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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.
On March 1, 1982, PLO official Nabil Wadi Aranki was killed in Madrid. [26] On June 8, 1992 PLO head of intelligence Atef Bseiso was shot and killed in Paris by two gunmen with suppressed weapons. While the PLO and a book by Israeli author Aaron J. Klein blamed Mossad for the killing, other reports indicate that the Abu Nidal Organisation was ...
The coalition includes both PLO and non-PLO factions, some organizations are listed as terrorist in the West. [2] The group's committee includes representatives of the following organizations: [3] Palestinian National Liberation Movement ; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); Islamic Resistance Movement ;
In this conflict, it acted alongside the as-Sa'iqa faction of the PLO to support Syrian interests. [13] Already deployed from 1975 in Lebanon, the PLA acted as cover for the Syrian Armed Forces during the start of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon in 1976, as invading Syrian soldiers were dressed in PLA uniforms. [6]
Ashraf Abouelhoul, managing editor of the Egyptian state-owned paper Al-Ahram and a specialist on Palestinian affairs, said Hamas was more interested in a deal than Fatah, because reconciliation ...
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 Hamas proposal was rejected by several of the other factions. In the view of the secular factions, Hamas tried to replicate the experience of the Fatah dominance in PLO. In the end the factions agreed in December 1993 to form the Alliance of Palestinian Forces with each faction, regardless of size, would have two seats in the APF central ...
The Declaration reaffirmed the status of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people [12] through the participation in it of all forces and factions according to democratic principles. The Declaration implied a reform of the PLO by the inclusion in the PLO of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.