The Palestinian LIBERATION organization (PLO)
- 500,000 Palestinian refugees living in south Lebanon conduct terrorist attacks on Israel (PLO)
- Israel invades Lebanon as far as Beirut in 1982
- Multinational force sent in to restore order (PLO women are massacred)
- Syria invades in 1987
- PLO eventually agrees to withdraw
- 1991 a cease fire was signed although Syrian troops remained in Lebanon
- Attacks still launched on Israel from Golan Heights area
Summary: A group designed to fight for their own country, in the early 70s they were a terror organisation. They conducted tourist attacks, highjacking planes and blew them up. They wanted to get back at Isreal.
PLO and international Terrorism
- The militant arm of the PLO is called Fatah
- Leads hijackings of planes (3 blown up on the runway in Jordan in 1970)
- Most recognized were the attacks on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics
- Arafat claimed to have nothing to do with the attack
- Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir responded with Operation Sword of Gideon
- They lead many intifadas in the following years
Summary: The PLO did these international terrorist attacks that led to intifadas.
"History has proven that the plo and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world." - Ahmed Yassin