winning documentaries and live news i'm not out of here i gotta commend you on hearing is good journalism on ed and on line. in one 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 the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. the little.

expelled from jordan and then eleven 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. as 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 out of 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 artifact 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 got a shock yes that arafat wants to abandon the struggle we want to continue but he came to damascus and attempted a coup in fatah 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 out of facts vulnerability. every defeat has a price and the part of the price was the split at the time syria tried to settle the score with the p.l.o. leadership and 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 lot 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 it happened so the s.s.e. if that if mr. arafat's bird is a direct responsibility for that split in the p.l.o. 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 france main front or 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. to

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 splits 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 fact that was rejected by arafat's components in fact to have until. they thought they could take complete control of fact. then 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 representatives who had been negotiating with israeli. alf's . 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 thought 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 interest 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 that year. in june one thousand nine hundred three when it was syria declared on a shuttle persona non-grata and expelled him from damascus the break was cement. so what's going on now. as you see you have to go there on the field and just have a go said it's going to. do you mean exactly as a. met. there were you know i am very. i have a meeting here after having the thing i really want meeting with no. and with everything and the president here you have an event where. i respect that but you have to wait and see. i think the commander. going on now only

thing is going in an extent way ok ok thank you. you need. food. by us to be out of. it out either the minute i say do it out of the bus. but the minute a minute than. what the new book the studio. when they met on the. race so what if. this was a mistake 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 had the palestinian issue is his to god and preserve there is no such thing as the independence of palestinian decision making in the syrian. syria's foreign minister once told me so and you had to palestine southern syria. in july nine hundred eighty three fighting broke out in the bekaa valley in lebanon between pro and anti out a front force on a fact now faced an armed revolt against his authority by procedure in elements within the pm. 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 there in sea journey from his new headquarters into the sea or out of that managed to slip into tripoli in disguise and join its. pro series palestinians responded immediately. i mean motel. yeah well betty body and carry it in for this teeny. to having it in for. one of the. fine and. well. why did he well. enough see why shaaban finest cluny human. the defense of tripoli was led by artifacts deputy. better known as abu jihad it so they met that of the city and decision 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 bank from the syrian army you see you can look you can follow it it's. just be fair you will see it if it is said coming from the city i'm not a museum them and they are to. see it in command but as you see. on a factual prominence kept up that tax claim they have the support among palestinians in the occupied territory. to me listen to me about that 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 was 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 truth. 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. you should read to these principles weird. prevent. any destruction of the city of tripoli and stop the fighting between the factions tripoli and called for the withdrawal of armed forces at

a syrian armed forces out of tripoli. 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 greek ships. 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 this long march. out independent. states to. the other cup that palestine get us anything beyond the rhetoric

out of five seemed a spent force. like 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 were said 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 or he knew that he would antagonize the fact leadership now because he didn't consult them and he knew that syria will grant 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 felt a 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 adversary 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 trying 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. . bathmat a lawful in

a thirty minute measured we looked for locations to hold the p. and c. meeting and there were suggestions of holding it on board the ship it was the session of the pm she 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. representative 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 fats move once again eleven on was the battleground. the syrian backed a militia and and the other 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. that can change. that of them

all and if it out that i am 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 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 above about it here. 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 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. and another lady here who has affected her she was shot in the hip 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 lot of the law that you know you and i say 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 killing. the ama leadership should apologize to the palestinian people if you genuinely wants closure we have a record of everything names and numbers they 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. he was. on the wrong road out was.

going to. we feel that nobody is feeling but 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 ceding because. even we can see that our people inside the camp is not looking for a victory just looking for peace. and to live in a secure and out 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. and in fact 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. with 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 we feel that the fed had no real intention to commit to the ongoing 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 calls i 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 were shuttled 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. oversell this fight to here to do this even making. a statement that was made public by one of the members of the cabinet in jordan the dain intent to close twenty four i owed of that dirty to be a law office in jordan. to put more strict. on day activities of the p.l.o.

egypt. we are not in the 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 state we are still alive if we were as palestinian people who are still alive in our occupied that into the ceasing the israeli occupation.