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The PLO managed to overcome the separation by uniting the power in PLO and PA in one individual, Yasser Arafat. In 2002, Arafat held the functions of Chairman of the PLO/Executive Committee; Chairman of Fatah, the dominating faction within the PLO; as well as President of the Palestinian National Authority.
The assassination attempt was carried out by Mossad who hid the explosives in the book The Memoirs of Che Guevara, and sent the book to Sharif. [6] Within the PFLP, he gradually began to favour a reduced emphasis on armed struggle and closer cooperation with Fatah, the dominant PLO faction. As a result, he was removed from the PFLP Politburo in ...
The PLO would not live up to the agreement, and came to be seen more and more as a state within a state in Jordan. [32] Fatah's Yasser Arafat replaced Ahmad Shukeiri as the PLO's leader in February 1969. [32] Discipline in the different Palestinian groups was poor, and the PLO had no central power to control the different groups. [35]
The PLO closed Black September down in September 1973, on the anniversary it was created by the "political calculation that no more good would come of terrorism abroad" according to Morris. [7] In 1974 Arafat ordered the PLO to withdraw from acts of violence outside the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Israel.
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. ... 1 P) F. Factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (4 C, 7 P) H. History of the Palestine ...
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The Democratic Alliance (in Arabic: التحالف الديمقراطي) was an alliance of Palestinian PLO factions during the 1980s. [1] The constituents of the alliance were the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Palestinian Communist Party and the Palestine Liberation Front (Yakub faction).
BEIJING (Reuters) -Various Palestinian factions including rivals Hamas and Fatah agreed to end their divisions and form a national unity government during negotiations in China that ended Tuesday ...