The 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
Summery: PLO starts as a terrorist group and tries to conduct terrorist attacks against Israel, Israel then invades Lebanon and a multinational force sent in to restore order (PLO women are massacred by Israeli army) but Syria invades in 1987. When PLO finally withdraws in 1991, a cease fire signed but Syria troops stayed in Lebanon. Fatah (militant arm of PLO) hijacked 3 planes on a Jordan runway in 1970 (televised) and in 1972 Munich Olympics attacks on Israeli athletes.
Question: Why did Fatah want to harm athletes at the Olympic Games?
Quote: "If Israel rejects our demands there will be a reaction and we have a 30,000 man armed force."
- Yasser Arafat (Quoted by Israel Radio reporter Yoni Ben Menachem, 7 June 1996)
- Yasser Arafat (Quoted by Israel Radio reporter Yoni Ben Menachem, 7 June 1996)