f animosity between Israel and the PLO followed, often devolving into open violence at the level of skirmishing rather than full-blown warfare.
With both civilians and military leaders on both sides growing tired of the violence after more than a generation, the two sides signed a series of agreements between 1993 and 1997 that transferred almost all Palestinian towns and cities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to Palestinian administration and created an interim body for political governance, the Palestinian Authority (sometimes called the PA), to administer these Palestinian areas until their final status could been determined (Aburish, 1999, p. 27).
In the years since its establishment, the Palestinian Authority A has taken over many of the PLOÆs administrative and negotiating roles with respect to these territories, while the PLO continues to act as an umbrella group representing Palestinian interests both inside the West Bank and Gaza Strip and elsewhere in the world. This division between the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has at leas in so
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