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1. long, narrow cigarettes and ate plo v
2. “We pushed the PLO out, only to have the Hezbollah come in and take their place
3. We had a business arrangement on behalf of a client to purchase some of the, quote, babies that you supply, unquote, for the PLO
4. “I have a particular client in the Bahamas who has friends who are sympathetic to the cause of the PLO, and he wants to help his friends help their friends in the PLO
5. Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist turned Christian
6. been over a 100 “cease fires” agreed to by the PLO, Fatah and Hamas
7. before he died, the present administration could arrange funds to PLO and
8. They leave too little time for anything to be done to stop them—just enough for him to understand that July 14 was only the leading edge, that the KGB or the PLO or some other letters will be blamed, and struck, and strike back, and be struck back, until ultimately everything he’s ever known is consumed
9. War’n’terror – the PLO
10. In 1964 the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was formed to try to unite these different groups
11. After the Six Day War (see the earlier section ‘Six days that shook the world’), the PLO had to clear out of the West Bank and move to Jordan
12. The Arab states soon learned that the PLO were difficult and dangerous guests
13. The PFLP’s most spectacular attack was a mass hijacking of three international airliners in 1970, designed to force the British, German, and Swiss governments to release PLO terrorists captured during previous hijacking attempts
14. The Dawson’s Field hijacking (see previous section) was the last straw: Within days King Hussein of Jordan declared martial law and sent the Royal Jordanian Army in to destroy the PLO bases
15. After a week of heavy fighting the king’s men won: the PLO had to pull out and move to Lebanon, where they caused even more trouble (see the later section ‘The Killing Grounds of Lebanon’)
16. But despite his terrorist image he preferred to work through negotiation; many of the rival Palestinian liberation groups within the PLO got fed up with him and said he wasn’t militant enough, though most Israelis thought he was, thank you very much
17. To his followers within the PLO Arafat was a hero, standing up fearlessly for the Palestinian cause on the world stage
18. In 1974 he persuaded the Arab League and the United Nations to recognise the PLO as the only legitimate voice of the Palestinian people
19. But Al Fatah’s rivals within the PLO, and some historians too, thought Arafat was seriously overrated
20. Under him the PLO kept getting expelled from front-line countries like Jordan and Lebanon, ending up in Tunisia, which isn’t exactly round the corner from Palestine
21. It invited the Israelis and the PLO to Oslo where, in 1993, they drew up a set of agreements to make peace
22. So it was that on 13 September 1993, on the White House lawn and with Clinton spreading his arms out behind them, the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and the PLO leader Yasser Arafat shook hands
23. The PLO recognises Israel and accepts its right to exist
24. Which, for the PLO, was quite an admission
25. This time Hezbollah (the Lebanese militant group; see the later section ‘The Army of God’) got involved, providing the Palestinians with weapons, as did a radical Palestinian group called Hamas, who thought the PLO had gone soft and was never going to get anywhere
26. Once the (Muslim) PLO moved its base to Lebanon in 1970 after it was thrown out of Jordan, the Lebanese Muslims started demanding changes: They wanted the constitution altered to give most power to them
27. The PLO supported the Muslims, but the Christians were afraid of what would happen if they gave up their power, so they said no
28. The Syrians, who didn’t trust the PLO as far as they could spit, were worried that the Palestinians were setting up bases along their border, so they sent troops in to help the Christians (who were fighting the Palestinians – do try to keep up) so as to keep the Palestinians concentrated in the south, along the Israeli border, where they couldn’t threaten Syria
29. In 1978 the Israelis, who didn’t want the PLO along their border, invaded to help the Christians (who were fighting their enemies the Palestinians, remember)
30. The Israelis were hoping to turn Lebanon into a sort of puppet state, but the Lebanese hadn’t waved goodbye and good riddance to the PLO only to be taken over by the Israelis
31. With the Israelis and the PLO both out of the picture, the Lebanese themselves had to try to restore some order and stability to their country
32. When the PLO were abandoning terrorism for the negotiating table, Assad provided a base for the Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal to launch attacks against Israeli and Western targets, but when Syria’s Soviet support collapsed in 1989, Assad tried to open up links with the West
33. 1993: Yitzhak Rabin signs the Oslo Accords with Yasser Arafat agreeing to pull out of the West Bank but in 1995 Rabin is assassinated by an Israeli opposed to any sort of deal with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)
