By "every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated" was implicitly meant the West Bank and Gaza Strip, albeit presented as an interim goal. The final goal remained "completing the liberation of all Palestinian territory" and "recover all their national rights and, first and foremost, their rights to return and to self-determination on the whole of the soil of their homeland". In addition, UN Resolution 242 was still rejected. and the leadership abroad could only indirectly influence the events. A new local leadership emerged, the Unified National Leadership of the Uprising (UNLU), comprising many leading Palestinian factions. After King Hussein of Jordan proclaimed the administrative and legal separation of the West Bank from Jordan in 1988, the Palestine National Council adopted the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Algiers, proclaiming an independent Palestine. The declaration made reference to UN resolutions without explicitly mentioning Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338.
A month later, Arafat declared in Geneva that the PLO would support a solution to the conflict based on these Resolutions. Effectively, the PLO recognized Israel's right to exist within pre-1967 borders, with the understanding that the Palestinians would be allowed to set up their own state in the West Bank and Gaza. The United States accepted this clarification by Arafat and began to allow diplomatic contacts with PLO officials.<!--While the Intifada many members of PLO organizations take a part at the activities or organized them, especially as "Unified Intifada Leadership" and its branches. At the beginning that activities weren't organized by the PLO itself. But, later the activities (especially the violent ones, like killing Israelis or collaborators) were more and more organized by the PLO. IS THERE A SOURCE FOR THIS? The UIL paid allegiance to the PLO, but how directly influenced it was by the PLO needs to be clarified. That the PLO was responsible for the more violent acts needs a source, please/!--> The Proclamation of Independence did not lead to statehood, although over 100 states recognized the State of Palestine.
Oslo Accords
In 1993, the PLO secretly negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. The accords were signed on 20 August 1993, The Accords granted Palestinians the right to self-government in the Gaza Strip and the city of Jericho in the West Bank through the creation of the Palestinian Authority. Yasser Arafat was appointed head of the Palestinian Authority and a timetable for elections was laid out. The headquarters of the PLO were moved to Ramallah on the West Bank. Estimates of the Palestine Liberation Organization's alleged hidden assets vary wildly and only Arafat had the whole picture. A former PLO finance minister said it was $3 billion to $5 billion.
Membership
Present members include
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!colspan="2"|Party!!Abbr.!!Founded!!Leader!!Ideology!!Position
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|style="background-color:#006400"| ||||||||Rakad Salem||Saddamism||Right-wing
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|style="background-color:"| ||||||||Nayef Hawatmeh||Maoism||Far-left
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|style="background-color:| ||||||||Jameel Shihadeh||Socialism||Left-wing
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|style="background-color:#228B22| ||||||||Saleh Ra'fat||Scientific socialism||Left-wing
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|style="background-color:| ||||||||Wasel Abu Yousef||Ba'athism
||Left-wing
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|style="background-color:"| ||||||||Mahmoud Abbas||Arab socialism
||Centre to centre-left
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|style="background-color:"| ||||||||Bassam as-Salhi||Marxism||Left-wing to far-left
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|style="background-color:| ||||||||Ahmed Majdalani||Socialism||Left-wing
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|style="background-color:"| ||||||||Ahmad Sa'adat||Marxism–Leninism||Far-left
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