PLO

abbreviation

1. Palestine Liberation Organization.

PLO

abbreviation

1. Palestine Liberation Organization

Example Sentences

Initially, Israel offered discreet support to Hamas, seeing it as a useful counterweight to the PLO and its dominant faction, Fatah, led at the time by Yasser Arafat.

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Around the same time, Israel empowered Palestinian Islamist groups including Hamas, hoping they would serve as a counterweight to the PLO and leftist, secular Palestinian factions that were prominent at the time.

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Born and raised in the West Bank, at the age of 15 he became active in Fatah, the PLO faction led by Arafat.

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The PLO may have believed Sadr, fearing they were endangering the Lebanese population, might have convinced Gaddafi to rein them in.

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The PLO has had observer status at the UN since 1974.

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