Word: plo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frighten, intimidate and physically force the Palestinians to leave. Nor would 25,000 Palestinians and Lebanese, along with more than 500 Israeli soldiers, have been killed in 1982 if Israel had not decided to break the American-arranged truce and invade Lebanon. In addition, Yasir Arafat and the PLO do not dictate policy to the Palestinian people. The PLO is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and as such, its armed struggle represents the legitimate aspirations of that people...
...June 6, 1982, during a bombing attack about eight miles north of the Israeli border. The pilot was captured by the PLO...
...defendants in custody--Abbas' cousin, Mohammad Issa Abbas, and PLO member Mowffaq Said Gandura--received lighter sentences...
Despite a U.S. warrant for Abbas, leader of the Palestine Liberation Front faction of the PLO, Italian officials at first said they lacked evidence he had any role in the hijacking other than helping negotiate its end. They later issued a warrant for him but he had gone underground...
Molqi, Abdelatif and two other defendants responded to the verdict by shouting in Arabic, "Long live Palestine!" "Long live Italian justice!" and "Long live [PLO Chairman Yasser] Arafat!" A courtroom interpreter translated their shouts...