Article 1: Palestine is the homeland of the Arab
Palestinian people; it is an indivisible part of
the Arab homeland, and the Palestinian people
art an Integral part of the Arab nation.
Article 2- Palestine, with the boundaries it
had during the British Mandate, is an
indivisible territorial unit
Article 3: The Palestinian people possess the
legal right to their homeland and have the right
to determine their destiny after achieving the
liberation of their country
Article 4: The Palestinian identity is a genuine,
essential and inherent characters It is
transmitted from parents to children. The
Zionist occupation and the dispersal of the
Palestinian Arab people...do not make them
lose their Palestinian identity...
Article 5: The Palestinians are those Arab
nationals who, until 1947. normally resided in
Palestine regardless of whether they were
evicted from it or have stayed there. Anyone
born, after that date, of a Palestinian
father-whether inside Palestine or outside it-is
also a Palestinian.
Article 6: The Jews who had normally
resided in Palestine until the beginning of the
Zionist invasion [1917-ed.] will be considered
Palestinians.
Article 7: ...It is a national duty to bring up
individual Palestinians in an Arab
revolutionary manner... He [all Palestinians]
must be prepared for the armed struggle and
ready to sacrifice his wealth and his life in
order to win back his homeland and bring
about its liberation.
Article 8 The phase in their history, through
which tile Palestinian people are now living, is
that of national (watani) struggle for the
liberation of Palestine...On this basis the
Palestinian masses, regardless of whether
they are residing in the national homeland or
in diaspora (mayfjir) constitute-both their
organization and the individuals-one
national front working for the retrieval of
Palestine and its liberation through armed
struggle.
Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to
liberate Palestine. Thus it is the overall
strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The
Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute
determination and firm resolution to continue
their armed struggle and to work for the
liberation of their country and their return to
it...
Article 10: Commando action constitutes
the nucleus of the Palestinian popular
liberation war. This requires its escalation,
comprehensiveness and mobilization of all the
Palestinian popular and educational efforts and
their organization and involvement in the
armed Palestinian revolution...
Article 13: Arab unity and the liberation of
Palestine are two complementary objectives,
the attainment of either of which facilitates the
attainment of the order...
Article 14: The destiny of the Arab nation, and
indeed Arab existence itself, depends upon the
destiny of the Palestinian cause...The people of
Palestine play the role of the vanguard in the
realization of this sacred national (qawmi)
goal.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from
an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi)
duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and
imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of
Zionism in Palestine...Accordingly the Arab
nation must mobilize all its military, human,
and moral and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian
people in the liberation of Palestine. It must,
particularly in the phase of the armed
Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the
Palestinian people with all possible help, and
material and human support, and make
available to them the means and
opportunities that will enable them to
continue to carry out their leading role in the
armed revolution...
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 2- Palestine, with the boundaries it
had during the British Mandate, is an
indivisible territorial unit
Article 3: The Palestinian people possess the
legal right to their homeland and have the right
to determine their destiny after achieving the
liberation of their country
Article 4: The Palestinian identity is a genuine,
essential and inherent characters It is
transmitted from parents to children. The
Zionist occupation and the dispersal of the
Palestinian Arab people...do not make them
lose their Palestinian identity...
Article 5: The Palestinians are those Arab
nationals who, until 1947. normally resided in
Palestine regardless of whether they were
evicted from it or have stayed there. Anyone
born, after that date, of a Palestinian
father-whether inside Palestine or outside it-is
also a Palestinian.
Article 6: The Jews who had normally
resided in Palestine until the beginning of the
Zionist invasion [1917-ed.] will be considered
Palestinians.
Article 7: ...It is a national duty to bring up
individual Palestinians in an Arab
revolutionary manner... He [all Palestinians]
must be prepared for the armed struggle and
ready to sacrifice his wealth and his life in
order to win back his homeland and bring
about its liberation.
Article 8 The phase in their history, through
which tile Palestinian people are now living, is
that of national (watani) struggle for the
liberation of Palestine...On this basis the
Palestinian masses, regardless of whether
they are residing in the national homeland or
in diaspora (mayfjir) constitute-both their
organization and the individuals-one
national front working for the retrieval of
Palestine and its liberation through armed
struggle.
Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to
liberate Palestine. Thus it is the overall
strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The
Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute
determination and firm resolution to continue
their armed struggle and to work for the
liberation of their country and their return to
it...
Article 10: Commando action constitutes
the nucleus of the Palestinian popular
liberation war. This requires its escalation,
comprehensiveness and mobilization of all the
Palestinian popular and educational efforts and
their organization and involvement in the
armed Palestinian revolution...
Article 13: Arab unity and the liberation of
Palestine are two complementary objectives,
the attainment of either of which facilitates the
attainment of the order...
Article 14: The destiny of the Arab nation, and
indeed Arab existence itself, depends upon the
destiny of the Palestinian cause...The people of
Palestine play the role of the vanguard in the
realization of this sacred national (qawmi)
goal.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from
an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi)
duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and
imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of
Zionism in Palestine...Accordingly the Arab
nation must mobilize all its military, human,
and moral and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian
people in the liberation of Palestine. It must,
particularly in the phase of the armed
Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the
Palestinian people with all possible help, and
material and human support, and make
available to them the means and
opportunities that will enable them to
continue to carry out their leading role in the
armed revolution...
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 3: The Palestinian people possess the
legal right to their homeland and have the right
to determine their destiny after achieving the
liberation of their country
Article 4: The Palestinian identity is a genuine,
essential and inherent characters It is
transmitted from parents to children. The
Zionist occupation and the dispersal of the
Palestinian Arab people...do not make them
lose their Palestinian identity...
Article 5: The Palestinians are those Arab
nationals who, until 1947. normally resided in
Palestine regardless of whether they were
evicted from it or have stayed there. Anyone
born, after that date, of a Palestinian
father-whether inside Palestine or outside it-is
also a Palestinian.
Article 6: The Jews who had normally
resided in Palestine until the beginning of the
Zionist invasion [1917-ed.] will be considered
Palestinians.
Article 7: ...It is a national duty to bring up
individual Palestinians in an Arab
revolutionary manner... He [all Palestinians]
must be prepared for the armed struggle and
ready to sacrifice his wealth and his life in
order to win back his homeland and bring
about its liberation.
Article 8 The phase in their history, through
which tile Palestinian people are now living, is
that of national (watani) struggle for the
liberation of Palestine...On this basis the
Palestinian masses, regardless of whether
they are residing in the national homeland or
in diaspora (mayfjir) constitute-both their
organization and the individuals-one
national front working for the retrieval of
Palestine and its liberation through armed
struggle.
Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to
liberate Palestine. Thus it is the overall
strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The
Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute
determination and firm resolution to continue
their armed struggle and to work for the
liberation of their country and their return to
it...
Article 10: Commando action constitutes
the nucleus of the Palestinian popular
liberation war. This requires its escalation,
comprehensiveness and mobilization of all the
Palestinian popular and educational efforts and
their organization and involvement in the
armed Palestinian revolution...
Article 13: Arab unity and the liberation of
Palestine are two complementary objectives,
the attainment of either of which facilitates the
attainment of the order...
Article 14: The destiny of the Arab nation, and
indeed Arab existence itself, depends upon the
destiny of the Palestinian cause...The people of
Palestine play the role of the vanguard in the
realization of this sacred national (qawmi)
goal.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from
an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi)
duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and
imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of
Zionism in Palestine...Accordingly the Arab
nation must mobilize all its military, human,
and moral and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian
people in the liberation of Palestine. It must,
particularly in the phase of the armed
Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the
Palestinian people with all possible help, and
material and human support, and make
available to them the means and
opportunities that will enable them to
continue to carry out their leading role in the
armed revolution...
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 4: The Palestinian identity is a genuine,
essential and inherent characters It is
transmitted from parents to children. The
Zionist occupation and the dispersal of the
Palestinian Arab people...do not make them
lose their Palestinian identity...
Article 5: The Palestinians are those Arab
nationals who, until 1947. normally resided in
Palestine regardless of whether they were
evicted from it or have stayed there. Anyone
born, after that date, of a Palestinian
father-whether inside Palestine or outside it-is
also a Palestinian.
Article 6: The Jews who had normally
resided in Palestine until the beginning of the
Zionist invasion [1917-ed.] will be considered
Palestinians.
Article 7: ...It is a national duty to bring up
individual Palestinians in an Arab
revolutionary manner... He [all Palestinians]
must be prepared for the armed struggle and
ready to sacrifice his wealth and his life in
order to win back his homeland and bring
about its liberation.
Article 8 The phase in their history, through
which tile Palestinian people are now living, is
that of national (watani) struggle for the
liberation of Palestine...On this basis the
Palestinian masses, regardless of whether
they are residing in the national homeland or
in diaspora (mayfjir) constitute-both their
organization and the individuals-one
national front working for the retrieval of
Palestine and its liberation through armed
struggle.
Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to
liberate Palestine. Thus it is the overall
strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The
Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute
determination and firm resolution to continue
their armed struggle and to work for the
liberation of their country and their return to
it...
Article 10: Commando action constitutes
the nucleus of the Palestinian popular
liberation war. This requires its escalation,
comprehensiveness and mobilization of all the
Palestinian popular and educational efforts and
their organization and involvement in the
armed Palestinian revolution...
Article 13: Arab unity and the liberation of
Palestine are two complementary objectives,
the attainment of either of which facilitates the
attainment of the order...
Article 14: The destiny of the Arab nation, and
indeed Arab existence itself, depends upon the
destiny of the Palestinian cause...The people of
Palestine play the role of the vanguard in the
realization of this sacred national (qawmi)
goal.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from
an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi)
duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and
imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of
Zionism in Palestine...Accordingly the Arab
nation must mobilize all its military, human,
and moral and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian
people in the liberation of Palestine. It must,
particularly in the phase of the armed
Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the
Palestinian people with all possible help, and
material and human support, and make
available to them the means and
opportunities that will enable them to
continue to carry out their leading role in the
armed revolution...
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 5: The Palestinians are those Arab
nationals who, until 1947. normally resided in
Palestine regardless of whether they were
evicted from it or have stayed there. Anyone
born, after that date, of a Palestinian
father-whether inside Palestine or outside it-is
also a Palestinian.
Article 6: The Jews who had normally
resided in Palestine until the beginning of the
Zionist invasion [1917-ed.] will be considered
Palestinians.
Article 7: ...It is a national duty to bring up
individual Palestinians in an Arab
revolutionary manner... He [all Palestinians]
must be prepared for the armed struggle and
ready to sacrifice his wealth and his life in
order to win back his homeland and bring
about its liberation.
Article 8 The phase in their history, through
which tile Palestinian people are now living, is
that of national (watani) struggle for the
liberation of Palestine...On this basis the
Palestinian masses, regardless of whether
they are residing in the national homeland or
in diaspora (mayfjir) constitute-both their
organization and the individuals-one
national front working for the retrieval of
Palestine and its liberation through armed
struggle.
Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to
liberate Palestine. Thus it is the overall
strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The
Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute
determination and firm resolution to continue
their armed struggle and to work for the
liberation of their country and their return to
it...
Article 10: Commando action constitutes
the nucleus of the Palestinian popular
liberation war. This requires its escalation,
comprehensiveness and mobilization of all the
Palestinian popular and educational efforts and
their organization and involvement in the
armed Palestinian revolution...
Article 13: Arab unity and the liberation of
Palestine are two complementary objectives,
the attainment of either of which facilitates the
attainment of the order...
Article 14: The destiny of the Arab nation, and
indeed Arab existence itself, depends upon the
destiny of the Palestinian cause...The people of
Palestine play the role of the vanguard in the
realization of this sacred national (qawmi)
goal.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from
an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi)
duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and
imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of
Zionism in Palestine...Accordingly the Arab
nation must mobilize all its military, human,
and moral and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian
people in the liberation of Palestine. It must,
particularly in the phase of the armed
Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the
Palestinian people with all possible help, and
material and human support, and make
available to them the means and
opportunities that will enable them to
continue to carry out their leading role in the
armed revolution...
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 6: The Jews who had normally
resided in Palestine until the beginning of the
Zionist invasion [1917-ed.] will be considered
Palestinians.
Article 7: ...It is a national duty to bring up
individual Palestinians in an Arab
revolutionary manner... He [all Palestinians]
must be prepared for the armed struggle and
ready to sacrifice his wealth and his life in
order to win back his homeland and bring
about its liberation.
Article 8 The phase in their history, through
which tile Palestinian people are now living, is
that of national (watani) struggle for the
liberation of Palestine...On this basis the
Palestinian masses, regardless of whether
they are residing in the national homeland or
in diaspora (mayfjir) constitute-both their
organization and the individuals-one
national front working for the retrieval of
Palestine and its liberation through armed
struggle.
Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to
liberate Palestine. Thus it is the overall
strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The
Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute
determination and firm resolution to continue
their armed struggle and to work for the
liberation of their country and their return to
it...
Article 10: Commando action constitutes
the nucleus of the Palestinian popular
liberation war. This requires its escalation,
comprehensiveness and mobilization of all the
Palestinian popular and educational efforts and
their organization and involvement in the
armed Palestinian revolution...
Article 13: Arab unity and the liberation of
Palestine are two complementary objectives,
the attainment of either of which facilitates the
attainment of the order...
Article 14: The destiny of the Arab nation, and
indeed Arab existence itself, depends upon the
destiny of the Palestinian cause...The people of
Palestine play the role of the vanguard in the
realization of this sacred national (qawmi)
goal.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from
an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi)
duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and
imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of
Zionism in Palestine...Accordingly the Arab
nation must mobilize all its military, human,
and moral and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian
people in the liberation of Palestine. It must,
particularly in the phase of the armed
Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the
Palestinian people with all possible help, and
material and human support, and make
available to them the means and
opportunities that will enable them to
continue to carry out their leading role in the
armed revolution...
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 7: ...It is a national duty to bring up
individual Palestinians in an Arab
revolutionary manner... He [all Palestinians]
must be prepared for the armed struggle and
ready to sacrifice his wealth and his life in
order to win back his homeland and bring
about its liberation.
Article 8 The phase in their history, through
which tile Palestinian people are now living, is
that of national (watani) struggle for the
liberation of Palestine...On this basis the
Palestinian masses, regardless of whether
they are residing in the national homeland or
in diaspora (mayfjir) constitute-both their
organization and the individuals-one
national front working for the retrieval of
Palestine and its liberation through armed
struggle.
Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to
liberate Palestine. Thus it is the overall
strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The
Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute
determination and firm resolution to continue
their armed struggle and to work for the
liberation of their country and their return to
it...
Article 10: Commando action constitutes
the nucleus of the Palestinian popular
liberation war. This requires its escalation,
comprehensiveness and mobilization of all the
Palestinian popular and educational efforts and
their organization and involvement in the
armed Palestinian revolution...
Article 13: Arab unity and the liberation of
Palestine are two complementary objectives,
the attainment of either of which facilitates the
attainment of the order...
Article 14: The destiny of the Arab nation, and
indeed Arab existence itself, depends upon the
destiny of the Palestinian cause...The people of
Palestine play the role of the vanguard in the
realization of this sacred national (qawmi)
goal.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from
an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi)
duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and
imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of
Zionism in Palestine...Accordingly the Arab
nation must mobilize all its military, human,
and moral and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian
people in the liberation of Palestine. It must,
particularly in the phase of the armed
Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the
Palestinian people with all possible help, and
material and human support, and make
available to them the means and
opportunities that will enable them to
continue to carry out their leading role in the
armed revolution...
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 8 The phase in their history, through
which tile Palestinian people are now living, is
that of national (watani) struggle for the
liberation of Palestine...On this basis the
Palestinian masses, regardless of whether
they are residing in the national homeland or
in diaspora (mayfjir) constitute-both their
organization and the individuals-one
national front working for the retrieval of
Palestine and its liberation through armed
struggle.
Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to
liberate Palestine. Thus it is the overall
strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The
Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute
determination and firm resolution to continue
their armed struggle and to work for the
liberation of their country and their return to
it...
Article 10: Commando action constitutes
the nucleus of the Palestinian popular
liberation war. This requires its escalation,
comprehensiveness and mobilization of all the
Palestinian popular and educational efforts and
their organization and involvement in the
armed Palestinian revolution...
Article 13: Arab unity and the liberation of
Palestine are two complementary objectives,
the attainment of either of which facilitates the
attainment of the order...
Article 14: The destiny of the Arab nation, and
indeed Arab existence itself, depends upon the
destiny of the Palestinian cause...The people of
Palestine play the role of the vanguard in the
realization of this sacred national (qawmi)
goal.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from
an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi)
duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and
imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of
Zionism in Palestine...Accordingly the Arab
nation must mobilize all its military, human,
and moral and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian
people in the liberation of Palestine. It must,
particularly in the phase of the armed
Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the
Palestinian people with all possible help, and
material and human support, and make
available to them the means and
opportunities that will enable them to
continue to carry out their leading role in the
armed revolution...
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to
liberate Palestine. Thus it is the overall
strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The
Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute
determination and firm resolution to continue
their armed struggle and to work for the
liberation of their country and their return to
it...
Article 10: Commando action constitutes
the nucleus of the Palestinian popular
liberation war. This requires its escalation,
comprehensiveness and mobilization of all the
Palestinian popular and educational efforts and
their organization and involvement in the
armed Palestinian revolution...
Article 13: Arab unity and the liberation of
Palestine are two complementary objectives,
the attainment of either of which facilitates the
attainment of the order...
Article 14: The destiny of the Arab nation, and
indeed Arab existence itself, depends upon the
destiny of the Palestinian cause...The people of
Palestine play the role of the vanguard in the
realization of this sacred national (qawmi)
goal.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from
an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi)
duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and
imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of
Zionism in Palestine...Accordingly the Arab
nation must mobilize all its military, human,
and moral and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian
people in the liberation of Palestine. It must,
particularly in the phase of the armed
Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the
Palestinian people with all possible help, and
material and human support, and make
available to them the means and
opportunities that will enable them to
continue to carry out their leading role in the
armed revolution...
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 10: Commando action constitutes
the nucleus of the Palestinian popular
liberation war. This requires its escalation,
comprehensiveness and mobilization of all the
Palestinian popular and educational efforts and
their organization and involvement in the
armed Palestinian revolution...
Article 13: Arab unity and the liberation of
Palestine are two complementary objectives,
the attainment of either of which facilitates the
attainment of the order...
Article 14: The destiny of the Arab nation, and
indeed Arab existence itself, depends upon the
destiny of the Palestinian cause...The people of
Palestine play the role of the vanguard in the
realization of this sacred national (qawmi)
goal.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from
an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi)
duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and
imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of
Zionism in Palestine...Accordingly the Arab
nation must mobilize all its military, human,
and moral and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian
people in the liberation of Palestine. It must,
particularly in the phase of the armed
Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the
Palestinian people with all possible help, and
material and human support, and make
available to them the means and
opportunities that will enable them to
continue to carry out their leading role in the
armed revolution...
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 13: Arab unity and the liberation of
Palestine are two complementary objectives,
the attainment of either of which facilitates the
attainment of the order...
Article 14: The destiny of the Arab nation, and
indeed Arab existence itself, depends upon the
destiny of the Palestinian cause...The people of
Palestine play the role of the vanguard in the
realization of this sacred national (qawmi)
goal.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from
an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi)
duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and
imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of
Zionism in Palestine...Accordingly the Arab
nation must mobilize all its military, human,
and moral and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian
people in the liberation of Palestine. It must,
particularly in the phase of the armed
Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the
Palestinian people with all possible help, and
material and human support, and make
available to them the means and
opportunities that will enable them to
continue to carry out their leading role in the
armed revolution...
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 15. The liberation of Palestine, from
an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi)
duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and
imperialist aggression against the Arab
homeland, and aims at the elimination of
Zionism in Palestine...Accordingly the Arab
nation must mobilize all its military, human,
and moral and spiritual capabilities to
participate actively with the Palestinian
people in the liberation of Palestine. It must,
particularly in the phase of the armed
Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the
Palestinian people with all possible help, and
material and human support, and make
available to them the means and
opportunities that will enable them to
continue to carry out their leading role in the
armed revolution...
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 17: The liberation of Palestine, from a
human point of view, will restore to the
Palestinian individual his dignity, pride and
freedom...
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 18: The liberation of Palestine, from an
international point of view, is a defensive
action necessitated by the demands of
self-defense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship of
all people, look to freedom-loving,
justice-loving and peace-loving states for
support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine...
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 19: The position of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of the State of Israel
are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage
of time...
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the
Mandate for Palestine and everything that
has been based upon them, are deemed null
and void. Claims of historical or religious ties
of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with
the facts of history and the true conception
of what constitutes statehood. Judaism,
being a religion, is not an independent
nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single
nation with an identity of its own; they are
citizens of the states to which they belong.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 21: The Arab Palestinian people,
expressing themselves by the armed
Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions
which are substitutes for the total liberation
of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming
at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,
or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement
organically associated with international
imperialism and antagonistic to all action for
liberation and to progressive movements in
the world. It is recist and fanatic in its
nature, aggressive, expansionist and colonial
in its aims, and fascist in its methods. Israel is
the instrument of the Zionist movement, and
a geographical base for world imperialism
places strategically in the midst of the Arab
homeland to combat the hopes of the Arab
nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis
peace in the Middle East and the whole
world. Since the liberation of Palestine will
destroy the Zionist and imperialist presence
and will contribute to the establishment of
peace in the Middle East, the Palestinian
people look for the support of all the
progressive and peaceful forces...
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 23: The demands of security and
peace, as well as the demands of right and
justice, require all states to consider Zionism
an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its
existence, and to ban its operations...
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 24: The Palestinian people believe in
the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity, and in the
right of all peoples to exercise them.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 25: For the realization of the goals this
Charter and its principles, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization will perform its role in
the liberation of Palestine in accordance with
the Constitution of this Organization.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 26: The Palestine Liberation
Organization, representative of the
Palestinian revolutionary forces, is
responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's
movement in its struggle-to retrieve its
homeland, liberate and return to it...
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 28: The Palestinian Arab people assert
the genuineness and independence of their
national revolution and reject all forms of
intervention, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 29: The Palestinian people possess the
fundamental and genuine legal right to liberate
and retrieve their homeland. The Palestinian
people determine their attitude towards all
states and forces on the basis of the stands they
adopt vis-a-vis the Palestinian case...
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 30: Fighters and carriers of arms in
the war of liberation are the nucleus of the
popular army which will be the protective
force for the gains of the Palestinian Arab
people.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 31: The Organization shall have a flag,
an oath of allegiance and an anthem. All this
shall be decided upon In accordant with a
special regulation.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 32: Regulations, which shall be known
as the Constitution of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, shall be annexed to this Charter.
It shall lay down the manner in which the
Organization and its organs and institutions,
shall be constituted. . .
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
Article 33: This Charter shall not be
amended save by (vote of) a majority of
two-thirds of the total membership of the
National Congress of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (taken) at a special
session convened for that purpose.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.
(Basic Political Document of Armed Palestinian Resistance
Movement
Leila S. Kadi (ed.), Palestine Research Centre, Beirut, December 1969.