These measures plus the improvement in Israel's relations with Egypt and Jordan, the renunciation of terrorism by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the on-going peace talks between the PLO and Israel, the collapse of the communist states in East Europe, which reduced the scope for sanctuaries for terrorists, and the more cautious attitude of countries such as Libya and Syria after the U. S. declared them State-sponsors of international terrorism, the collapse of ideological terrorist groups such as the Red Army Faction and the tightening of civil aviation security measures by all countries have arrested and reversed the steep upward movement of hijackings.

The DFLP condemned attacks outside Israel ( such as the aircraft hijackings for which the Habash PFLP gained notoriety ) and was essential in making the binational state the goal of the PLO in the 1970s, insisting on the need for cooperation between Arabs and Jews.

In 1999, at a meeting in Cairo, the DFLP and the PFLP agreed to cooperate with the PLO leadership in final status negotiations with Israel.

Its military capacity has been fading fast since the 1993 cease-fire between the PLO and Israel, which the DFLP respected despite its objections to the Oslo Accords.

In September 1995, Israel and the PLO signed a second peace agreement, extending the Palestinian Authority to most West Bank towns.

Israel had been attacking the PLO in Southern Lebanon in the lead-up to the 1982 Lebanon War, and Israel had invaded and occupied Southern Lebanon and besieged Beirut.

" In the 1970s and 1980s Israel tolerated and supported the group as preferable to the secular and then more powerful al-Fatah and the PLO.

In the interim, while armed Lebanese forces under the Maronite-controlled government sparred with Palestinian fighters, Egyptian leader Gamal Abd al-Nasser helped to negotiate the 1969 " Cairo Agreement " between Arafat and the Lebanese government, which granted the PLO autonomy over Palestinian refugee camps and access routes to northern Israel in return for PLO recognition of Lebanese sovereignty.

For its part, the PLO used its new privileges to establish an effective " mini-state " in southern Lebanon, and to ramp up its attacks on settlements in northern Israel.

In the south, military exchanges between Israel and the PLO led Israel to support Saad Haddad's South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) in an effort to establish a security belt along Israel's northern border, an effort which intensified in 1977 with the election of new Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin.

Intra-Palestinian fighting and PLO-Israeli conflict continued, and July 24, 1981, Habib brokered a cease-fire agreement with the PLO and Israel: the two sides agreed to cease hostilities in Lebanon proper and along the Israeli border with Lebanon.

The targets were Mohammad Yusuf al-Najjar ( Abu Yusuf ), head of Fatah's intelligence arm, which ran Black September, according to Morris ; Kamal Adwan, who headed the PLO's so-called Western Sector, which controlled PLO action inside Israel ; and Kamal Nassir, the PLO spokesman.

Abu Daoud was allowed safe passage through Israel in 1996 so he could attend a PLO meeting convened in the Gaza Strip for the purpose of rescinding an article in its charter that called for Israel's eradication.

In 1988, Israel closed the House and banned PLO activity in it.

Israel dismissed these statements of moderation from Arafat and the PNC resolution in Algiers, 1988 ( which had been sufficient to open a dialogue with the United States ) as " deceptive propaganda exercises " because ( among other objections ), " the PLO Covenant has not changed.

The official English translation used by Israel, the PLO and the United States reads:

: The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Central Council will reaffirm the letter of 22 January 1998 from PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat to President Clinton concerning the nullification of the Palestinian National Charter provisions that are inconsistent with the letters exchanged between the PLO and the Government of Israel on 9 – 10 September 1993.

The PLO was considered by the United States and Israel to be a terrorist organization until the Madrid Conference in 1991.

In 1993, PLO recognized Israel's right to exist in peace, accepted UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, and rejected " violence and terrorism "; in response, Israel officially recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.

Fataḥ ( ) ( also known as Fateh, ) is a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), a multi-party confederation.

* 1976 – Air France Flight 139 ( Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris ) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.

It is believed that the Phalangists considered it retaliation for Gemayel's assassination and for the Damour massacre which PLO fighters had committed earlier in a Christian town.

This account was challenged in a book by Aaron Klein, who claims that Al-Gashey died of heart failure in the 1970s, and that Safady was either killed by Christian Phalangists in Lebanon in the early 1980s, or, according to a PLO operative friendly with Safady, is still alive ( as of 2005 ).

Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

Orient House (; bayt ʾal-šarq ) is a building located in East Jerusalem that served as the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) in the 1980s and 1990s.

Pot-limit Omaha is often abbreviated as " PLO.

Pot-limit Omaha ( shortened to PLO ) is popular in Europe, online, and in high-stakes " mixed games " played in some American casinos.

Even more so than Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, PLO is a game of drawing, if you are drawing, to the nut hand.

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The Palestinian National Covenant or Palestinian National Charter (; transliterated: al-Mithaq al-Watani al-Filastini ) is the charter or constitution of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ).

The Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) (; ) is a political and paramilitary organization which was created in 1964.

The original PLO Charter ( issued on 28 May 1964 ) stated that " Palestine with its boundaries that existed at the time of the British mandate is an integral regional unit " and sought to " prohibit ... the existence and activity " of Zionism.

There is disagreement among historians, journalists, and primary sources about the nature of the BSO and the extent to which it was controlled by Fatah, the PLO faction controlled at the time by Yasser Arafat.

The denial described in Abu Iyad's claim was mutual: according to a 1972 article in the Jordanian newspaper Al-Dustur, Mohammed Daoud Oudeh, also known as Abu Daoud, a BSO operative and former senior PLO member, told Jordanian police: " There is no such organization as Black September.

Currently the PFLP is boycotting participation in the Executive Committee of the PLO.

* The film Munich includes a scene reflecting the real Barak's experience leading his Sayeret Matkal unit in the commando raid Operation Spring of Youth ; he is mentioned by name, and appears disguised as a woman in high heels while firing on presumed PLO Leaders.

March 21, 1968: In response to persistent PLO raids against Israeli civilian targets, Israel attacks the town of Karameh, Jordan, the site of a major PLO camp, but is met with resistance by Jordanian and PLO forces.

The foundation is funded by an undisclosed settlement paid by the PLO to the Klinghoffers to settle a lawsuit seeking damages for the PLO's role in the hijacking ( Klinghoffer v. PLO, 739 F. Supp.

Hamilton is again working with the PLO military intelligence, and takes part in an operation to blow up the warhead inside Libya, as well as kill all the western scientists helping Muammar al-Gaddafi getting the bomb operational.

It is also used by groups such as Hezbollah, al-Quds Brigades, Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ).

Lebanon however historically had a small cosmetic army that was never effective in defending Lebanon's territorial integrity, and this is why in later years the PLO guerrilla factions had found it easy to enter Lebanon and set up bases, as well as takeover army barracks on the border with Israel as early as 1968.