Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
• 500,000 Palestinian refugees living in south Lebanon conduct terrorist attacks on Israel (PLO)
• Israel invades Lebanon as far as Beirut in 1982
• Multinational force sent in to restore order (PLO women are massacred)
• Syria invades in 1987
• PLO eventually agrees to withdraw
• 1991 a cease fire was signed although Syrian troops remained in Lebanon
• Attacks still launched on Israel from Golan Heights area
PLO and International Terrorism
• The militant arm of the PLO is called Fatah
• Leads hijackings of planes (3 blown up on the runway in Jordan in 1970)
• Most recognized were the attacks on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics
• Arafat claimed to have nothing to do with the attack
• Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir responded with Operation Sword of Gideon
• They lead many intifadas in the following years
• Israel invades Lebanon as far as Beirut in 1982
• Multinational force sent in to restore order (PLO women are massacred)
• Syria invades in 1987
• PLO eventually agrees to withdraw
• 1991 a cease fire was signed although Syrian troops remained in Lebanon
• Attacks still launched on Israel from Golan Heights area
PLO and International Terrorism
• The militant arm of the PLO is called Fatah
• Leads hijackings of planes (3 blown up on the runway in Jordan in 1970)
• Most recognized were the attacks on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics
• Arafat claimed to have nothing to do with the attack
• Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir responded with Operation Sword of Gideon
• They lead many intifadas in the following years
Quote: "One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
-Golda Meir |
Question:What would have happened if the Syrians did not attack?
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