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110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 499 

Urging Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is also the 

head of the 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, and label Zionism as racism. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 3, 2008 

Mr. SPECTER (for himself, Mr. WYDEN, and Mr. CASEY) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Urging Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 

who is also the head of the 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, and label Zionism as racism. 

Whereas, on October 3, 2006, President Mahmoud Abbas of 

the Palestinian Authority said, ‘‘It is not required of 

Hamas, or of Fatah, or of the Popular Front to recognize Israel’’; 

Whereas, on February 8, 2007, President Mahmoud Abbas 

openly signed the Mecca Agreement with Hamas, which 


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does not recognize Israel and calls ‘‘for confronting the 

[Israeli] occupation’’; 

Whereas, in 2007, there continue to exist 10 specific articles 

out of 27 articles in Chapter 1 of the Fatah Constitution 

that call for Israel’s destruction, call for the armed struggle and armed revolution against Israel to continue, call 

for the prevention of Jewish immigration to Israel, oppose any political solution, and label Zionism as racism; 

and 

Whereas the 10 articles of the Fatah Constitution that oppose Israel and Zionism are: (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 


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its people.’’; (8) ‘‘Article (23): Maintaining relations with 

Arab countries . . . with the proviso 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 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 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) urges President Mahmoud Abbas of the 

3 Palestinian Authority, who is also head of the Fatah 

4 Party, to officially abrogate the 10 articles from the 

5 Fatah Constitution that call for the destruction of 

6 Israel and terrorism against Israel, oppose any polit7 ical solution, and label Zionism as racism; and 

8 (2) condemns the continuing existence of these 

9 articles as part of the Fatah Constitution. 

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