The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Quote: "Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” - Golda Meir
PLO Involvement in Lebonan:
500,000 refugees living in south Lebanon conduct terrorist attacks on Israel (PLO). The PLO was a group with the goal of creating and independant State of Palestine. Until 1991 Israel and the United States saw this group as a terrorist organization.
Israel invades Lebanon as far as Beirut in 1982. This was "Operation Peace for Galilee". They wanted all threats on Northern Israel removed.
Multinational forces are sent in to restore order. PLO women are massacred.
Syria invades Lebanon in 1987.
The PLO eventually agrees to withdraw from the conflict in Lebanon.
In 1991 a ceasefire was signed although Syrian troops still remained in Lebanon. However, attacks were still launched on Israel from the Golan heights area.
The militant arm of the PLO is called Fatah.
PLO involvement in other incidents:
Leads the hijacking of planes. Three were blown up on the runway in Jordan in 1970. The most recognized were the attacks on the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich olympics. Yasser Arafat claimed to have nothing to do with the attacks.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, responded with operation Sword of Gideon or also known as operation Wrath of God. Which was a plan to assasinate those terrorists involved in the Munich Olympics hijacking.
They led many intafadas, political uprisings, in the following years.
Yasser Arafat PLO to PLA. PLA stands for the Palestine Liberation Army.
Summary: The Palestine Liberation Organization was pushing for an independant Palestine. Therefore their main conflicts were with Israel. Israel along with their allies saw the group as a terrorist organization. They felt this way until 1991. Then in 1993 the PLO recognized Israel's write to exist while Israel recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people, this later led to the signing of the Oslo Accords.
Website LInks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Beirut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War
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PLO Involvement in Lebonan:
500,000 refugees living in south Lebanon conduct terrorist attacks on Israel (PLO). The PLO was a group with the goal of creating and independant State of Palestine. Until 1991 Israel and the United States saw this group as a terrorist organization.
Israel invades Lebanon as far as Beirut in 1982. This was "Operation Peace for Galilee". They wanted all threats on Northern Israel removed.
Multinational forces are sent in to restore order. PLO women are massacred.
Syria invades Lebanon in 1987.
The PLO eventually agrees to withdraw from the conflict in Lebanon.
In 1991 a ceasefire was signed although Syrian troops still remained in Lebanon. However, attacks were still launched on Israel from the Golan heights area.
The militant arm of the PLO is called Fatah.
PLO involvement in other incidents:
Leads the hijacking of planes. Three were blown up on the runway in Jordan in 1970. The most recognized were the attacks on the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich olympics. Yasser Arafat claimed to have nothing to do with the attacks.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, responded with operation Sword of Gideon or also known as operation Wrath of God. Which was a plan to assasinate those terrorists involved in the Munich Olympics hijacking.
They led many intafadas, political uprisings, in the following years.
Yasser Arafat PLO to PLA. PLA stands for the Palestine Liberation Army.
Summary: The Palestine Liberation Organization was pushing for an independant Palestine. Therefore their main conflicts were with Israel. Israel along with their allies saw the group as a terrorist organization. They felt this way until 1991. Then in 1993 the PLO recognized Israel's write to exist while Israel recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people, this later led to the signing of the Oslo Accords.
Website LInks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Beirut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War
Video:
Question: Could the PLO have gained their eventual recognition without going to terrorist type measures?