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Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestinian political organization
Also known as: Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr Filasṭīniyyah, Munazzamat at-Tahrir Filastin, PLO
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- Arabic:
- Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr Filasṭīniyyah
- Date:
- 1964 - present
- Areas Of Involvement:
- guerrilla warfare
- national liberation movement
- Related People:
- Yasser Arafat
- Mahmoud Abbas
- Imad Mugniyah
- Abū Niḍāl
- Ṣalāḥ Khalaf
- On the Web:
- Academia - The Palestine Liberation Organization (Apr. 10, 2024)
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Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), umbrella political organization claiming to represent the world’s Palestinians—those Arabs, and their descendants, who lived in mandated Palestine before the creation there of the State of Israel in 1948. It was formed in 1964 to centralize the leadership of various Palestinian groups that previously had operated as clandestine resistance movements. It came into prominence only after the Six-Day War of June 1967, however, and engaged in a protracted guerrilla war against Israel during the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s before entering into peace negotiations with that country in the 1990s. After the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 the ...(100 of 1602 words)