The PLO leadership was treated to the finest things in life while the people under them struggled to find their next meal.

These young people who have grown up under Israeli occupation take a much more radical approach than the PLO leadership.

The latter, whilst loyal to the PLO leadership, were among its sharpest critics.

Despite the setbacks before the Uprising there had been growing recognition of PLO leadership in the territories.

In 1986 one poll suggested that one-quarter of the population found the PLO leadership too accommodationist.

Some, particularly within the popular movement, feared a sudden political settlement in which the PLO leadership might be installed as the government of Palestine.

But all the PLO leadership will come with me to Jericho," he said.

I want the entire PLO leadership to tell the world's television cameras: 'This accord is a test for us.

Some reports also claimed that the Gulf war had generated divisions within the PLO leadership.

Since that time, he developed a close relationship with Arafat and other members of the PLO leadership.