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After Black September, the PLO fedayeen relocated to Lebanon. In 1972, Habash experienced failing health and gradually began to lose influence within the organization. The Palestinian National Council 's (PNC) adoption of a resolution viewed by the PFLP as a two-state solution in 1974, prompted Habash to lead his organization out of active ...
It marked the beginning of the PLO's decline, as the PA came to replace the PLO as the prime Palestinian political institution. Political factions within the PLO that had opposed the Oslo process were marginalized. The PLO managed to overcome the separation by uniting the power in PLO and PA in one individual, Yasser Arafat.
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.
With the signing of the Prisoners' Document, the political leadership of all factions in the Palestinian territories, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, had implicitly recognized Israel [1] [10] [6] [25] [7] and explicitly accepted a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 boundaries, based on the UN Charter and international law, and Hamas ...
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP; Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين, romanized: al-Jabha ash-Shaʿbiyya li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn) [3] is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary socialist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash.
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]
During the Lebanese Civil War, Syria likewise made extensive use of the PLA as a proxy force, including against the PLO (the PLA however proved unreliable when ordered to fight other Palestinians, and suffered from mass defections). [12] In this conflict, it acted alongside the as-Sa'iqa faction of the PLO to support Syrian interests. [13]
In May 2006, leaders of 5 Palestinian factions in an Israeli prison, including from Fatah and Hamas, signed a National Conciliation Document, known as the Prisoners' Document. It was written with the intention to reconcile all factions and unite them in their struggle against the Israeli occupation and form a government of national unity.