Mr. Arafat used the estimated 20, 000 Palestine Liberation Organization fighters in Jordan to exercise control over much of the Palestinian population.
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In 1993, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed a peace agreement outlining a plan for Palestinian self-rule in the occupied territories.
Glick was one of Israel's negotiators with the Palestine Liberation Organization, 1994-1996.
During Arafat's illness, Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei was in charge of the Palestinian Authority, while Mahmoud Abbas led the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee.
Another source of sub-rosa funds: the Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by Mahmoud Abbas and its treasurer, Ahmed Qurei, the PA prime minister-both possible Arafat successors.
"This incident should open the door to all sorts of investigation and accountabilities, " said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee.
The Soviet Union was an important backer of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, and Syria, and other countries seen as antagonistic to Washington at the time.
The point is that there is more to the U.S.-Israeli relationship than whether Israel is going to relinquish territory to Syria or the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has requested from the Government of Switzerland permission to become a party to the latest international conventions on the humanitarian laws of war.
Arafat dominated Middle East politics by keeping a tight grip on the major Palestinian political institutions over the last three decades, from the Palestine Liberation Organization to the Palestinian Authority.
Mohammad Shtayyeh, a member of the central committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the relief committee for the Palestinians in Syria, condemned the loss of life in Yarmouk.
But Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, who shared a Nobel Peace prize with Rabin and expressed shock at "this awful, terrible crime, " will not attend the funeral for security reasons.
Evidently neither was the possibility that the United States, by leading a diplomatic attack on Israel, would simply encourage the Palestine Liberation Organization, Saddam Hussein and other radical elements to incite further strife.
That agreement specified that no member of the Palestine Liberation Organization will be arrested or brought to court for any action that happened prior to September 13, 1993, the day the Oslo accord was signed, Erakat said.
They point to successes in supporting Boris Yeltsin in Russia and the forging of a peace between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization as evidence of effective stewardship in international matters -- particularly those of great strategic importance to the United States.
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