PLO

PLO

In 1964 the Palestine Liberation Organization was formed by Palestinian leaders in an attempt to destroy Israel and make Palestine their homeland again. By 1970 the PLO had directed violence and terrorist attacks towards the U.S. and other nations that supported Israel. When the violence became to much, Israel finally attacked the PLO bases in Jordan and Lebanon. The war between them resulted in many causalities. In the end the leader of the PLO, Yassir Arafat, proposed a peace treaty with the prime minister of Israel that was to be called the Oslo accords. One of the requirements of this treaty was that the Israeli forces had to moved out of the Occupied Territories. Violence still continues between the Arabs countries and Israelis.

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