Yasser ArafatDecember 1987
Moves to keep the PLO politically central as the uprising spreads in occupied territories.
Palestine · Politics / PLO. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Moves to keep the PLO politically central as the uprising spreads in occupied territories.
Arafat supports the uprising from exile and seeks to keep the PLO central to Palestinian politics during the First Intifada.
The First Intifada begins and Abbas supports PLO efforts to maintain leadership over Palestinian politics
This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.