April 10, 2021 at 3:15 pm "No conciliation, no coexistence and no negotiations with Israel" – those were the famous "Three Nos" of the August 1967 Khartoum summit of the Arab League. This was a defiant declaration of the refusal to accept Israeli violence, expansion and apartheid, in the wake of the June 1967 war that Israel unleashed upon the surrounding Arab states and indigenous Palestinians. The late Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) diplomat Shafiq Al-Hout recalled in his political memoir, , the preparations for the Khartoum summit. It was a close-run affair; the PLO was very nearly not even invited. The Arab kings and other despots dominating most of the Arab League at that time were not particular fans of the PLO. Over the next few years, they would become even less keen as it was taken over by Palestinian revolutionary groups, such as Yasser Arafat's Fatah and George Habash's Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).