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[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 499 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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.

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                   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

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                               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 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 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
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) urges President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian 
        Authority, who is also head of the Fatah Party, to officially 
        abrogate the 10 articles from the Fatah Constitution that call 
        for the destruction of Israel and terrorism against Israel, 
        oppose any political solution, and label Zionism as racism; and
            (2) condemns the continuing existence of these articles as 
        part of the Fatah Constitution.
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