19 Facts About PLO

In 1993, the PLO recognized Israel's right to exist in peace, accepted Resolution 242 of the United Nations Security Council, and rejected "violence and terrorism".

Ideology of the PLO was formulated in the founding year, 1964, in the Palestinian National Covenant.

At the core of the PLO's ideology is the belief that Zionists had unjustly expelled the Palestinians from Palestine and established a Jewish state in place under the pretext of having historic and Jewish ties with Palestine.

The PLO demanded that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to their homes.

The PLO is governed internally by its "Fundamental Law", which describes the powers and the relations between the organs of the PLO.

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The results of the last parliamentary elections for the PLC, held in the Territories in 2006, with Hamas as the big winner while not even a member of the PLO, "underlined the clear lack of a popular mandate by the PLO leadership", according to PASSIA.

Political factions within the PLO that had opposed the Oslo process were marginalized.

PLO managed to overcome the separation by uniting the power in PLO and PA in one individual, Yasser Arafat.

PLO remains the official representative of the State of Palestine at the UN.

PLO was designated a terrorist organization by the United States in 1987, but in 1988, a presidential waiver was issued, which permitted contact with the organization.

In 1988, however, the PLO officially endorsed a two-state solution, contingent on terms such as making East Jerusalem capital of the Palestinian state and giving Palestinians the right of return to land occupied by Palestinians prior to 1948, as well as the right to continue armed struggle until the end of "The Zionist Entity.

Effectively, the PLO recognized Israel's right to exist within pre-1967 borders, with the understanding that the Palestinians would be allowed to set up their own state in the West Bank and Gaza.

PLO began their militancy campaign from its inception with an attack on Israel's National Water Carrier in January 1965.

PLO suffered a major reversal with the Jordanian assault on its armed groups, in the events known as Black September in 1970.

The Palestinian groups were expelled from Jordan, and during the 1970s, the PLO was effectively an umbrella group of eight organizations headquartered in Damascus and Beirut, all devoted to armed struggle against Zionism or Israeli occupation, using methods which included direct clashing and guerrilla warfare against Israel.

On 20 January 1976, the PLO took part in the Damour massacre in retaliation to the Karantina massacre.

In 1982, the PLO relocated to Tunis, Tunisia after it was driven out of Lebanon by Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War.

The PLO has been sued in the United States by families of those killed or injured in attacks by Palestinians.

The PLO was found liable for the death and injuries of US citizens in a number of terrorist attacks in Israel from 2001 to 2004 and ordered to pay a judgment of $655.