" Cuba has also lent support to the prominent Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and the lesser-known Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) both received training from Cuba's General Intelligence Directorate, as well as financial and diplomatic support from the Cuban government.

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.

The group has also dominated various PLO and Palestinian Authority forces and security services which were / are not officially tied to Fatah, but in practice have served as wholly pro-Fatah armed units, and been staffed largely by members.

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 PLO has no central decision-making or mechanism that enables it to directly control its factions, but they are supposed to follow the PLO charter and Executive Committee decisions.

Membership has fluctuated, and some organizations have left the PLO or suspended membership during times of political turbulence, but most often these groups eventually rejoined the organization.

The PLO has complex, often contradictory attitudes toward the peace process.

Since the 1990s, there has been a debate within the PLO as to whether to halt terrorist activities completely or to continue attacking Israel as well as negotiate diplomatically with Israel.

The Daily Star, the leading English language paper in Lebanon, in response to a planned IHR meeting in the country called the IHR " loathsome pseudo-historians " and an " international hate group ," and reported " as one former PLO official has put it, ' with friends like that, we don't need enemies '.

It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), the largest being Fatah.

Although the group was initially a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), it always opposed Yassir Arafat and opposes any political settlement with Israel ; for this reason, it has never participated in the peace process.

Since the mid-1960s and the rise of more organized and specific militant groups, such as the PLO, the word has fallen out of usage, but not in the historical context.

Despite the disappointing conclusion of the 1993 Oslo Accords between the PLO and Israel, and even though the 1994 Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace has not fully normalized relations with Israel, both of these significant developments had little chance of occurring without the precedent set by Camp David.

Mahmoud Abbas (, ; born 26 March 1935 ), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (, ), has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 on the Fatah ( فتح Fataḥ ) ticket.

At the same time he has performed diplomatic duties, presenting a moderating face for PLO policies.

Use by the latter became " less prominent " in the late 1980s after the Camp David Accords and PLO recognition of Israel, but has since become common again.

He has previously served as speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council and held a variety of significant positions within the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) from the 1970s on.

He has opposed settlement activity from the beginning and was among the first to praise the Oslo Accords and talks with the PLO.

" The PLO was considered by the United States and Israel to be a terrorist organization until the Madrid Conference in 1991 but has enjoyed observer status at the United Nations since 1974.

Since the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence, the UN General Assembly has recognized the PLO mission there under the name " Palestine.

By taking a hardline position against Israel, it has helped siphon Palestinian support from the Islamist groups to the Palestinian Authority and PLO leadership.

The PLO also participates in UN Security Council debates ; since 1988, it has represented the Palestinian people at the UN under the name " Palestine ".

The declaration of a State of Palestine () took place in Algiers on November 15, 1988, by the Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ).

However, the organization retains considerable political influence within the PLO, since no new elections have been held for the organisation's legislative body, the PNC.

It had previously been adopted by the Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), by a vote of 253 in favour 46 against and 10 abstentions.

On 2 April 1989, Arafat was elected by the Central Council of the Palestine National Council, the governing body of the PLO, to be the president of the proclaimed State of Palestine.

* Palestinian National Authority, an interim administrative body established by the PLO pursuant to the Oslo Accords of 1993, which exercises limited control of populated areas of the West Bank.

* 1948 – Atef Bseiso, Palestinian PLO head of intelligence ( d. 1992 )

This document, which was accepted by the Palestinian National Council ( PNC ) after lobbying by Fatah and DFLP, cautiously introduced the concept of a two-state solution in the PLO, and caused a split in the organization leading to the formation of the Rejectionist Front, where radical organizations such as the PFLP, PFLP-GC, Palestine Liberation Front and others gathered with the backing of Syria, Libya and Iraq to oppose Arafat and the mainstream PLO stance.

Its efforts ultimately failed, and the PLO became embroiled what was in effect a Palestinian civil war.

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.

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

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.

* 1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

In his autobiography, From Jerusalem to Munich, first published in France in 1999, and later in a written interview with Sports Illustrated, Abu Daoud wrote that funds for Munich were provided by Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO since 11 November 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority since 15 January 2005.

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 Palestinian National Charter was adopted on May 28, 1964, establishing the Palestine Liberation Organization, in ( east ) Jerusalem along with another document, variously known as the Basic Constitution, Basic Law or Fundamental Law of the PLO, based on an earlier Draft Constitution.

Compared to its predecessor, it focused more on the independent national identity and vanguard role of the Palestinian people, led by the PLO, in their " liberation of their homeland " by armed struggle.

: 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.

PLO Chairman Arafat, the Speaker of the Palestine National Council, and the Speaker of the Palestinian Council will invite the members of the PNC, as well as the members of the Central Council, the Council, and the Palestinian Heads of Ministries to a meeting to be addressed by President Clinton to reaffirm their support for the peace process and the aforementioned decisions of the Executive Committee and the Central Council.

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.