Snake Featherston
Banned
The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the USA in the Cold War embrace a variant of the Palestine Liberation Organization as a proxy. How this happens is up to you, and what happens to the PLO in this situation is also up to you. Maximum points if this PLO remains led by Ahmad Shuqeri, but this is not a requirement in any sense of the term. In terms of discussion from the challenge, how would the PLO fare with US equipment and methodology? Something tells me that given Arafat and company were unable to capitalize on some extremely modern equipment by the standards of the time from the Soviet side of the Cold War that they'd not fare all that much better with US equipment, but US methods adopted well might improve PLO skills to some degree. Personally I think the PLO would be a Middle Eastern ARVN for the USA, in terms of its effectiveness, but having one of those all by itself would be a fascinating cultural POD all by itself.