smell the way you don't know 6 examined the u.s. and its role in the well we're going to bomb the taliban inside mission and bomb them to the peace table storing gunfire coming from that direction we're going to get out in the cold in the powerful to account doing this film has cancer i know someone that lives here dad can send. folk lines coming soon on al-jazeera. in 1948 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 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 never been on the p.l.o. seem to be running out of options. forced into a corner its leader yasser arafat's 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 1st 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 out of the week and p.l.o. leader found himself under attack from palestinian leaders within the p.l.o.

and even from within his own father factions. 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 got the shot yes that arafat wants to abandon the struggle we want to continue but he came to damascus and attempted a coup and 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 and what transpired was a syrian attempt to dominate palestinian decision later that should direct syrian

intervention or through serious palestinian tools then that was met with there is a low defense of independence of palestinian decision making. the syrian intervention found the 3rd child breeding ground of differences and power struggles within fatah. and it has really s.s.c. if shock that it. out of our bird is a direct responsibility for the split in the p.l.o. there were 2 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 for the 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. in the happy 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 fight the 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 interests of certain our countries it was a joint syria libya and decision. but that that what. we called for a dialogue to resolve the differences between both wings of fact that was rejected by arafat's components and in fact the until. they thought they could take complete control of fattah then the other hand arafat's factor that was initially receptive to our proposal. arafat's arch rival abu nidal quickly allied himself with the anti

out of fact faction. in april of 1983 at a meeting in portugal the abu nidal organization assassinated by some subtle we 3 leading p.l.o. moderate and artifact representatives who had been negotiating with israeli. this. is really leadership on peres also in attendance was left alone are. enough to. a. week or so i thought was assessing later on also him in tunis and i asked him why he hadn't also shot that is he said he's orders were to kill some thought we only saw one day i hope to write an article about abu nidal and some thought 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 19052 of his european cells attacked rome and vienna airports killing 18 and

wounding a 140 people. a cia document at the time claimed that abu nidal had not attacked a single israeli target back here. back in june 1903 when it was syria declared on a shuttle 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 it's going to. do you mean exactly as a. met. there were you know no i am very good evening after i have a meeting here after having the thing i really want meeting with. and with the thing and the president hear about it. but. i respect that 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. female. bias to be out of. it i didn't mean that i say do it out of. a minute. when they met on the. place so what if. this was but no one can harm fatah fatah has 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 the 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 modern kind of peace about. half as our last side had grand strategic calculations he viewed the palestinian issue is his 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 983 fighting broke out in the bekaa valley in lebanon between pro and anti on a front force. now faced an armed through both against his authority by proceeding in 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 norfolk and.

in a daring there in sea journey from his new headquarters into the sea out of that managed to slip into tripoli in disguise and join. pro syrian palestinians responded immediately. i mean motel. well betty body and carry it in for this to meet. the heavy it in. one of the. fine and not in. well. why did he well. enough see why shaaban finest cluny human home the defense of tripoli was led by artifacts deputy. better known

as abu jihad it so they met that of the syrian 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 to you as to the defeat of this sad coming from the city i'm not a museum to them and they. see it in command but as you see. on a factual prominence kept up that tax they have the support among palestinians in the occupied territories. looking to meet with 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 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 2 principles that. do 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 foreign force at a syrian armed forces out of tripoli well these principles have been enunciated in this. in this document. the united nations made arrangements for out of fat and $4000.00 of his fighters to depart the coastal lebanese city on board 5 greek ships. following his 2nd 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 yet as it is beyond the rhetoric

out of fact 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 1st arab leader to meet an egyptian president since former president and were said that had signed a peace treaty with israel in 1989 the arab world was thunderstruck. that's what. 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 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 and i felt sort of political refuge with his former adversaries king hussein of jordan since the p.l.o. was expulsion from jordan relations between the 2 leaders had always been an easy but out of pattern 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 1984. 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. . batna a lawful in

a 30 minute that measured we looked for locations to hold the p. and c. meeting there were suggestions of holding it on board the ship of the session of the p. and c. hadn't taken place the p.l.o. wouldn't have finished until 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 1905 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 artifacts moved once again levon on was the battleground. the syrian backed a militia and antioch that 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 3 years. i can look at that of them

and with it out that. could not have become involved had the syrians not asked them that a quest was made to 70 lebanese but is that all declined to have that as possibility of shedding palestinian blood on their hands and accepted that test. the fighting and the how doing experiences for the refugees would be termed the camp's war. there were criminals there 2. 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. and another lady here who has affected her 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. how to bear. the thought that you know you and i say that war was very bloody and lasted a long time that 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 brought in from outside they call it in as the sand hills and this is the 2nd time that these girls are planning to come in in this way. because. it was. the wrong road out there was.

the. we feel that nobody is feeling but the. suffering here is just the siege to continue killing the people i can't 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. and in fact suffered a further blow when israeli warplanes raided his p.l.o.

headquarters in tunisia killing 160 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 1st and though. it was a we feel that our 1st 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 it would what we shot a good old 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 a. statement that was made public by one of the members of the cabinet in jordan the dane 10 to close 24 i owed of that dirty to be a law office in jordan. to put more strain. on day

activities of the p.l.o. even sure. we are not in the oil cage as some are thinking if we are in lebanon. 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 every were. 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. a man but in the asset 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. he was expecting from the going to go down as one artifact

himself he feigned ignorance as to want to go wrong but it seems that spite of all our efforts. to make just a bit is which will effect it in data or directly. to show that interest in their addiction. but i have to pay the price of his political move at an arab summit in amman in 1987 king 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. 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 the lifeline. it was to come from an unexpected source.

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