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Palestine–United States relations: what Wikipedia removed

US-Palestinian relations have been shaped since the 1960s by American preconditions for engaging the PLO. Through October 2023 the opening said one of those conditions was renunciation of terrorism, alongside accepting UN Resolutions 242 and 338 and recognizing Israel’s right to exist. Today the opening carries none of the three conditions, though the word terror appears 17 times in the body. A reader today does not learn that renouncing terrorism was one of Washington’s stated conditions for engaging the PLO.

The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 17. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The original opening line and heading were reworded into the current summary.
  • The sentence on the US not maintaining a diplomatic office was reworded, not removed.
  • The detail that the US designated a Palestinian Affairs Unit was dropped from the opening.
  • The sentence on the PLO’s diplomatic focus since 2011 was reworded, not removed.
  • The US precondition that the Palestinians renounce terrorism was dropped from the opening, though the word still appears in the body.

How it opened then, and now

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2015 (revision 665079027):

Bilateral relations Palestine – United States relations are relations between the State of Palestine and the United States . Official diplomatic relations do not exist in the sense of diplomatic exchanges and consular services since the United States does not recognise Palestine as a state. However, relations between the U.S. government and the PLO , as the U.S.-recognised representative of the Palestinian people , existed from the 1970s onward. The PLO is represented in Washington by a General Delegation. The U.S. government does not have any official representative office within Palestinian Authority areas, but has a Consulate General in Jerusalem , which handles relations with the Palesti…

2025 (revision 1294934182):

Bilateral relations Joe Biden and Mahmoud Abbas at the Palestinian Presidential Palace in Bethlehem on 15 July 2022 Political relations between Palestine and the United States have been complex and strained since the 1960s. While the U.S. does not recognize the State of Palestine , it recognizes the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the legitimate representative entity for the Palestinian people; following the Oslo Accords , it recognized the Palestinian National Authority as the legitimate Palestinian government of the Palestinian territories . Due to its non-recognition of Palestine , the U.S. does not maintain any official diplomatic offices in the Palestinian territories nor doe…

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