[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 758 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 758

   Urging Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is also 
Chairman of his Fatah party, to officially abrogate the 10 articles in 
the Fatah Constitution that call for Israel's destruction and terrorism 
     against Israel, oppose any political solution to the Israeli-
           Palestinian conflict, and label Zionism as racism.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 18, 2007

    Mr. Blunt (for himself and Ms. Berkley) submitted the following 
   resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Urging Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is also 
Chairman of his Fatah party, to officially abrogate the 10 articles in 
the Fatah Constitution that call for Israel's destruction and terrorism 
     against Israel, oppose any political solution to the Israeli-
           Palestinian conflict, and label Zionism as racism.

Whereas on October 3, 2006, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said, 
        ``It is not required of Hamas, or of Fatah, or of the Popular Front to 
        recognize Israel.'';
Whereas on February 9, 2007, President Mahmoud Abbas openly signed the Mecca 
        Agreement with Hamas, a terrorist organization, which does not recognize 
        Israel and calls ``for confronting the occupation'' of Israel;
Whereas in May 2006, President Mahmoud Abbas endorsed the ``Prisoner's Plan'', a 
        document produced by jailed Palestinian terrorists, that calls for 
        continued terrorism against Israel, does not accept Israel's existence 
        as a Jewish state, and abrogates Palestinian obligations under the 
        Declaration of Principles, signed at Washington, DC, on September 13, 
        1993, (commonly referred to as the ``Oslo Accords''), and the 2003 
        Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the 
        Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (commonly referred to as the ``Roadmap for 
        Peace'');
Whereas in 2007, there continue to exist 10 specific articles in chapter 1 of 
        the Fatah Constitution that call for Israel's destruction, calls for the 
        armed struggle and the armed revolution against Israel to continue, call 
        for the prevention of Jewish immigration to Israel, oppose any political 
        solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and label Zionism as 
        racism; and
Whereas the 10 articles in the Fatah Constitution opposing Israel and Zionism 
        are the following:

    (1) ``Article (4): The Palestinian struggle is part and parcel of the 
world-wide struggle against Zionism, colonialism and international 
imperialism.'';

    (2) ``Article (7): The Zionist Movement is racial, colonial and 
aggressive in ideology, goals, organization and method.'';

    (3) ``Article (8): The Israeli existence in Palestine is a Zionist 
invasion with a colonial expansive base, and it is a natural ally to 
colonialism and international imperialism.'';

    (4) ``Article (12): Complete liberation of Palestine, and eradication 
of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural existence.'';

    (5) ``Article (17): Armed public revolution is the inevitable method to 
liberating Palestine.'';

    (6) ``Article (19): Armed struggle is a strategy and not a tactic, and 
the Palestinian Arab People's armed revolution is a decisive factor in the 
liberation fight and in uprooting the Zionist existence, and this struggle 
will not cease unless the Zionist state is demolished and Palestine is 
completely liberated.'';

    (7) ``Article (22): Opposing any political solution offered as an 
alternative to demolishing the Zionist occupation in Palestine, as well as 
any project intended to liquidate the Palestinian case or impose any 
international mandate on its people.'';

    (8) ``Article (23): Maintaining relations with Arab countries . . . 
with the provision that the armed struggle is not negatively affected.'';

    (9) ``Article (24): Maintaining relations with all liberal forces 
supporting our just struggle in order to resist together Zionism and 
imperialism.''; and

    (10) ``Article (25): Convincing concerned countries in the world to 
prevent Jewish immigration to Palestine as a method of solving the 
problem.'': Now, therefore, be it

    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) urges Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 
        who is also Chairman of his Fatah party, to officially abrogate 
        the 10 articles in the Fatah Constitution that call for 
        Israel's destruction and terrorism against Israel, oppose any 
        political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and 
        label Zionism as racism; and
            (2) condemns the continuing existence of these articles as 
        part of the Fatah Constitution.
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