PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Palestine Liberation Organization, Katyusha Rocket Launcher, Demographics Of Lebanon
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The israeli lebanese conflict describes a series of related military clashes involving israel, Lebanon, and syria, as well as various non-state militias acting from within lebanon. Palestine liberation organization (plo) recruited militants in lebanon from among the families of palestinian refugees who had been expelled or fled due to the creation of israel in 1948. 1968, the plo and israel were committing cross border attacks against each other. After the plo leadership and its fatah brigade were expelled from jordan for fomenting a revolt, they entered. Lebanese national pact lead to the lebanese civil war (1975 1990). Several palestinian guerrilla armies formed to fight a guerrilla/terrorist war against israel. Their attacks on israeli targets prompted retaliation on the host nations of jordan and lebanon. Palestinian power became so great in jordan, that a civil war was fought in 1970, resulting in the expulsion of.