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Chapter 2 Global wave – The end of colonial era and the emerging two super powers (22)
060 Guerilla
combatant or refugee? Wandering Palestine (1/4)
For the time being since its
inception in 1964, PLO had been looking for the restoration of Palestinian
people’s right of national self-determination and a return of discrete
Palestinian refugees to their homeland by means of a moderate political movement.
However, the politicians of the neighboring Arab countries gave them only lip
service without specified support. Six Day War in 1967 broke the
self-confidence of the Arab politicians perfectly. The dream of recapture of PLO's
homeland went far away. In addition, more than a million of new Palestinian
refugees have flowed into Jordan. The Palestinians were disappointed in their
Arab brothers, and the PLO transformed into a radical guerrilla combatant.
Fatah, formerly the Palestinian
National Liberation Movement, became the leader of PLO. Fatah formed an
anti-Israeli guerrilla organization and got good results as repelling the
Israeli army in the border area between Israel and Jordan. In February 1969,
Yasser Arafat of Fatah was appointed to the chairman of PLO. President Nasser
of Egypt gave him a title of the leader of the Palestinians, which made the PLO
a de facto Palestinian government in exile.
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(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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