IV 

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. 

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 

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; 


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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.’’; 


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(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 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) urges Palestinian Authority President 

3 Mahmoud Abbas, who is also Chairman of his Fatah 

4 party, to officially abrogate the 10 articles in the 

5 Fatah Constitution that call for Israel’s destruction 


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1 and terrorism against Israel, oppose any political so2 lution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and label 

3 Zionism as racism; and 

4 (2) condemns the continuing existence of these 

5 articles as part of the Fatah Constitution. 

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