Yasir Arafat
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was born in 1929. He became chairman of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969. The PLO is a confederation of
Palestine Arab groups that work to establish an Arab state in what was once
Palestine. Most of the area that formed Palestine is now part of Israel.
Arafat claims he was b ....
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.... forced Arafat and his supporters to
leave their in northern Lebanon, but Arafat remained chairman of the PLO.
The PLO did not recognize Israel's rights to exist. Bur in 1988,
Arafat persuaded the PLO it accept Israel's rights to exist along side an
independent Palestinian state in territories in Palestine Israel had
occupied after 1967 arab-isreali war. The territories are the Gaza strip
and the west bank. the PLO declared the existence of the state and elected
Arafat it's president. Bu ....
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