` :::The OIC website explicitly says state of PALESTINE, recognised 1969 and gives its national day, National Day 1/1 (1 January 1969), not 15 November 1988. And this in addition to what it says in Palestinian National Covenant (no books used!) that ``Following a 1963 Draft Constitution the first version of the Charter was written by Ahmad Shukeiri, the first chairman of the PLO, using the slightly different name al-Mithaq al-Qawmi al-Filastini, meant to reflect its origins in Nasser's Pan-Arabism.[1] The first official English translation rendered al-Mithaq as ``covenant``, while later versions have tended to use ``charter.`` (The word changed in 1968 in the Arabic name is translated as ``national`` in either English translation.)`` All the ingredients of a 'state': a dictator, a following ready to terrorize opponents, a Charter that spells only a war of national liberation so popular in the 60s, and a recognition by a group of states created same year. :::To me this is the recognition you were talking about, illegitimate or not. However, you clearly think that PALESTINE spells PLO, and since there is this magic 1RR rule that in one swift swoop allows one editor to undo about 4 hours of research of another, than I leave you to your own devices. It seems to me that ironically the state of advancement towards peace in the real world is very much reflected by the goings on in Wikipedia's subject area. Its full of people so passionately devoted to Wikipedia that they are happy to proverbially 'shoot' another editor's brains out to prove their dedication to administrative policy over article quality.  `