PLO Granted Observer Status

By Patrick Mondout

On November 22, 1974, the United Nations passed a pair of resolutions declaring the Palestinian people have a right to independence and sovereignty and thus granting the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) "observer" status at the U.N. This was a mere 9 days after a gun-toting Yasir Arafat, the head of the PLO who had declared his goal as the destruction of Israel, addressed the U.N. in New York.

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