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.

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.

From the early 1980s the DFLP was seen as the most pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese of the PLO member organisations.

In 1979 an uneasy peace was established with Egypt, based on the Camp David Accords and in 1993 peace treaties were signed with the PLO and in 1994 with Jordan.

Benny Morris writes that a target list was created using information from “ turned ” PLO personnel and friendly European intelligence services.

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 ).

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.

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.

Following a 1963 Draft Constitution the first version of the Charter was written by Ahmad Shukeiri, the first chairman of the PLO, using the slightly different name al-Mithaq al-Qawmi al-Filastini, meant to reflect its origins in Nasser's Pan-Arabism.

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.

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

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

Palestinian statehood was not mentioned, although in 1974 the PLO called for an independent state in the territory of Mandate Palestine.

Yasser Arafat was the Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee from 1969 until his death in 2004.

Initially, as an armed guerrilla organization, the PLO was responsible for terrorist activities performed against Israel in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Concluding this meeting the PLO was founded on 2 June 1964.

Due to the influence of the Egyptian President Nasser, the PLO supported ' Pan-Arabism ', as advocated by him – this was the ideology that the Arabs should live in one state.

Officially, the PLO acceptance of Israel's right to exist in peace was the first of the PLO's obligations in the Oslo Accords.

Syria was invited into Lebanon by that country's president in 1976, to intervene on the side of the Lebanese government against a rebellion of PLO and Lebanese forces.

Tunisia served as the headquarters of the Arab League from 1979 to 1990 and hosted the Palestine Liberation Organization's ( PLO ) headquarters from 1982 to 1993, when the PLO Executive Committee relocated to Jericho and the Palestinian Authority was established after the signing of the Oslo Accords.

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.

However, evidence throughout history and even during the 1990s and 2000s have shown that the PLO leadership considered any peace made with Israel to be temporary until the dream of Israel's destruction could be realized.

Arafat considered Abu Jihad a PLO counterweight to local Palestinian leadership, and led a funeral procession for him in Damascus.

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.

There were more than 240 PLO attacks against Israeli targets, and Israel considered them violations of the ceasefire.

Kuwait announced that it had no intention of putting the hijackers on trial, and initially considered releasing the hijackers to the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ).

Beblawi highlights the case of Egypt whose receipt of financial aid from oil rich neighbours declined significantly after Camp David, and money going instead to Iraq, Syria and the PLO who were considered more assertive.

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 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.

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

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.

In 1983, the Arab Scientific Association, a PLO affiliated organization led by Faisal Husseini, rented a part of the house.

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

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.

The PLO has a nominal legislative body, the Palestinian National Council ( PNC ), but most actual political power and decisions are controlled by the PLO Executive Committee, made up of 18 people elected by the PNC.

In 1988, however, the PLO officially endorsed a two-state solution, contingent on terms such as making East Jerusalem capital of the Palestinian state and giving Palestinians the right of return to land occupied by Palestinians prior to 1948, as well as the right to continue armed struggle until the end of " The Zionist Entity.

* PLO Political Program Adopted at the 12th Session of the Palestine National Council Cairo, 8 June 1974 published by the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations

* 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.

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.

This tarnished Arafat's image in many western nations, including the United States, who held him responsible for controlling Palestinian factions that belonged to the PLO.

Prime Minister of Israel | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, President of the United States | United States President Bill Clinton, and Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) Chairman Yasser Arafat during the signing of the Oslo Accords on 13 September 1993.

Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO head Yasser Arafat with the president of the United States Bill Clinton at 2000 Camp David Summit | Camp David Summit, 2000

The documents themselves were signed by Mahmoud Abbas for the PLO, foreign Minister Shimon Peres for Israel, U. S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher for the United States and foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev for Russia.

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.

The agreement, in effect a component of a comprehensive peace treaty, built on the foundations of the initial Oslo Accords, formally known as the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements which had been formally signed on September 13, 1993 by Israel and the PLO, with Prime Minister Rabin and Chairman Arafat in Washington, D. C. shaking hands, and officially witnessed by the United States and Russia.

As far back as 1988, the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) issued a " declaration of statehood ” and changed the name of its observer delegation to the United Nations from the PLO to Palestine.

In the December 1965, Pachachi was presented with a plaque by the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) " in recognition and appreciation of his dedication to and distinguished services for Palestine in the United Nations.

** 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.

Following this declaration, the United States and many other countries recognized the PLO.

EU countries and the United States threatened to hold an economic boycott on the PalesA if Hamas will not recognize Israel's existence, not renounce terrorism and shall support the peace agreements signed between the PLO and Israel in the past.

The Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) itself enlisted the Khartoum Resolution to advocate against acceptance of Israel's right to exist as articulated in United Nations Security Council Resolution 242.

The Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) is an " official " national liberation movement, meaning that it holds official recognition of its legal status as such from the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) and the United Nations ( UN ).

In July, Egypt and Jordan accepted the U. S .- backed Rogers Plan that called for a cease fire in the War of Attrition between Egypt and Israel and for Israel's negotiated withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967, according to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, but the plan mentioned the West Bank to be under King Hussein's authority and that was unacceptable for the more radical organizations ; the PLO, George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), and Naif Hawatmeh's Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) opposed the plan, criticized and scandalized Nasser.

The Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum, full name: The Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum on Implementation Timeline of Outstanding Commitments of Agreements Signed and the Resumption of Permanent Status Negotiations was a memorandum signed on September 4, 1999 by Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat at Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, overseen by the United States represented by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.