What happened to Palestine and the PLO? Where does the Lebanon come into it?

Question

Getting confused!

Answer 1

i know
like i said politics and greed
theres the answer

Answer 2

Your confusion is understandable. The Palestinians do seem to have fallen off of the news radar recently. That whole situation is still going on of course.

First off, since Hamas won a majority in the January 2006 elections, most news agencies talk about Hamas, not the PLO, which is now called the Palestinian Authority anyway. I looked it up on wikipedia and it seems that they have an intricate and complicated relationship. I've included the link below because I don't actually understand it. :-)

On one level, these are two different crises, although they both stem from disputed territory that Israel gained in the Six Day War (1967). On the broadest level, they can both be seen as part of a larger struggle to undermine Israel -- Hezbollah harasses Israel until they take the bait and strike, the Arab nations keep the Palestinians as refugees because it has very successfully turned a lot of opinion against Israel. The end goal of both is the same -- to destory Isreal by any means necessary, even the sacrifice of other Muslims.

Answer 3

Hezbollah apparently got emboldened by Hamas's act. Neither could have imagined such a devastating response.

It's unlikely any good can come of this: "shock and awe" have been discredited as a strategy (in Iraq), especially as to committed Islamists for whom martyrdom is a strategy and who are little concerned with the fate of civilians except insofar as it gives them claim to moral high ground.

Lots of things to think about: the implications for terrorism; the history and currency of appeasement; the distinction between Israelis' European worldview (compromise as a means to resolve problems) and the Middle Eastern "demand for justice" which permits of no compromise and can live on generation after generation. Mutual racial hatred is there; yet the Christians of the Middle East (who are indestinguishable racially from the Muslims) integrate easily in Europe, N. America, Australia. The Muslims do not: and the big question is whether liberal Muslims will ever, and anywhere, be allowed to flourish or whether the intransigent, backward-looking (back to the 7th Century) Islamists will keep the liberals irrelevant. Even in Britain and France.

Hezbollah are Shiite, Hamas are Sunni. Heretofore they had little in common, little to do with each other. Now Hamas feels forgotten (as your question suggests): its strategy is useless in the absence of attention on Al Jazeera and CNN.

Answer 4

PLO under the leadership of Arafat was the forerunner to Fatah which eventually was elected to run the Palestinian Authority. This was replaced in the last elections by Hamas in part because of widespread corruption in the Authority. Hamas like Hezbollah refuse to recognise the state of Israel and both are considered terrorist organisations by Israel. Both have links to Syria and/or Iran and are funded by them. The Palestinian agenda is unfortunately overshadowed by the agendas of others.

Answer 5

there is long history in the middle east, since roman empire collapsed, salason people dominated the middle east, the holy roman empire sent cross army to fight with salason people for a few handrads year. jeruslem is the jews , muslin, and christian people's holy city. it is no one's city, also every one's city. this war will not finished until one dominant religeon conquere the others, it is going to be like this for ever at least for 100 years. so, at the present, it is part of the process of one religon becoming stronger and try to do something, nice try, but, not strong enough to conquere. not any religon is strong enough to be a winner now. the jews are going stronger with the support of u.s. while if the whole muslin world come together, u will see how long can the u.s stand? because, the american need oil, without oil, u.s economy will be collapse in 2 weeks. how scary is it? the american's know it. they are playing very carefully.

Answer 6

ill assume that you know the map of the region ..
hezbollah is a resistant group in my lebanon they came to light once israel occupied our south .
they come from people but donot understand me wrong .none knows the fighters .you can not see them ...you may see the politic branch of them but not the fighters.this organization was supported by iran.iran once it gained its independancy ..helped hezbollah who have the same religion as they to become a powerful organization.when my country was destroyed in the 80s
. hezbollah was able with the help of other parties to rebuild lebanon to become one of the most beautiful countries in the area.hezbollah was able in 2000 to force the israelien troops to go out from lebanon humilated .from 2000 till 2006 hezbollah policy was to defend lebanon against israel whos greed in the lebanese water & land was still present.The palestinians looked @ the lebanese model which is hezbollah & tried to emitate it .Israel after leaving lebanon didnot keep any situation but to provoke more hater to it from the lebanese.
hezbollah is now blames for crossing the blue line simply because those soldiers were coming to enter lebanon .they should have wated for them to enter.
i hope i gave you a breif summary about the situation & about the conflict here in lebanon.

Answer 7

I believe they disbanded in the early 90's. From what I heard, Hamas has taken their place, but hamas is more than a rebel group in lebanon. They are their own political party, the same as republicans and democrats.

Answer 8

and me