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 1992 David Mellor, a cabinet minister, had been exposed as having an extramarital affair, and for accepting hospitality from the daughter of a leading member of the PLO.

In the wake of the war, Kuwait expelled most of the 400, 000 – 500, 000 Palestinians, who had been living there, because of PLO support for Iraq.

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.

Under protest from the PLO, Iraq, and Libya, who claimed that because Abu Daoud was traveling to a PLO comrade's funeral he should receive diplomatic immunity, the French government refused a West German extradition request on grounds that forms had not been filled in properly, and put him on a plane to Algeria before Germany could submit another request.

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.

However, due to the hostility of relations between Arafat and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad ( who had previously ousted President Salah Jadid ), the Palestinian fighters crossed the border into Lebanon to join PLO forces in that country, where they set up their new headquarters.

The LNM was led by Kamal Jumblatt, who had a friendly relationship with Arafat and other PLO leaders.

Abu Jihad had previously been assigned the responsibility of the Palestinian territories within the PLO command and according to biographer Said Aburish, had " impressive knowledge of local conditions " in the Israeli-occupied territories.

Arafat's statements were greeted with approval by the US administration, which had long insisted on these statements as a necessary starting point for official discussions between the US and the PLO.

Israel and Jordan made peace without Israel withdrawing from the West Bank, since Jordan had already renounced its claims and recognized the PLO as the sole representative of the Palestinians.

Initially, most of its members were dissidents within Fatah who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern Jordan who continued to fight the Jordanian Army after the PLO leadership withdrew.

By 1979, during what became known as Operation Wrath of God, at least one Mossad unit had assassinated eight PLO members.

The Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) had not brought about any solutions to alleviate Palestinian suffering and in 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the organization had been forced to relocate their offices to Tunis.

However, the Palestinians and Israelis had not yet agreed on the wording of the Letters of Mutual Recognition, which constituted an agreement in which the PLO would acknowledge the state of Israel and pledge to reject violence, and Israel would recognize the ( unelected ) PLO as the official Palestinian authority, allowing Yasser Arafat to return to the West Bank.

According to Charlie Wilson's reference, Israel proliferated the sensitive and advance weapon technology to Pakistan, while reverse engineered the Soviet weapons after Israel had confiscated from PLO during the Lebanon war, and channeled these weapons to Mujahedin.

The meeting was highly controversial, since the United States had already promised Israel that it would not meet directly with the PLO until the PLO recognized Israel's right to exist.

PLO, under the chairmanship of Yasser Arafat, had relocated its headquarters to Tripoli in June 1982.

As early as 1976, Israel had been assisting Lebanese Christian militias in their sporadic battles against the PLO.

The PLO suffered some 200 killed and another 150 were taken prisoner.

Since the 1980s, the mainstream within the PLO have taken the concept of territorial and diplomatic compromise seriously and have showed serious interest in a two-state solution.

* 1969 – United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition ; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

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.

An investigation conducted by the General Accounting Office reported that Arafat and the PLO held over $ 10 billion in assets even at the time when he was publicly claiming bankruptcy.

While still opposed, like all mainstream Israeli leaders in the 1970s and early 1980s, to talks with the PLO, he distanced himself from settlers and spoke of the need for " territorial compromise " over the West Bank and Gaza.

Furthermore, Hussein was suspicious of Sadat's promise to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to hand over the West Bank to the Palestinians in the event of a victory, as he considered the West Bank to be Jordanian territory.

By expelling the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), the removal of Syrian influence over Lebanon, and the installment of a pro-Israeli Christian government led by Bachir Gemayel, Israel hoped to sign a treaty which Menachem Begin promised would give Israel " forty years of peace.

During the period between 1975 and 1976, Jumblatt acted as the main leader of the Lebanese opposition in the war, and with the aid of the PLO the LNM rapidly gained control over nearly 70 % of Lebanon.

Resistance against disintegration: in the early 1970s the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ) attempted to take over Lebanon and turn it into what many perceived as an alternative state for Palestinians.

# In 1975 the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ) attempted to take over Lebanon and turn it into what many perceived as an alternative state for Palestinian refugees that will facilitate their permanent settlement in the country.

Yezid Sayigh documents the early skirmishes which saw the army not only lose control over its barracks to the occupying PLO but also lost many soldiers.

** In January 2006 the militant Hamas organization, classified as a terrorist group by the United States government and other groups, won a landslide victory over the ruling Fatah party which had been in power under the leadership of former PLO chairman Yasser Arafat.

The PLO tried to take over the population of the West Bank, but the Israel Defence Forces ( IDF ) deported them into Jordan, where they began to act against the Jordanian rule ( Palestinians in Jordan comprised about 70 % of the total population, which mostly consisted of refugees ) and from there attacked Israel numerous times, using the infiltration of terrorists and shooting Katyusha rockets.

In 1974 the PLO adopted the Ten Point Program, which called for the establishment of a national authority " over every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated " with the aim of " completing the liberation of all Palestinian territory ".

On June 7, 1986, about a year before the Intifada started, al-Wazir was deported from Amman to Baghdad, eventually moving to Tunisia days after King Hussein declared that efforts in establishing a joint strategy for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict between Jordan and the PLO were over.

When the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ) was founded in 1964, Nasser proclaimed that it would hold authority over Gaza, but that authority was never conferred in practice .. A year later, conscription was instituted for the Palestinian Liberation Army.

Eventually, this number was due to increase in the following months with the inclusion of 23, 900 Palestinian guerrilla fighters from both the Rejectionist Front ( RF ) and mainstream PLO factions, later joined by 4, 400 Lebanese regular soldiers from the Lebanese Arab Army ( LAA ) led by Lt. Ahmed al-Khatib who went over to the LNM-PLO side in January 1976.

At the time, the PLO was based in Tunis and did not have control over any part of Palestine.

Amal also had the advantage over the PLO in terms of equipment, especially armored vehicles.

The PLO commits itself ... to a peaceful resolution of the conflict between the two sides and declares that all outstanding issues relating to permanent status will be resolved through negotiations ... the PLO renounces the use of terrorism and other acts of violence and will assume responsibility over all PLO elements and personnel in order to assure their compliance, prevent violations and discipline violators ... the PLO affirms that those articles of the Palestinian Covenant which deny Israel's right to exist, and the provisions of the Covenant which are inconsistent with the commitments of this letter are now inoperative and no longer valid.

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 ).