Yasir Arafat
Yasir Arafat
Yasir Arafat
The PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) is an umbrella political organization representing the Palestinian people in their drive for a Palestinian state. It was formed in 1964 to centralize the leadership of various groups. After the 6-day war in 1967, it carried a distinctly Palestinian agenda. In 1969 Yasir Arafat was elected chairman of the PLO and he was then elected president of Palestinian states in 1989.
Yasir Arafat is no more. He died on November 11, 2004. The PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) is a joint effort by several separate anti-Israel groups originally organized in 1964 to destroy Israel through the force of arms. Arafat was the head of his own group, Al Fatah, when it joined the PLO. Arafat later headed the PLO from 1969 until he died. In 1996, the PLO renounced its stated goal of dissolving Israel. After Arafat died, the PLO fell on hard times, and in 2006, Hamas won out over Al Fatah for control of the Palestinian Authority. The PLO has been struggling for traction among the Palestinian people for the past 3 years.
There is no such title. The first Chairman of the PLO was Yasser Arafat and he was also first Chairman of the Palestinian Authority.
Yasser Arafat, born as Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa was a Palestinian leader, Chairman of the PLO, President of the PNA and leader of the Fatah party.
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In 1993 he invited Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (who was later assassinated by a Jewish extremist opposed to territorial concessions to the Palestinians) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasir 'Arafat to Washington to sign a historic agreement that granted limited Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho
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Yasir Arafat was the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization(PLO) since 1968 and of the Palestinian Authority since 1994. He supported Saddam Hussein during the Persian Gulf War but is generally recognized as a moderate within the Palestinian Leadership. He shared the Nobel Prize for peace in 1994.