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Definition: Palestine Liberation Organization from Collins English Dictionary

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1 an organization founded in 1964 with the aim of creating a state for Palestinians; it recognized the state of Israel in 1993 and Israel granted Palestinians autonomy in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Abbreviation: PLO

Palestine Liberation Organization

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(PLO), coordinating council for Palestinian organizations, founded (1964) by Egypt and the Arab League and initially controlled by Egypt. Composed of various guerrilla groups and political factions, the PLO is dominated by Al Fatah, the largest group, whose leader, Yasir Arafat , was chairman of the PLO from 1969 to 2004 and established Palestinian control over the organization. Other groups in the PLO include the Syrian-backed As Saiqa and the Marxist-oriented Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The PLO was initially committed to the dissolution of Israel, mainly through the use of armed force. Since its founding, the organization has sponsored innumerable guerrilla raids on Israeli civilian and military targets. although it has disclaimed responsibility for many of the Palestinian movement's more spectacular acts of terror. In 1974 the PLO received UN recognition, and a government in exile was recognized by Arab nations as a basis for a future Palestinian state, to…
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Full text Article PLO

From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
The Palestine Liberation Organization, formed in 1964 from Al Fatah to unite various Palestinian Arab groups and ultimately bring about an independent state of Palestine. Yasser Arafat (b.1929) became its leader in 1969. In the early 1970s it made its base in Lebanon but when PLO forces were…
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Umbrella political organization representing the Palestinian people in their drive for a Palestinian state. It was formed in 1964 to centralize the leadership of various groups. After the Six-Day War of 1967, the PLO promoted a distinctively Palestinian agenda. In 1969 Yāsir ʿArafāt , leader of…
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A most remarkable aspect of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has been its extensive building of institutions—political, cultural, economic, and social. Two of the most important political institutions are the Palestine National Council (PNC) and the Executive Committee (EC). Important…
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Full text Article Palestine Liberation Organization

From The Oxford Companion to International Relations
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed by the Arab summit conference in January 1964 in order to contain and channel renewed nationalism among the Palestinians, who had been displaced by Israel's foundation in 1948. The 422-member Palestine National Council (PNC), the PLO's…
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The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was established in 1964 under Ahmed Shukairy to represent Palestinian national demands for self-determination. In 1964 the Palestine National Council (PNC, or parliament) of 350 representatives met in East Jerusalem and voted on the Palestine National…
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Full text Article Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

From Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) came into existence as a result of a decision made at an Arab summit conference called by Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser in January 1964. The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 had created thousands of homeless Palestinian refugees. In the aftermath of the…
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Full text Article Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Islam
The Palestine Liberation Organization is the national liberation movement of the Palestinian people. It was originally founded in East Jerusalem in May 1964 at the behest of Egyptian president Jamal Abd al-Nasir (d. 1970) and other Arab leaders who attended a summit meeting in Cairo in January of…
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The PLO was established in 1964 originally as an appendage of the Arab League. By 1969, though, it had become a more or less independent organization as various Palestinian resistance groups, including Fatah, the movement headed by YASIR ARAFAT and the one that tended to dominate the PLO. By the…
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Arab governments formed the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) at a summit conference in January 1964 in order to channel revitalized nationalism among Palestinian exiles. The governments were aware of the growing disillusionment among Palestinians and hoped to contain their frustration by…
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Full text Article Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization

From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Judaism
During the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, several hundred thousand Arabs in Palestine fled the new Jewish state with the encouragement of the other Arab nations. Two Arab countries, Jordan and Egypt, occupied the remaining lands where, according to the United Nations, an Arab Palestinian state…
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