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1. ‘#Palestine From the River to the Sea’ = Always been a call for annihilation not liberation. The first recorded use of the phrase was by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) when it was formed in 1964.
2. Back in 1964, much of the land west of the Jordan River was controlled by #Egypt and #Jordan. But the PLO’s 1964 Charter specifically excluded both the #WestBank and #Gaza from the territories it sought to “liberate.”
3. The phrase was used by the PLO leadership, specifically #AbuIyad, the head of the #BlackSeptember terrorist group, which in the name of “freedom” and “resistance” in 1972 kidnapped, castrated and then murdered 11 Israeli Olympians.4 
