech.

President George W. Bush's Road Map for Peace in the Middle East: the Bush administration steps into the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians: the second speech.

Text of the letter to President Obama urging him to support a UN resolution condemning illegal Israeli settlements.