Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Palestine Liberation Organization
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- initialism Palestine Liberation Organization
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- noun a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine; when formed in 1964 it was a terrorist organization dominated by Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman; received recognition by the United Nations and by Arab states in 1974 as a government in exile; has played a largely political role since the creation of the Palestine National Authority
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Examples
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The PLO is dead, wiped out, and finished as an effective fighting force.
Lost in the Levant 2010
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The PLO is dead, wiped out, and finished as an effective fighting force.
Lost in the Levant 2010
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While there is no confirmation of any quid pro quo, some rumors have been circulating about a possible Israeli release of some long term PLO prisoners.
Daoud Kuttab: Palestinian and Israeli Negotiators Merely Shadow Boxing Daoud Kuttab 2012
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While there is no confirmation of any quid pro quo, some rumors have been circulating about a possible Israeli release of some long term PLO prisoners.
Daoud Kuttab: Palestinian and Israeli Negotiators Merely Shadow Boxing Daoud Kuttab 2012
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The PLO is dead, wiped out, and finished as an effective fighting force.
Lost in the Levant 2010
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While there is no confirmation of any quid pro quo, some rumors have been circulating about a possible Israeli release of some long term PLO prisoners.
Daoud Kuttab: Palestinian and Israeli Negotiators Merely Shadow Boxing Daoud Kuttab 2012
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Which might be why Arafat's PLO is desperately trying to discredit the survey and provoke the mob:
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The PLO is not a terrorist organization anymore than Israel is, it’s a highly organized state really.
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Clearly Israel felt that the PLO was a greater threat.
Matthew Yglesias » Foxman: Mitchell is “Fair” and I’m Unhappy About It 2009
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At a purely military level, the two FRC wars against the PLO were the ones that Israel was able to “win,” in terms of being largely able to dismantle the structures it targeted.
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