Quote Originally Posted by Old_pie View Post
PLO did not become HAMAS.

If you watch the documentary I cited earlier you'd see that the PLO (Arafat) and Rabin had agreed a Peace Deal (Oslo Accord) and the two men considered each other as partners. Unfortunately Arafat did not control all the extremists and Hamas didn't go along with the deal. So really Hamas defeated the PLO, not Israel.

Rabin being then assassinated by a Jewish right-wing extremist, and Arafat failing to achieve the agreed Palestinian liberation, and subsequently also died in somewhat mysterious circumstances, shows how hard this all is without having misinformation.
Sorry - poor choice of words 'Became' wasn't correct. But I thought they were saying on the Alasdair Campbell / Rory Stewart podcast that Hamas filled the void left by the PLO, i.e. with the assassination of Rabin and subsequent marginalisation of Arafat (as he lost his negotiating partner), everything became more extreme - on both sides. It is indeed complex, and difficult to follow.