"Arafat's attendance at the funeral needs very complicated preparations, " the PLO leader's spokesman said.
"Hamas in this sense is not that much different from the PLO, " he says.
This and other groups eventually operated under the PLO, an umbrella organization formed in 1964.
In 1982, Blitzer was in Beirut during the withdrawal of PLO and Syrian forces.
Ms. DIANA BUTTU (Former Legal Advisor, PLO): At this point in time, the answer is no.
From now on, the PLO will be allowed to fly its flag like a regular embassy.
In 1982, an Israeli military offensive expelled most of the PLO infrastructure from Lebanon.
W. Bush cancel US recognition of the PLO and end its dialogue with the terror group.
PLO-Israeli negotiations that led to the signing of the Oslo accords in September 1993.
What Dahlan's remarks made clear is that the PLO's recognition of Israel was an optical illusion.
After the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO, Iran abandoned Arafat as a traitor.
The Hashemites still remember how with Syrian support, the PLO in 1970 attempted to overthrow them.
In spite of repeated Israeli demands for action, PLO-Fatah never ended its support for jihadist anti-Semitism.
Rep. Ros-Lehtinen grilled representatives of the GAO on their classified report on PLO finances.
At the time Israelis were prohibited by law from maintaining any contact whatsoever with PLO members.
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The early '70s were also boom years for PLO terrorism on the international stage.
Lebanese Christians, particularly, resented suffering the Israeli retaliations that the PLO's cross-border raids provoked.
PLO, a body that once made history but has long since passed its best-before date.
Within a few short years, however, it was usurped by the PLO and Yasir Arafat.
They were sentenced to life imprisonment and released 24 hours later to the PLO.
PLO's leader, Yasser Arafat, in the mid-1980s, forced by both Israel and Syria, left a power vacuum.
Also in attendance as non-voting participants were representatives of eleven "national liberation" movements, notably including the PLO.
In '82 it was the PLO and Arafat that was a base for terrorist operations against Israel.
If Damascus is the state equivalent of the PLO, then Teheran is the state equivalent of Hamas.
It is no longer credible to claim that the PLO has abandoned terror in favor of peace.
By engaging in peace talks with the PLO, Netanyahu renders it impossible to make this critical claim.
So by making this their precondition for negotiations, the PLO is doing what it did in 2000.
It is not the PLO that needs to quit the terror business in order to be acceptable.
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Second, like Fatah-PLO, neither Egypt nor Jordan would have any interest in protecting Israel from Palestinian terrorists.
And it set the framework for the disastrous Oslo peace process with the PLO 15 years later.
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