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The PLO demanded that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to their homes. This is expressed in the National Covenant: Article 2 of the Charter states that "Palestine, with the boundaries it had during the British mandate, is an indivisible territorial unit", [44] meaning that there is no place for a Jewish state. This article was adapted ...
In 1974, PLO accepted the creation of a "national authority" in the West Bank and Gaza as a first stage towards liberating Palestine. [25] This represented a fundamental change in PLO's objectives, as it was interpreted as an acceptance of two states in historic Palestine, and thus an implied recognition of Israel. [26]
In July 1968 armed, non-state actors such as Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine achieved the majority of the Palestinian National Council votes, and on February 3, 1969, at the Palestinian National Council in Cairo, the leader of the Fatah, Yasser Arafat was elected as the chairman of the PLO. From the start, the ...
In December 1995, the PLO also assumed responsibility for civil administration in 17 areas in Hebron. [93] While the PLO assumed these responsibilities as a result of Oslo, a new temporary interim administrative body was set up as a result of the Accords to carry out these functions on the ground: the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).
The Covenant is an ideological paper, written in the early days of the PLO. The first version was adopted on 28 May 1964. In 1968 it was replaced by a comprehensively revised version. [1] In April 1996, many articles, which were inconsistent with the Oslo Accords, were wholly or partially nullified. [2] [3]
The Jewish population of the land on the eve of the great revolt may have been as high as 2.2 million. [145] Jerusalem itself reached a peak in size and population at the end of the Second Temple period , when the city covered two square kilometres ( 3 ⁄ 4 square mile) and had a population of 200,000.
Europe was responsive to the plight of the Palestinians over the course of the PLO's time in Lebanon and France and Greece in particular made efforts in support of the Palestinian cause. [8] The US was less positive in response to the PLO and at one time favoured a policy of isolating the Palestinians, which clearly did not work.
The PLO was hence a government in exile between 1988 and 1994. The PLO began to exercise a limited rule in the Areas A and B of the West Bank and part of the Gaza Strip as a consequence of the 1994 Gaza-Jericho Agreement, under the umbrella of the Palestinian National Authority. In 2012, Palestine was upgraded to the status of non-member ...