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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
PLO

initialism (acronym) of Palestinian Liberation Organization, by 1965.

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PLO (disambiguation)

PLO is the Palestine Liberation Organization, an organization for the creation of the independent State of Palestine.

PLO may also refer to:

  • Pot Limit Omaha, a poker variant
  • People's Law Office, a law office in America
  • Plo Koon, a fictional character in Star Wars

Usage examples of "plo".

Plo Koon and Ki-Adi-Mundi winked out, as Obi-Wan and Agen Kolar rose and spoke together in tones softly grave, as Yoda and Mace Windu walked from the room, Anakin could only sit, sick at heart, stunned with helplessness.

Chapter Two The Jedi Council was composed of twelve members: Mace Windu, Yoda, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Adi Gallia, Depa Billaba, Eeth Koth, Oppo Rancisis, Even Piell, Plo Koon, Saesee Tiin, Yaddle, and Yarael Poof.

He pointed Starr and the PLO goatherd toward the exercise and sun room.

And I want the CIA gunny named Starr, and that PLO goatherd you call Mr.

The Israeli stories revolved around speculation that the Phalangist militia leader, Bashir Gemayel, had struck a deal with the Israeli government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin to mount a joint effort to drive the PLO and the Syrians out of Lebanon forever.

The truth is, the Western press coddled the PLO and never judged it with anywhere near the scrutiny that it judged Israeli, Phalangist, or American behavior.

Since Israelis mythologized the nature of Lebanon, they also mythologized Bashir Gemayel and his Maronite Phalangist militia, with which they teamed up to fight the PLO in the summer of 1982.

Whenever senior Phalangist officials used to talk about the Palestinians, they did so in the most blood-curdling terms, which prompted Israeli leaders to believe that the Phalangists hated the PLO even more than they did.

With some 14,000 PLO and Syrianfighting men having been evacuated from Beirut, the Lebanese Muslims were more or less disarmed and exposed to the dictates of the Phalangist militia and their Israeli backers.

PLO, I decided to go up to Tripoli, in north Lebanon, where the combined forces of Abu Musa and Syrian-sponsored Palestinian leader Ahmed Jebril had just routed Arafat from his last stronghold, the Badawi refugee camp.

Arafat and his men, most of whom were Muslims, were welcomed by the Lebanese Muslims and Druse, who identified with their cause and, more important, thought they could use the PLO guerrillas to bring pressure on the Maronite Christians to share more power.

The already serious strains between Lebanese Muslims and Lebanese Christians intensified in the early 1970s as the PLO increasingly used Lebanon as a launching pad for operations against Israel, and Israel responded by wreaking havoc on Lebanon.

The Lebanese Christians demanded that the Lebanese army be dePLOyed to break the PLO state-within-a-state the way King Hussein had in Jordan.

The Christians wanted the PLO out not only because it was disrupting Lebanese life but because without the Palestinian guerrillas, the Lebanese Muslims would be unable to press their demands for more power.

South Lebanon and the predominantly Muslim western half of Beirut became the power base of the PLO and various Lebanese Muslim militias, while the Christian eastern half of Beirut and the Christian enclave on Mt.