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Date(s)
- 1997 Jul 5 (Creation)
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Item
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31pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of filmed interview with Yasser Abd Rabbo, Palestinian, member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), member of the Executive Council of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and head of PLO Department of information and culture describing the influence of the Marxist philosophy and the communist revolutions of the 1960s on the development of the Palestinian resistance movement, particularly their attitude to the government of Jordan, and events leading up to the expulsion of Palestinians from Jordan (Mar-Sep 1970); relations between factions of the PLO including Fatah, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and DFLP (1970, 1988); Arafat's reaction to the signing of the Camp David Accord 'The Framework for Peace in the Middle East' by Israel and Egypt (1978); change of policy at the Palestine National Council (PNC) meeting in Algiers, Nov 1988; US initiative for talks with Palestinians, and PLO renunciation of terrorism Geneva Press (13 Dec 1988). 31pp