The Palestine Liberation Organization was originally one of a series of political and activist groups that arose from the plight of the Palestinians expelled from their land when the State of Israel was formed. These refugees settled in UN-organized...

This article is part of the series: Politics and government ofthe Palestinian National...

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is the most intimate and permanent enemy of Israel. This would be very paradoxical since the PLO has been shaped by Zionism, the Jewish national government. Firstly, because the delineation of the Palestine territory was a Zionist achievement in...

The State of Palestine conducts its daily business from a few dozen squat, white-stucco "safe houses" scattered about Tunis's wealthier suburbs. If the fragrant, bougainvillea-lined streets of Sidi Bou Said, where senior officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization reside, or the dramatic seaside...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' decision to call early presidential and parliament elections is fraught with legal and political difficulties. Independent experts have said he is on shaky legal ground, and the ruling Hamas Party says it will challenge him every step of the way.___THE NEXT...

The world's most recognized Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, delivered a stinging tirade against Palestinian infighting on Sunday in his first public appearance in decades in the Israeli city of Haifa.The reading by Darwish, known as the "Palestinian national poet," came a month after deadly battles...

Exploration of the effectivness of the PLO. Essay argues that if not for the small splinter terrorist groups within the PLO and the inflexibility of the Israeli leadership, the overall goal of the PLO to liberate Palestine may have eventually been achieved.