IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 758 
Urging Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is also Chair-
man 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 ter-
rorist organization, which does not recognize Israel and 
calls ‘‘for confronting the occupation’’ of Israel; 
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•HRES 758 IH 
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, co-
lonial 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 impe-
rialism.’’; 
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•HRES 758 IH 
(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 in-
evitable 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 Pal-
estine is completely liberated.’’; 
(7) ‘‘Article (22): Opposing any political solution of-
fered as an alternative to demolishing the Zionist occupa-
tion in Palestine, as well as any project intended to liq-
uidate 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 lib-
eral 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 
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•HRES 758 IH 
and terrorism against Israel, oppose any political so-
lution 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. 
Æ 
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