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Yasser Arafat, wearing sunglasses and a keffiyeh, sits beside Kamal Nasser at a press conference in front of microphones, with a Palestinian flag behind them.
The PLO in the 1970s (From left) Kamal Nasser, the spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and Yasser Arafat, the PLO's chair, speaking at a press conference in Amman, Jordan, in 1970.

Palestine Liberation Organization

Palestinian organization
Also known as: Munaáș“áș“amat al-Taáž„rÄ«r Filasáč­Ä«niyyah, PLO
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Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), umbrella political organization claiming to represent the world’s Palestinians—those Arabs, and their descendants, who lived in mandated Palestine before the creation there of the State of Israel in 1948. It was formed in 1964 to centralize the leadership of various Palestinian groups that previously had operated as clandestine resistance movements. It came into prominence only after the Six-Day War of June 1967, however, and engaged in a protracted guerrilla war against...

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