Intifada
On November 15, 1988, the PLO proclaimed the declaration of an independent “State of Palestine” a kind of government-in-exile; and on April 2, 1989, the Palestine National Council (PNC) elected Yasser Arafat president of the new quasi-state.
The PLO during this period also recognized United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338, thereby tacitly acknowledging Israel’s right to exist. It thus abandoned its long-standing goal of replacing Israel with a secular, democratic state in Palestine in favour of a policy accepting a two-state solution with separate Israeli and Palestinian states, with the latter occupying the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
In April 1993 the PLO under Arafat’s leadership entered secret negotiations with Israel on a possible peace settlement between the two sides. The first document in a set of Israel-PLO agreements—generally termed the Oslo Accords—was signed on September 13, 1993, by Arafat and the leaders of the Israeli government. The agreements called for mutual recognition between the two sides and set out conditions under which the West Bank and Gaza would be gradually handed over to the newly formed Palestinian Authority (PA), of which Arafat was to become the first president.
In April 1993 the PLO under Arafat’s leadership entered secret negotiations with Israel on a possible peace settlement between the two sides. The first document in a set of Israel-PLO agreements—generally termed the Oslo Accords—was signed on September 13, 1993, by Arafat and the leaders of the Israeli government. The agreements called for mutual recognition between the two sides and set out conditions under which the West Bank and Gaza would be gradually handed over to the newly formed Palestinian Authority (PA), of which Arafat was to become the first president.
In April 1993 the PLO under Arafat’s leadership entered secret negotiations with Israel on a possible peace settlement between the two sides. The first document in a set of Israel-PLO agreements—generally termed the Oslo Accords—was signed on September 13, 1993, by Arafat and the leaders of the Israeli government. The agreements called for mutual recognition between the two sides and set out conditions under which the West Bank and Gaza would be gradually handed over to the newly formed Palestinian Authority (PA), of which Arafat was to become the first president.
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Intifada
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Bereft of bases from which PLO forces might attack the Jewish state and encouraged by the success of a popular uprising, the intifada (“shaking off” or "uprising"), the First Intifada (Children of The Stones Intifada) began in 1987 in the occupied territories, the PLO leadership developed a more flexible and conciliatory policy toward peace with Israel.
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