| Year | | Process Name | | Description |
| 1916 | | The Sykes-Picot Agreement | | Secret understanding concluded during World War I between Great Britain and France, with the assent of Russia, for the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. |
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| 1917 | | The Balfour Declaration | | British Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, wrote to Jewish leader Lord Rothshild, to assure him that his government supported the ideal of providing a homeland for the Jews and became the basis for international support for the founding of the modern state of Israel. |
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| 1922 | | The Churchill White Paper | | Attempts to resolve the various contradictory promises of the British Foreign office and affirms the right of Jews to a homeland in Palestine, refers to a Zionist resolution of 1921 declaring willingness to build the country in cooperation with the Arabs |
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| 1939 | | British White Paper | | Embodies the British solution to Palestine problem: conditional independence for unitary Palestinian state after ten years; admission of 15,000 Jewish immigrants annually into Palestine for five years, with immigration after that subject to "Arab acquiescence"; protection of Palestinian land rights against Zionist acquisition. |
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| 1948 | | Declaration of Israel's Independence | | Issued at Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948. |
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| 1968 | | The Palestinian National Charter | | Resolutions of the Palestine National Council July 1-17, 1968. |
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| 1978 | | Camp David Accords | | Historic peace accords between Israel and Egypt, signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, with President Jimmy Carter signing as a witness. Israel agreed to return the Sinai to Egypt and the two nations agreed to negotiate Palestinian autonomy measures in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. |
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| 1988 | | Hamas Charter | | The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement |
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| 1993 | | Letters of Recognition | | PLO recognizes Israel as a state, renounces the use of terrorism and other acts of violence, and renders inoperative those articles of the Palestinian Covenant which deny Israel’s right to exist. Israel recognizes the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people. |
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| 1993 | | Declaration of Principles | | Israel and PLO agree that "it is time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict, [and] recognize their mutual legitimate and political rights." Outlines the process to implement resolutions 242 and 338 and allow Palestinians to govern themselves. |
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| 1994 | | Gaza-Jericho Agreement (Oslo 1) | | Detailed agreement on how to disengage Israeli security, civil affairs, legal matters, and economic relations and allow for Palestinian control in areas of Gaza and Jericho (West Bank). |
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| 1994 | | Agreement on Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities | | Outlines the transferring of power to Palestinians in areas of education, culture, health, social welfare, tourism, and direct taxation. |
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| 1995 | | Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II) | | Allows for "safe passage" of Palestinians between Gaza Strip and West Bank, outlines redeployment of troops from within occupied territories. |
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| 1997 | | Agreement on the Temporary International Presence in Hebron | | Allows for the direct involvement of observers from foreign nations in Hebron, an area of historic conflict. |
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| 1998 | | Wye River Memorandum | | Meant to clarify ambiguities of the Interim Agreement (Oslo II). |
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| 1999 | | Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum | | Restates the commitment of both sides to the implementation of all agreements arrived at since 1993. Also intended to overcome more ambiguities from the Wye River Memorandum. |
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| 2000 | | Camp David Accords | | President Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat met to discuss the prospects of peace. They did not come to an agreement, but did issue a Trilateral Statement. |
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| 2001 | | The Taba Talks | | For six days Israeli and Palestinian delegations discussed how to achieve a lasting peace. They decided to re-convene following the pending Israeli elections. They issued a Joint Statement. |
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| 2003 | | The Road Map | | U.S. backed plan issued by the Quartet that has yet to be agreed upon by both Palestinians and Israelis. |
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| 2003 | | The Geneva Accords | | An unofficial framework for negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians initiated by civilians. |
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| For a vast collection of documents on Israel and Palestine visit The Middle East 1916-2001: A Documentary Record at the Avalon Project at Yale Law School. |
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| For more Middle East peace process documents visit this page from the website of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations. |
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