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b.c. story set backs until the job only what it takes to beat. special coverage on just. 148 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.

expelled from jordan and then the ban on the p.l.o. seemed 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 1st time the p.l.o. was 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 a negotiated settlement. yes i offered to lead to any argument that got the shot yes the 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 liquid as he meets them and 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. what transpired was a syrian attempt to dominate palestinian decision making that should direct fearing intervention or through serious palestinian tool that was met with a result of defense of independence of palestinian decision making. the syrian

intervention found a fertile breeding ground of differences and power struggles with them further. can it handle this really s.s.c. if you shut it. out of our bird is a direct responsibility for that split in the p.l.o. to confront that 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 fattah 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 libya and decision. but that that that 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 fire back but 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 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 israel. 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 i saw him in tunis and i asked him why he hadn't also shot that is he said he's orders 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 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 19052 of his european cells attacked rome and vienna airport 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. in june 1983 when it was syria declared on a shuttle persona non-grata and expelled him from damascus the break was cemented. so what's going to come out. at this here you have to go there on the field and just have a i said it's going to. do you mean exactly as a. matter. that would you know i am very good evening after i have a meeting here after having the thing i really want meeting with no. i mean but the thing and the president here you have to leave it there. but. i respect that but you have to wait and see. i think the commanders are. going on now only thing is going in an extent way ok ok thank you.

female. bias to be out of. it out that in minute i say do allow to be. a minute. well. when they met then the. phrase so what if. this was 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

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 model kind of he said. 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 how different forces on a fact now faced an armed through vote against his authority by pro series elements within the pm. and if not 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. pro syrian palestinians responded immediately. i mean most. did. 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 deputies. that are known as abu jihad it's 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

bank from the syrian army you see you can look you can follow it it's. just the ferry was to the defeat of the instead of coming from the city i'm not a museum to them and they had to. sit in command but as you see. on a factual prominence kept up that tax they had the support among palestinians in the occupied territory. 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 has been trusted 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 to end 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 just beyond the rhetoric out of fact seemed a spent force. but the elusive palestinian leader had another card up his sleeve.

short a friend out a 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. 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 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 out of that 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 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 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. . the has now 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 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 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 out of its move once again lebanon 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. that can change and that. if it out that. could not have become involved had the syrians not asked them

they quest was made to sever lebanese but is that all of the client to have that is 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 count's war. there were criminals there 2. palestinian women were being shot in the head as they went for water deliberately. and those criminals are walking around us among us today i can remember the savitri i can remember one day . with so many and i 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. had a lot of 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 were also 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 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 ceding 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 our life ali 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. 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 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 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 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. oversell this fight to here to this in 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 pull more straight. on day activities of the p.l.o. even sure. we are not in the well cage as some are thinking if we are

in lebanon or in jordan 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 it were as people who are still alive in our occupied that it will be facing the israeli occupation despite jordanian frustration many palestinians believe don i thought had accomplished a masterpiece to. a man but to me as set 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 him from the going to go. as far out of found himself he feigned ignorance as to want to go wrong but it seemed that spite of all thoughts down. to make just

a bit is which will effect it in data or directly. to your definition that attention. but i have to pay the price of his political move at an arab summit in amman in 1970 being 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. after decades of oppression the palestinians still living in the occupied territories. is there.

a beleaguered out of 5 paying the price for his political maneuvering in the middle east now desperate for american recognition and absolutely denounce all orders for his studies how did the p.l.o. find strength and support from their only lifeline oppressed palestinians living in the occupied territories chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for

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