at the crowds in tahrir square talking. to us if something happens anywhere in the world al-jazeera is in place we're able to cover news like no other news organizations. were able to do it properly. and that is our strength. in one thousand nine hundred forty eight the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. sixteen years later in one thousand nine hundred sixty four the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions that p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. the.

expelled from jordan and then never been on the p.l.o. seem to be running out of options. forced into a corner its leader yasser arafat soon found himself in gauged in a fratricidal fight for the control of the p.l.o. and for his life. with the withdrawal of the bulk of its forces from beirut the p.l.o. was in limbo once again few out of countries wanted to welcome thousands of palestinian fighters for the first time the p.l.o. is existence in exile would be without the military force that had characterized it stays in jordan and lebanon. the price of defeat in beirut soon appeared before artifact the weakened p.l.o. leader found himself under attack from palestinian leaders within the p.l.o.

and even from within his own father faction. the critics said arafat's style of leadership was too autocratic and they accused him of abandoning the revolution by evacuating beirut and seeking going to go sheeted settlement. yes i offered to lead to any argument that you have to set up yes that arafat wants to abandon the struggle we want to continue but he came to damascus and attempted a coup in fattal to kill the revolution which we want to preserve arafat has sold out because he is no longer interested in the revolution. syria which had always wished to make the p.l.o. subservient to its will sought to exploit vulnerability. every defeat has a price and the part of the price was the split at the time syria tried to settle a score with the p.l.o. leadership that's what transpired was a syrian attempt to dominate palestinian decision later that should direct syrian

intervention or through serious palestinian tool that was met with there is a defense of independence of palestinian decision making. the syrian intervention found the third child breeding ground of differences and power struggles with them further. and you have a medal for the s.s.e. if you shut up that it was. out of our birds a direct responsibility for that split in the p.l.o. to confront that there were two choices that arafat's made the choice that there exist in swells futile. palestinian opponents start a fight for breakaway groups splitting from out of for its main front a faction one group called itself fatah and the father syria and libya were only too willing to support the rebels. the tensions within the p.l.o. were rising the battle lines of a fratricidal struggle were beginning to appear. and.

let it affect them at objectively speaking in the beginning the demands made to arafat's were just demands and possible to realize i presented them to him he said he could accept them but he distrusted the intentions of his opponents and i conveyed his acceptance to fatah intifada it was very obvious that they had no intention to arrive at an understanding i was convinced of there was a conspiracy and the other split serve the interest of certain our countries it was a joint syria libyan decision. hona but that that that was what. we called for a dialogue to resolve the differences between both wings of fattah that was rejected by arafat's components in fact to happen to. that they thought they could take complete control of fattah and the other hand artifacts factor that was initially receptive to our proposal. arafat's arch rival abu nidal quickly

allied himself with the anti out of fat faction. in april of one nine hundred eighty three at a meeting in portugal the abu nidal organization assassinated by some subtle we three leading p.l.o. moderate and artifact representative who had been negotiating with his radio. israeli leadership on peres also in attendance was left alone are. enough to. a. week or so i thought was assassin later on also him in tunis and i asked him why he hadn't also shot that is he said he's ordered to kill some power we only saw one day i hope to write an article about abu nidal and i would call it who is a traitor the murderer or the victim the victim was innocent and honorable a man who knew where his people's interests lay but the murderer was a tool and a traitor abu nidal discredited the palestinian cause in the eyes of the world when in one thousand nine hundred five two of his european cells attacked rome and

vienna airports killing eighteen and wounding a hundred and forty people. a cia document at the time claimed that abu nidal had not attacked a single israeli target back here. back in june one thousand nine hundred three when it was syria declared on a shot persona non-grata and expelled him from damascus the break was cemented. so what's going on now. i think here you have to go there on the field and just have a go said that they're going to. do you mean exactly as at the point. that. they were you know i am very. i have a meeting here after the meeting i really want meeting with know. and with the thing and the president hear about it. but. i respect that but you have to wait and see. i think the command. going on now anything is

going in an extent way ok ok thank you. forward to sort of. fame and back. food. bias to be out of. it out that in the us a do allow to be a bus. a minute a minute than. what they need but the studio. well. with very much on the. face so what if you will still. be sure of those but no one can harm fatah fatah is very strong and no one can harm its leadership or unity we cannot be dictated to it

would be very easy to get on a plane and go and surrender to syrian president. i assure you if i did that both problems on the factions would vanish but we are against this for the sake of our people and the dignity of this movement and this model kind of he said. half as our last side had grand strategic calculations he viewed the palestinian issue as his will to god and preserve there is no such thing as the independence of palestinian decision making in the syrian lexicon. syria's foreign minister once told me so have you had a palestine something syria. in july nine hundred eighty three fighting broke out in the bekaa valley in lebanon between pro and anti out of front forces on a fact now faced an armed through vote against his authority by pro series elements within the p.l.o. . i felt loyalists who had found their way back to lebanon were besieged by the syrian army and its palestinian allies in the city of tripoli in north lebanon.

in a daring errancy journey from his new headquarters into the sea or out of that managed to slip into tripoli in disguise and join these. pro syrian palestinians responded immediately. i mean motel. daddy if you yeah well that the body and how do you get in for this teeny. to having it in for. what the. what do you find the now. as. well. why did he well. enough see why shaaban for this new human home the defense of tripoli was led by artifacts deputy. better known as abu jihad it so they're not that of the syrian dissident this is he rejected the

description of the ongoing battle as a purely palestinian affair you're seeing this out of what's think is that it's the tank from of the syrian army you see your car look you can follow it it's. fifty fair you see it if you're coming from the city i'm not a museum to them and they are to. sit in command but as you see. on a factual prominence kept up that tax they have the support among palestinians in the occupied territory. looking to me to get to and what we can see that yasser arafat used to be a symbol for our people but the people are beginning to gradually see the truth and realize what is happening to this person who is interested as a fighter for the independence of palestinian decision making is now abusing his position to make. such claims were not borne out by facts on the

ground palestinians in the west bank in gaza rallied around on a fact who expressed the philosophical view of the ongoing conflict you have to understand what the meaning of the war is a loud voice for policy. the loud voice of politics was taking a heavy toll on the residents of tripoli. faced with mounting pressure to end the conflict saudi arabia's foreign minister traveled to damascus and announced an agreement had been reached and hostilities and evacuating out of us forces from tripoli we have. reached an agreement. here based on the two principles that. it is read to these principles weird. prevent. any destruction of the city of tripoli and stop the fighting between the factions tripoli and call for the withdrawal of armed force and

a syrian armed forces out of tripoli well these principles have been enunciated in this. in this document. the united nations made arrangements for a lot of fat and four thousand of his fighters to depart the coastal lebanese city on board five green shifts. following his second expulsion from lebanon on a fact once more defined the enforced exile as another step towards victory this is a part of the long march. out independent. states. still are kept that palestine got to settle beyond the rhetoric

out of five seemed to spend twice. what the elusive palestinian leader had another card up his sleeve. shorter friends out of fact traveled to cairo to meet egyptian president hosni mubarak it was a bold and dramatic act out of fact became the first arab leader to meet an egyptian president since former president and warsaw that had signed a peace treaty with israel in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine the arab world was thunderstruck. he felt long and hard but do not imagine that it was an easy decision for him he knew that he would antagonize the fact leadership now because he didn't consult them and he knew that syria would end him a traitor and not in the end as he always did made the decision because he was convinced that it served a higher interest of the palestinian people. but he was fully aware of the disks it entailed and that the people who loved and supported him find it

incomprehensible i thought to visit was a diplomatic coup for mubarak and in subsequent years egypt would increasingly become the p.l.o. his main patron out of touch opponents within the p.l.o. accused him of betraying the palestinian cause syria castigated him as a traitor under attack out of that sort of political refuge with his former adversaries king hussein of jordan since the p.l.o. is expulsion from jordan relations between the two leaders had always been uneasy but out of fact and king hussein now came together in an uneasy alliance the king allowed the palestinian parliament in exile to convene in the jordanian capital amman in one nine hundred eighty four. this proved a lifeline try to fight his ability to convene the palestine national council with the required one allowed him to maintain the legitimacy of his leadership of the p.l.o. . bath now unlawful in

a thirty minute that measured we looked for locations to hold the p. and c. meeting there were suggestions of holding it on board the ship it was the session of the p. and c. hadn't taken place the p.l.o. wouldn't have finished and tell us any legitimacy last so in spite of our reservations it was convened and i'm on. the jordanian p.l.o. repr small led to the signing of the i-man accord in february one thousand nine hundred five according to its terms the p.l.o. and jordan would form a joint delegation to future negotiations for resolving the out of israeli conflict syria opposed the accord and sought to exact retribution for out of its move once again lebanon was the battleground. the syrian backed a militia and anti out of fact factions besieged the palestinian refugee camps in beirut and southern lebanon. the camps were subjected to an on and off siege and onslaught for the next three years. i can think. of them

all and with it out that that. could not have become involved had the syrians not asked them that a quest was made to sever lebanese but is that the client to have that is possibility of shedding palestinian blood on their hands and accepted the task the fighting and the how doing the experiences for the refugees would be termed the camps war. there what criminals there two. palestinian women were being shot in the head as they went for water deliberate. and those criminals are walking around us among us today i can remember the savitri i can remember one day with so many armor were firing so many machine guns i mean you know weapons into the camp that there was a rustling sound like. they go probably. and it took me

several minutes to realize what it was they were firing so many bullets that the bullets were touching each other in the air as they were going into the camp walls of steel all touching each other all the bullets rustling like silk being torn up you know one hair was shot in the leg as she was trying to bring in food through the answers that they now call the death passage and another lady here who has affected him she was shot in the head they're forced to go out still to bring in food and almost every day women are shot comparisons were being drawn between the sub and shatila massacres and the new camps war. had a bit. of a law that. said that war was very bloody and lasted a long time the massacres perpetrated against the palestinian people in that war well worse than sabra and shatila massacre it was

a wholesale destruction and indiscriminate kill. the ama leadership should apologize to the palestinian people if you genuinely wants closure we have a record of everything names and numbers and managed to crawl in from outside they were also from outside they call it in as the sand hills and this is the second time that these girls are planning to come in in this way. because. it was. on the wrong road out was.

the. we feel that nobody is feeling the. suffering here is just the siege to continue killing the people i can see any political future or any. victories for those who are seeding the camp or even we can say that our people inside the camp is not looking for victory just looking for peace. and to live in a secure and of a life long way and i hope that the world around us can hear this for us and try to help our people to lift the siege. out of that suffered a further blow when israeli warplanes raided his p.l.o. headquarters in tunisia killing one hundred sixty people. yet

again artifacts survived. the p.l.o. leader continued to be elusive in political matters as well. jordan's repeated attempts to induce him to honor the terms of the man accords proved futile associates a place of see as it were clear chairman arafat was a mecurio personality but he never kept any agreement he made with an arab country if he found a more lucrative offer elsewhere. when the amen accords he would place the term confederation or the term twinning as in twins. but this term has no basis in international law it was the beginning of the end of the a man accords mckenna shot a firth and though. it was a wee iffy at the upper valley that i felt had no real intention to commit to the i mean that it was more of a maneuver than a real attempt at finding

a solution i went to him to sign a document pertaining to the amount of callers asked for some time to come for with the p.l.o. leadership left and didn't return so we had a joke about him in the way that one what which article me of forcing me from this having had enough jordan announced the abrogation of the man accords almost one year after they had been signed. the jordanian severely curtailed the activities of the p.l.o. and expelled abu jihad. over satisfied to hear to this even in. a statement that was made public by one of the members of the cabinet in jordan the day and then to close twenty four. out of the dirty to be a law office in jordan. to post more straight shoes on day activities of the p.l.o.

agent. we are not in the oil cage as some are thinking if we are in lebanon or in jail or been having some problems in syria that will not put an end for the p.l.o. or for a palestinian struggle we are still alive if it were as palestinian people who are still alive in our occupied territories facing the israeli occupation despite jordanian frustration many palestinians believe don i thought had accomplished a masterpiece to fuck a man a bit in the ass out of the man accords was a brilliant tactical maneuver executed by yes i refer that he used it to gain some breathing space he established relations with jordan signed the agreement and then abrogated it. i was expecting that it's condition from the going to show that i got as far out of found himself he feigned ignorance as to want to go wrong but it

seemed that spite of all a lot of effort still cordell in. insisting that just a business which would effect fit in data or directly. your definition that addiction. but i'd have to pay the price of his political move at an arab summit in amman in one thousand nine hundred seventy didn't hussein refused to receive the palestinian leader at the airport as well as this diplomatic snub the palestinian issue was relegated to the periphery of the agenda and in fact departed claiming he was satisfied with the results of the summit but he appeared to have reached the limits of his tactical capabilities. but as before the p.l.o. leader from lifeline. it was to come from an unexpected source.

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