Word: plo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tarr's Message Was Offensive," a letter printed in the Crimson on February 16, presented a benign view of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). According to the writers, "the PLO works to secure and guarantee fundamental human rights for Palestinians, including the Palestinian right to self-determination...It does not deny these same rights to the Israeli people...
...fact, the PLO does seek to deny the Israeli people the right to self-determination, even to the point of destroying the state of Israel. According to the PLO's charter, the Palestine National Covenant, "the partioning of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of Israel are fundamentally null and void." Furthermore, Yassar Arafat, chair of the PLO, has often expressed this viewpoint...
What is Tarr's message? In depicting the PLO as a modern Nazi equivalent, as an organization which wishes to "gas the Israelis," Tarr distorts the PLO's goals. The PLO works to secure and guarantee fundamental human rights for Palestinians, including the Palestinian right to self-determination, and is seen by the majority of the Palestinian people as their legitimate representative. It does not deny these same rights to the Israeli people...
Furthermore, in attributing the Palestinian intifada to the actions of stone-throwing PLO "maniacs," Tarr denies the true popular character of the intifada and delegitimizes the Palestinian nationalist struggle. The demand for human equality and political sovereignty is not limited to an organization. It is, rather, the demand of a nation...
...PLO. Offered to help Saddam by attacking American interests in the Middle East and around the world...