The Palestinian Liberation Organisation Intelligence Report Origins Between the two major wars of 1948 and 1967 the Palestinians believed that the neighbouring

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The Palestinian Liberation Organisation

Intelligence Report

Origins

Between the two major wars of 1948 and 1967 the Palestinians believed that the neighbouring Arab states would conquer the Israeli's and gain back their land. However as time went by the Arabs made no advance and the Palestinians became restless, so they thought up others ways of attacking their enemy. The Palestinians exiles in Kuwait set up their own organisation in 1959 to fight the Israeli's and defend Palestinian rights, it's name; "Fatah", it's leader; Yasser Arafat. By the 1960's Fatah had developed into an active fighting force. Then in 1964 the Arab governments saw that their people were determined and decided to create an organisation to represent the Palestinians it was called the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organisation). However their efforts were unrewarded as the Israeli six day war was victorious. Due to such humiliation the Fatah decided to change their methods of war. In 1968 with the help of the Jordanian army, the Fatah successfully fought against a n Israeli attack in Karama, a village in Jordan. The Fatah were now even more recognised and joined with the PLO to create an independent voice for the Palestinian people.
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Structure

The PLO is composed of many different guerrilla groups but headed by the Fatah organisation (the largest group). The chairman of the PLO has been Yasser Arafat since 1968. There were many other groups under the umbrella of the PLO that often followed a different policy to the PLO, many of them being Syrian. They include, the Syrian- backed As Saiqa and the PFLP (Marxist- oriented Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the PFLP-GC (the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command) and the DFLP (the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine). ...

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