palestinian diaspora and the PLO

• how many arabs fled from their homes in Palestine in the 1948-9 war?

  over 700,000
• after the war ended in 1949, what did the UN form?

  the United Nations Relied and Works Agency.
• what did the UNRWA set up?


  refugee camps, provided clothes, food, shelter and education.
• what does repatriate mean?


  to send people back to their own country
• what was the Israelis response to the Un wish to repatriate the refugees?

  they refused to allow them to return to their lands in Israel.
• what did the Israelis continue to do?

  continued to take over Arab villages and to confiscate the property of Palestinians who fled from Israel
• By 1953, how many jews did Israel absorb?

  300,000 from Arab countries
• what new group of Palestinian fighters emerged?

  Fatah
• when was Fatah created and who led it?

  1959 and Yasser Arafat
• when was the PLO set up?

  1964
• what was the largest group within PLO?

  Fatah
• from 1965 and 1967 what did Fatah carry an increasing number of?

  Guerilla attacks on Israel
• what Arab country supported Fatah the most?

  Syria
• in 1968, who led the PLO?

  Fatah, with Arafat as chairman