During the Lebanese Civil War , beginning in 1976 , the 1982 Lebanon War , and the Sabra and Shatila massacre , al-Hout survived ten Israeli assassination attempts . He remained in Lebanon when Arafat and most of the PLO leadership were exiled from the country . As the PLO 's representative to Lebanon , following the defeat of the organization to Israeli forces in 1982 , al-Hout was responsible for handing over its remaining weapons to the Lebanese Army after most of its heavy weaponry was donated to their ally , the Lebanese National Movement ( LNM ) . On 19 December 1984 , he stated " The establishment of a Palestinian state over part of the Palestinian soil does not amount to the renunciation of the strategic aim . It is a pity that Israel realizes that ... and knows that the establishment of such a state constitutes the reassertion of Palestinian national identity and the beginning of the end for Israel . " In 1991 , Arafat — wanting his admired , but loud-spoken , friend inside the leading circle — reappointed al-Hout to the PLO-EC . He then became a founding member of the Arab National Conference in 1992 . In response to the 1993 Oslo Accords signed by Yasser Arafat , al-Hout resigned from his post in August 1993 in the PLO-EC along with Palestinian cultural chief Mahmoud Darwish and discontinued to represent the PLO at the UNGA . Al-Hout strongly advocated that all of historical Palestine belonged to the Palestinians , in one state , rejecting the two-state solution agreed on in the accords
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Shafiq al-Hout