PLO, the /ˌpiː el ˈəʊ/ BrE AmE
abbreviation for the Palestine Liberation Organization; a political group of Palestinians which was led by Yasser ↑ Arafat from 1969 to 2005. Its original aim was to destroy the state of Israel, but more recently it has worked to establish a separate state of Palestine existing together with Israel. ⇨ ↑ Palestinian National Authority, the