Kammala wannan jumlar: A lokacin Yakin Gulf a farkon 1991, da yawa daga cikin PLO tare da Arafat sun goyi bayan Iraki. Keɓewar diflomasiyya sakamakon wannan ya sa Tarayyar Soviet ta rage tallafi ga PLO. Soviet Union kanta ta rushe a watan Disamba na 1991, 'yan watanni bayan juyin mulkin Agusta na wannan shekarar. Sakamakon haka Kungiyar 'Yanci ta Palasdinawa ta rasa daya daga cikin manyan masu tallafa mata. Har ila yau, PLO ya kasance mai tausayi sosai ga masu juyin mulki, wanda ya fusata Gorbachev da shugabannin Soviet. Wannan ya sa gwamnatin Soviet ta daina goyon bayan PLO. A sakamakon haka, kungiyar PLO ta fara
tattaunawar zaman lafiya da Isra'ila a 1991. Wadannan abubuwan da suka faru, tare da karuwar musulunci a cikin al'ummar Palasdinawa da kuma rikice-rikice sun raunana kungiyoyin mayakan Palasdinawa masu goyon bayan Rasha, mafi yawansu sun dauki nauyin Marxist-Leninist.