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 Why has Hamas never ceased
to target Jewish civilians within
Israel even after Israel withdrew
from the Gaza Strip more than
three years ago? As with the
PLO, the answer lies in its
governing charter.
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The Palestinian National Covenant — the
“Constitution” of the P.L.O. — simply does not permit the existence of the
State of Israel. Therefore, there can only be peace in Aretz Yisrael when
either the P.L.O. or Israel is totally eliminated from Ha'Aretz.
That certainly does not
mean that it is necessary to eliminate faithful Israeli citizens who
happen to be Arabic. It does mean, however, that all Arabs living in
Ha'Aretz must acquiesce to the historical fact that Aretz Israel belongs
to HaShem, not to Allah, and HaShem has decreed that the sons of Avraham,
Yitzchak, and Ya`akov shall live there forever. Our cousins, the sons of
Ishmael, are welcome to share in the blessings and inheritance of Israel
if they will only renounce the demon Allah and his false prophet Mohammed,
and accept and honor the only true God, the God
of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya`akov, Who is also the true God
of Ishmael.
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Figure 1. "The Arab Nation" as defined by the PLO
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THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL COVENANT
(Emphasis and commentary added)
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ARTICLE 1
Palestine is the homeland of
the Palestinian Arab people and an integral part of the great Arab
homeland, and the people of Palestine is a part
of the Arab nation. [See Figure 1,
above, for the PLO’s definition of “the Arab nation.”]
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Figure 2. Israel's boundaries as established
in 1920 by the League of Nations.
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ARTICLE 2
Palestine with its boundaries
that existed at the time of the British mandate is an integral regional
unit. [See Figure 2 for the boundaries of Israel
as they were in 1920.]
ARTICLE 3
The
Palestinian Arab people possess the legal right to its homeland,
and when the liberation of its homeland is completed it will exercise self
determination solely according to its own will and choice.
ARTICLE 4
The Palestinian personality is
an innate, persistent characteristic that does not disappear, and it is
transferred from fathers to sons. The Zionist occupation, and the
dispersal of the Palestinian Arab people as a result of the disasters
which came over it, do not deprive it of its Palestinian personality and
affiliation and do not nullify them.
ARTICLE 5
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Figure 3. Israel's boundaries as set by UN
Resolution 181 and rejected by the Arabs
living in Israel in 1947. |
The Palestinians are the Arab
citizens who were living permanently in Palestine until 1947, whether they
were expelled from there or remained, whoever is born to a Palestinian
Arab father after this date, within Palestine or outside it, is a
Palestinian.
ARTICLE 6
Jews who were living
permanently in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion will
be considered Palestinians.
ARTICLE 7
The Palestinian affiliation
and the material, spiritual and historical tie with Palestine are
permanent realities. The upbringing of the
Palestinian individual in an Arab and revolutionary
[“terrorist” — see Article 10] fashion, the undertaking of
all means of forging consciousness and
training the Palestinian, in order to acquaint him profoundly with his
homeland, spiritually and materially, and
preparing him for the conflict and the armed struggle, as well
as for the sacrifice of his property and his life to restore his homeland,
until the liberation all this is a national duty.
ARTICLE 8
The phase in which the people
of Palestine is living is that of the national struggle for the liberation
of Palestine. Therefore, the contradictions among the Palestinian national
forces are a secondary order which must be suspended in the interest of
the fundamental contradiction between Zionism and colonialism on the one
side, and the Palestinian Arab people on the other. On this basis, the
Palestinian masses, whether in the homeland or in places of exile,
organizations and individuals, comprise one national front which acts to
restore Palestine and liberate it through armed struggle.
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Figure 4. Israel's boundaries from the
War of Independence cease-fire in 1949
to the eve of the Six-Day War in 1967. |
ARTICLE 9
Armed
struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine and is therefore
a strategy and not tactics. The Palestinian Arab people affirms its
absolute resolution and abiding determination to
pursue the armed struggle and to march forward toward the armed
popular revolution, to liberate its homeland and return to it, to maintain
its right to a natural life in it, and to exercise its right to
self-determination in it and sovereignty over it.
ARTICLE 10
Fadayeen [fidayeen, commando, terrorist]
actions forms the nucleus of the popular Palestinian
war of liberation. This demands its promotion, extension and
protection, and the mobilization of all the mass and scientific capacities
of the Palestinians, their organization and the involvement of the armed
Palestinian revolution, and the cohesion in the national struggle among
the various groups of the people of Palestine, and between them and the
Arab masses, to guarantee the continuation of the revolution, its
advancement and victory.
ARTICLE 11
The Palestinians will have
three mottos: National Unity, National Mobilization, and National
Liberation.
ARTICLE 12
The Palestinian Arab peoples
believe in Arab unity. In order to fulfill its role in realizing this, it
must preserve, in this phase of national struggle, its Palestinian
personality and the constituents thereof, increase consciousness of its
existence and resist any plan that tends to disintegrate or weaken it.
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Figure 5. Cease-Fire lines at the end of
the 1967 Six-Day War. Note that Israel's
territory has more than doubled in their
act of self-defense.
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ARTICLE 13
Arab
unity and the liberation of Palestine are two complimentary aims.
Each one paves the way for realization of the other. Arab unity leads to
the liberation of Palestine [read “elimination of
Israel” — the “the liberation of Palestine” requires the expulsion of all
Jews from “Palestine” as defined in Article 2], and the
liberation of Palestine leads to Arab unity. Working for both goes hand in
hand.
ARTICLE 14
The destiny of the Arab nation, indeed
the very Arab existence, depends upon the destiny
of the Palestinian issue. [Really? See
Figure 1. That's very much like saying that a whale’s existence is
threatened by a minnow on its back.] The endeavor and the
effort of the Arab nation to liberate Palestine follows from this
connection. The people of Palestine assumes its vanguard role in realizing
this sacred national aim.
The
liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint,
is a national duty to repulse the
Zionist, imperialist invasion from the great Arab homeland and
to purge the Zionist presence from Palestine.
Its full responsibilities fall upon the Arab nation, peoples and
governments, with the Palestinian Arab people at their head.
For this purpose,
the Arab nation must mobilize all its military,
human, material, and spiritual capabilities to participate actively with
the people of Palestine in the liberation of Palestine. They
must, especially in the present stage of armed Palestinian revolution,
grant and offer the people of Palestine all possible help, and every
material and human support, and afford it every sure means and opportunity
enabling it to continue to assume its vanguard
role in pursuing its armed revolution until the liberation of its homeland.
ARTICLE 16
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Figure 6. Israel today. Note
that nearly all of the area
gained in the 1967 war has
been voluntarily returned
to the invading nations.
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The liberation of Palestine
from a spiritual viewpoint, will prepare an atmosphere of tranquility and
peace for the Holy Land, in the shade of which all the Holy places will be
safeguarded, and freedom of worship and visitation to all
[just like the Jews now have access to Temple
Mount?] will be guaranteed, without distinction or
discrimination of race, color, language, or religion. For this reason, the
people of Palestine looks to the support of all spiritual forces in the
world.
ARTICLE 17
The liberation of Palestine,
from a human viewpoint, will restore to the Palestinian man his dignity,
glory and freedom. For this, the Palestinian Arab people looks to the
support of those in the world who believe in the dignity and freedom of
man.
ARTICLE 18
The liberation of Palestine,
from an international viewpoint, is a defensive act necessitated by the
requirements of self-defense. For this reason, the people of Palestine,
desiring to befriend all people, looks to the support of the states which
love freedom, justice and peace in restoring the legal situation to
Palestine, establishing security and peace in its territory, and enabling
its people to exercise national sovereignty and national freedom.
ARTICLE 19
The
partitioning of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of Israel is
fundamentally null and void, whatever time has elapsed, because
it was contrary to the wish of the people of Palestine and its natural
right to its homeland, and contradicts the principles embodied in the
charter of the United Nations, the first of which is the right of
self-determination.
ARTICLE 20
The Balfour Declaration, the
mandate document, and what has based upon them are considered null and
void. The claim of a historical or spiritual tie
between the Jews and Palestine does not tally with historic realities
[both the Biblical and extra-Biblical historical
records are lies?] nor with the constituents of statehood in
their sense. Judaism, in its character as a
religion of revelation, is not a nationality with an independent
existence. Likewise, the Jews are not one people with an independent
personality, they are rather citizens to the state to which they belong.
The
Palestinian Arab people, in expressing itself through the armed
Palestinian revolution, rejects every solution that is a substitute for a
complete liberation of Palestine, and rejects all plans that aim at the
settlement of the Palestinian issue or its internationalization.
ARTICLE 22
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Figure 7. Israel as defined by the PLO Covenant.
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Zionism is a political movement organically related to world
imperialism and hostile to all movements of
liberation and progress in the world. It is a racist and fanatical
movement in its formation; aggressive, expansionist and colonialist in its
aims; and Fascist and Nazi in its means. Israel is a tool of the Zionist
movement and a human geographical base for world imperialism.
It is a concentration and jumping off point for imperialism in the heart
of the Arab homeland, to strike at the hopes of the Arab nation for
liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant threat to peace in the Middle East and the entire
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
liquidate the Zionist and imperialist
presence and bring about the stabilization of peace in the Middle East,
the people of Palestine looks to the support of all liberal men of the
world and all the forces of good, progress and peace; and implores all of
them, regardless of their different leanings and orientations, to offer
all help and support to the people of Palestine in its just and legal
struggle to liberate its homeland.
ARTICLE 23
The demands of security and
peace and the requirements of truth and justice oblige all states that
preserve friendly relations among peoples and maintain loyalty of citizens
to their homelands to consider Zionism an illegitimate movement and to
prohibit its existence and activity.
ARTICLE 24
The Palestinian Arab people
believe in the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and the right of peoples to exercise
them.
ARTICLE 25
To realize the aims of this
covenant and its principles the Palestinian Liberation Organization will
undertake its full role in liberating Palestine.
ARTICLE 26
The Palestinian Liberation
Organization, which represents the forces of the Palestinian revolution,
is responsible for the movement of the Palestinian Arab people in its
struggle to restore the homeland, liberate it, return to it and exercise
the right of self-determination in it. This responsibility extends to all
military, political, and financial matters, and all else that the
Palestinian issue requires in the Arab and international spheres.
ARTICLE 27
The Palestinian Liberation
Organization will cooperate with all Arab states, each according to its
capacities, and will maintain neutrality in their mutual relations in the
light of, and on the basis of, the requirements of the battle of
liberation, and will not interfere in the internal affairs of any Arab
state.
ARTICLE 28
The Palestinian Arab people
insists upon the originality and independence of its national revolution
and rejects every manner of interference, guardianship, and subordination.
ARTICLE 29
The Palestinian Arab people
possesses the prior and original right in liberating and restoring its
homeland and will define its position with reference to all states and
powers on the basis of their positions with reference to the issue and
extent of their support for the Palestinian Arab people in their
revolution to realize their aims.
ARTICLE 30
The fighters and bearers of
arms [any and all Arab terrorists with any weapon
of any kind] in the battle of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army, which will be the protecting arm of the Palestinian Arab
people.
ARTICLE 31
This organization shall have a
flag, oath, and anthem, all of which will be determined in accordance with
a special system.
ARTICLE 32
To this covenant is attached a
law known as the fundamental law of the Palestine Liberation, in which is
determined the manner of the organization's formation, its committees,
institutions, the special functions of everyone of them and all the
requisite duties associated with them in accordance with this covenant.
ARTICLE 33
This covenant cannot be
amended except by a two-thirds majority of all the members of the National
Council of the Palestinian Liberation Organization in a special session
called for that purpose.
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No one
can pull on the heart strings of the world's emotions quite like Mr.
Arafat. Yet try as he may, actions speak louder than words. When
terrorists shoot at children in a playground. When they take careful
aim to kill this 10-month old baby sleeping sleeping in her mother's
arms. The myth of Arafat as a peace maker has, once and for all,
been laid to rest. And his designs on the entire State of Israel are
abundantly clear.
To add
insult to injury, the Palestinian Press reported that this adorable
10-month old baby was not murdered by a terrorist, rather by his own
mother.
Not only
is the truth grossly distorted in the media, each report concludes
with an obligatory scorecard of deaths on each side. We are made to
feel that as long as Israel has a lower number of fatalities, we
have nothing to complain about.
We must
not let ourselves be desensitized by the media. We must maintain a
clear moral distinction between Palestinian children who die while
aggressively confronting the Israeli army with deadly stones, or a
school bus, or sleeping in their mothers' arms. |
10-month
old Shalhevet Pass, of blessed memory, is one of 75 victims of Arab
terror since September 27, 2000.
The
Israel Emergency Solidarity Fund was established to help
the families who have lost loved ones in the recent wave of
terrorism. We have visited many of them, as well as those who were
wounded or left permanently disabled, to assess their physical and
emotional needs.
We raise
funds and promote solidarity through Walk-A-Thons held in Jewish
communities. Recently, several took place on Long Island, Queens,
and Riverdale. More are in the planning stages in communities all
over the country. We can help you plan a Walk-A-Thon in your
community. An hour's walk and a few sponsors is all it takes.
Of
course, we can lend support to any other ideas for raising funds or
promoting solidarity.
Our
administrative costs are privately funded, so all monies we collect
directly benefit the families.
Call us
at (516) 390-7162 or e-mail us at help[at]walk4israel[dot]com with
your suggestions.
Because
the murder of Jews is even more tragic if we don't help the families
they left behind. |
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