"Arafat's attendance at the funeral needs very complicated preparations, " the PLO leader's spokesman said.
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.
In 1982, an Israeli military offensive expelled most of the PLO infrastructure from Lebanon.
PLO-Israeli negotiations that led to the signing of the Oslo accords in September 1993.
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.
By engaging in peace talks with the PLO, Netanyahu renders it impossible to make this critical claim.
Obama's first phone call to a foreign leader was to PLO chieftain Mahmoud Abbas last Wednesday morning.
The leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has left his Beirut headquarters after more than a decade.
In an attempt to appease this opposition, Netanyahu signed the 1998 Wye Plantation Memorandum with PLO chief Yasser Arafat.
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Husseini was a top Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) official and a central figure in its campaign for Palestinian statehood.
The PLO issued a statement after the meeting criticizing Netanyahu for failing to more explicitly endorse a two-state solution.
For years the EU had criticized Israel for refusing to recognize the PLO.
Qorei was named head of the PLO's executive committee's economic department in 1983.
This ideology is shared by PLO-Fatah and is widely popular among the Palestinians.
The idea being that if the PLO were brought into the government, the international community would lift the economic embargo.
Another implication of the Israeli-PLO agreement concerns expectations of sizeable new U.S. financial support intended to help assure its success.
Thousands of Palestinians who remain in Beirut cheered Mr Arafat as he left the former PLO offices for the port.
This reassessment has also provoked a discussion of the PLO-Fatah's own failures since it formed the Palestinian Authority in 1994.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered Defense Minister Ariel Sharon to send Israel's armed forces into Lebanon to drive out the PLO.
Until the onset of the Oslo peace process with the PLO in 1993, May 15 was generally overlooked by Israeli Arabs.
The PLO withdrawal was completed by August 30, and the MNF departed on September 10, but the story did not end there.
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The PLO then launched frequent attacks on Israel from their Lebanese bases, prompting two Israeli invasions of Lebanon (in 1978 and 1982).
Arafat and the PLO flee Lebanon in August and settle in Tunis, Tunisia, where they remain until moving to Gaza in 1994.
Although Bush had been a great champion of US-PLO relations, he had no choice but to agree to this obviously justified demand.
Today, the world has been turned on its head to the point where even asking fundamental questions about PLO compliance is taboo.
The Jordanian response, from which one of the PLO's most notorious brigades was to take its name, became known as Black September.
PLO-affiliated conglomerates, including one controlled by Ahmed Qurei, who would later negotiate the Oslo Accords, monopolized everything from shoes to baby food.
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