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PLO

noun
1.
A political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine; when formed in 1964 it was a terrorist organization dominated by Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman; received recognition by the United Nations and by Arab states in 1974 as a government in exile; has played a largely political role since the creation of the Palestine National Authority.  Synonym: Palestine Liberation Organization.






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"Plo" Quotes from Famous Books



... Joe Philpot PLO (Late absconding secretary of the light refreshment fund) Will take the chair and anything else he ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... which includes a Palestinian Legislative Council elected in January 1996, as part of interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A transfer of powers and responsibilities for the Gaza Strip and Jericho took place pursuant to the Israel-PLO 4 May 1994 Cairo Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area and in additional areas of the West Bank pursuant to the Israel-PLO 28 September 1995 Interim Agreement and the Israel-PLO 15 January 1997 Protocol Concerning Redeployment in Hebron. The DOP ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.



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