Cairo Agreement (1969)

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The Cairo Agreement was an agreement dated November 2, 1969, that came about during talks between Yasser Arafat and the Lebanese army commander, General Emile Bustani . The Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser is said to have helped to bring it about.

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Although no text was ever published, an unofficial text appeared in the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar on April 20, 1970. The agreement gave Palestinian militiamen more rights in Lebanon.

Part of the agreement covered 16 UNRWA camps in Lebanon - home to 300,000 Palestinian refugees. These were withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the Maronite-dominated army intelligence service Deuxième Bureau and placed under the Palestinian Armed Struggle Command - the military high command of the PLO. Officially, the camps were still under Lebanese sovereignty, from 1969 onwards they became the basis for the guerrilla movement.

The agreement also gave the Palestinians the right to join the armed struggle. It also allowed them to attack Israel from Lebanon and to exercise rulership in the camps

Subsequently, the PLO de facto created a "state within a state" "in Lebanon.

Consequences

Palestinian influence in Lebanon grew in the early 1970s, especially after Black September (Jordan) in September 1970.

The Lebanese army could not stop this because it was too weak. In April 1975 the Lebanese civil war broke out. The first fighting took place between the PLO and the Christians. Later the Lebanese national movement took part in the fighting on the side of the PLO. Right-wing Maronite President Suleiman Frangieh calls on Syria for help. The PLO withdrew umpteen to the south and carried out guerrilla actions against Israel . In 1978 Israel invaded Lebanon

Further escalations led to Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 .

Withdrawal

In June 1987, Lebanese President Amine Gemayel signed a law that abolished the Cairo Agreement. The law was passed by the Lebanese Parliament on May 21, 1987 Prime Minister Salim El Hoss later signed it.

literature

  • Cobban, Helena (1984). The Palestinian Liberation Organization: People, Power, and Politics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-27216-5
  • Federal Research Division (2004). Lebanon: A Country Study . Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1-4191-2943-0
  • Kushner, Harvey, W. (2003). Encyclopedia of Terrorism . Sage Publications. ISBN 0-7619-2408-6
  • Roeder, Philip G. & Rothchild, Donald S. (2005). Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy After Civil Wars . Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-8974-1
  • Rubenberg, Cheryl A. (1986). Israel and the American National Interest: A Critical Examination . University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06074-1
  • Solh, Raghid el- (2004). Lebanon and Arabism . IBTauris. ISBN 1-86064-051-6
  • Weinberger, Naomi Joy (1986). Syrian Intervention in Lebanon: The 1975-76 Civil War . New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504010-4
  • Weisburd, Arthur (1997). Use of Force: The Practice of States, 1945-1991 . Penn State Press. ISBN 0-271-01680-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cobban, 1984, p. 47.
  2. ^ Roeder & Rothchild, 2005, p. 231.
  3. ↑ a b Weisburd, 1997, p. 142.
  4. ↑ a b Cobban, 1984, p. 48.
  5. ↑ Cobban, 1984, p. 64.
  6. ^ Weinberger, 1986, p. 126.
  7. ↑ Kail C. Ellis: The struggle of a small country in a regional context. Archived from the original on January 14, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: ASQ . 21, No. 1, Winter 1999, pp. 5-25. Retrieved March 17, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.polsci.wvu.edu
  8. ↑ Wassim Mroueh: Looking back on almost 7 decades of Cabinet crises . In: The Daily Star , June 14, 2011. Retrieved April 8, 2013. 
  9. ^ Rubenberg, 1986, p. 137
  10. ↑ a b Kushner, 2003, p. 282.
  11. ^ Federal Research Division, 2004, p. 206.
  12. ^ The New York Times, Lebanese scrap PLO accord, May 22, 1987