" 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 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.

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 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.

The PLO closed Black September down on September 1973, on the anniversary it was created by the " political calculation that no more good would come of terrorism abroad " according to Morris ( ibid.

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.

The only group that waged uninterrupted attrition against Arafat was the Fatah Revolutionary Council led by maverick hardliner Sabri al-Banna ( better known as Abu Nidal ), who was viewed by other Palestinian organizations as not so much a guerrilla as a pure criminal with no higher goal than deposing the moderates at the head of the PLO.

Referring to it as a " common epithet ", Eric Sundquist indicates that it " echoed the Arab view, repeated in the core doctrine of the PLO, that Israel was no state at all but an illegal colonialist excrescence ".

However as Rex Brynen makes clear in his publication on the PLO, these militias were nothing more than " shop-fronts " or in Arabic " Dakakin " for Fatah, armed gangs with no ideological foundation and no organic reason for their existence save the fact their individual members were put on PLO / Fatah payroll.

The fine was paid, but the sentence was never served beucase, while the legal process was ongoing, the law had changed and it was no longer illegal to meet with members of the PLO.

However, the belief in the ultimate necessity of Israel's destruction and / or its Zionist foundation ( i. e. its existence as specifically Jewish state ) is still advocated by many, such as the religiously motivated Hamas movement, although no longer by the PLO leadership.

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 ).

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.

Because of Lebanon's weak central government, the PLO was able to operate virtually as an independent state.

Bachir, with his KRF militia units, also fought against the PLO and LNM militias at the Battle of the Hotels in central Beirut.

The group argued that the Oslo negotiations were undemocratic, excluded the PLO from decision-making and deprived the Palestinians of their legitimate rights, but in contrast to most other Alliance members they did not oppose a two-state solution as such.

Logistic support and training were allegedly carried out directly by the Czechoslovak StB both in Prague and at remote PLO training camps in North Africa and Syria.

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.

In August 1968, he led an attempt to make PLA Syria brigades more independent of Syrian control, and was made PLA chief-of-staff by the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) Executive Committee.

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.

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.

The PLO took advantage of its control southern Lebanon in order to launch Katyusha rocket attacks at Galilee villages and execute terror attacks on the northern border.

The plan was eventually ruled out after the PLO and other Arab states strongly opposed the plan and after Israel rejected the notion of transferring the control of East Jerusalem to such a federation.

As a result of the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), the town came under the Palestinian National Authority's control on 10 December 1995.

In 1993, with the transfer of increased control of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem from Israel to the Palestinians, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat appointed Sulaiman Ja ' abari as Grand Mufti.

Finding himself once again in a position of power, he began wrestling for control of the ideologically diverse movement, and of the PLO, pitted against PLO chairman and PNA president Mahmoud Abbas.

The Israeli plan was to drive the PLO away from the Israeli border and help Bachir Gemayel's Phalangist militia take control of south Lebanon.

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

Assad himself sought to control the PLO and Lebanon.

The results were mitigated since the PLO retained control of some of the camps.

* 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.

In 1970, after their expulsion from Jordan during Black September, the PLO began taking control over southern Lebanon and breaking the tranquility that resided in the area.