{"id":1468,"date":"2017-11-28T15:36:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/?page_id=1468"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:21:27","slug":"palestinian-liberation-organisation-plo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/arab-israeli-conflict-middle-east-1956-1979\/palestinian-liberation-organisation-plo\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Liberation Organisation PLO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Article by Micheal Oren, online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Six Day War sparked Palestinian nationalism, which was almost
\nnon-existent before 1967 because, according to Oren, “the Palestinians
\nrealized that they could no longer look to any Arab leader to redeem
\nPalestine for them and so they began to look to themselves. This is
\nwhy the Palestinian Liberation Organization emerges immediately after
\nthe war as a major force in Arab politics.” And “while the
\nPLO had been created by Nasser in 1954 as a sort a straw organization;
\nit didn’t command any type of legitimacy, certainly among Palestinians,
\nbefore the Six Day War.” However, in the immediate years that
\nchanged. As Oren tells us, “The PLO as an umbrella group began
\nto take in all the Palestinian organizations, including Al-Fatah,
\nwhich wasn’t part of the PLO before that. And a year after, in 1969,
\nwe saw Yasser Arafat emerge as the chairman of the PLO.”<\/p>\n

Source: AlJazeera Documentary.<\/p>\n