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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Palestine Liberation Organization
n 1: a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort
to create an independent state of Palestine; when formed in
1964 it was a terrorist organization dominated by Yasser
Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman; received
recognition by the United Nations and by Arab states in
1974 as a government in exile; has played a largely
political role since the creation of the Palestine National
Authority [syn: {Palestine Liberation Organization}, {PLO}]