What was the 1974 PLO “Phased Plan” for Israel’s destruction?
The PLO was born with a commitment to the destruction of Israel and in the early days of the organization, they would consider nothing other than that immediate objective. The October 1973 Yom Kippur War convinced the Arabs that they would not be able to destroy Israel through military action within its post-1967 boundaries. Thus they embarked upon a new three-stage strategy for Israel’s destruction, embodied in the Palestine Liberation Organization’s 1974 Political Program, commonly known as the “Phased Plan”, adopted at the 12th Session of the Palestinian National Council, held in Cairo, June 9, 1974.
The plan has three main articles:
- Through the "armed struggle" (i.e., terrorism), to establish an "independent combatant national authority" over any territory that is "liberated" from Israeli rule. (Article 2)
- To continue the struggle against Israel, using the territory of the national authority as a base of operations. (Article 4)
- To provoke an all-out war in which Israel's Arab neighbors destroy it entirely ("liberate all Palestinian territory"). (Article 8)
The Phased Plan remains the basis of PLO actions, even in the era of the Oslo Accords. Speaking on September 1, 1993, just after the announcement of the 1993 Israel-PLO agreement, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat announced on Radio Monte Carlo that the Oslo agreement:
- ...will be a basis for an independent Palestinian state in accordance with the Palestine National Council resolution issued in 1974... The PNC resolution issued in 1974 calls for the establishment of a national authority on any part of Palestinian soil from which Israel withdraws or which is liberated.
In addition to the action plan against Israel, Articles 5-6 of the PLO plan call for a revolution in Jordan to establish a new Jordanian regime which will ally itself with the Palestinian National Authority. Historically, Jordan comprised the bulk of the territory of Palestine, and a majority of its residents are of Palestinian origin. The PLO has never recognized the legitimacy of the Kingdom of Jordan as a state independent of Palestine.
CAIR Gets Involved in Arabic Pledge of Allegiance
Group closely tied to Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas criticizes uproar and apology after school has pledge of allegiance read in Arabic.
First Publish: 3/21/2015, 7:12 PM
Muslims in the West (Illustration)
Reuters
It was supposedly a move celebrating language and diversity, but readingthe pledge of allegiance in Arabic at a US high school sparked a furious backlash in upstate New York given the wave of Islamist Arab terrorism rising worldwide in recent years.
Wednesday's incident at Pine Bush High School, 80 miles (128 kilometers) northwest of New York City, angered students, parents, residents as well as those who lost loved ones in Afghanistan, reports AFP.
The initial plan to celebrate National Foreign Language week was that students would read the daily American pledge of allegiance in a different
language each day.
But when an Arabic-speaking pupil did so, she was reportedly harassed and called a terrorist, according to senior class president Andrew Zink, 18, who approved the reading.
Zink, who stood by his decision, told AFP he had received threats on Twitter. Veterans who live in the area told US media they opposed the pledge being read in any language other than English.
Local newspaper the Times Herald-Record said school superintendent Joan Carbone received complaints from residents who had lost relatives who were fighting Muslim terrorists in Afghanistan - which as it happens is a non-Arab country whose main languages are Pashto and Dari - and from Jewish parents.
Pine Bush Central School District apologized and said that from now on, the pledge of allegiance will be recited only in English.
A statement on its website said the intention had been to celebrate Foreign Language Week and "the many races, cultures and religions that make up this great country and our school district."
"We sincerely apologize to any students, staff or community members who found this activity disrespectful," it said.
Teaching "a culture of hate"
But not all have taken the apology well, with Zink and several others arguing language doesn't necessarily have to do with Islamist ideologies rampant in the Arabic-speaking world, a connection that apparently caused the uproar in the first place.
"Many people were angered about reading, but an equal amount are angered by the apology, so now everyone's mad," Zink said. "America or even American isn't defined in what language you speak in, but the ideasyou believe in."
Zink, who described Pine Bush as predominantly white, claimed the incident showed the small town is "not willing to accept other groups of people."
Sadyia Khalique, a spokeswoman for the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), also criticized the backlash.
"To see the language of Arabic ostracized and being used as a way to target communities or even lead to hate speech is something which is not a goal... of National Language Week," she told AFP.
CAIR noted this was not the first time that Arabic had caused "prejudiced sentiment" in an American high school, after parents complained following a recitation of the pledge of allegiance in Arabic in 2013 in Colorado.
The same year, parents at a high school in Alabama opposed the introduction of Arabic lessons, claiming they would cause students to "learn a 'culture of hate,'" CAIR said.
However, CAIR may not be able to brush off those accusations of teaching "hate" so lightly - back in 2014, Former FBI Counterterrorism expert John Guandolo revealed to Arutz Sheva that he had discovered a connection between CAIR and the Hamas terrorist organization, which has the genocide of all Jews written in its charter.
Guandolo traced how CAIR was established by radical Islamists closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood - of which Hamas is an offshoot - as a means to expand the group's radical Islamist ideology in America through the means of cultural interaction.
During Hamas's latest terror war against Israel in Gaza last summer, a CAIR representative refused to call the group a terrorist organization on TV.
Wednesday's incident at Pine Bush High School, 80 miles (128 kilometers) northwest of New York City, angered students, parents, residents as well as those who lost loved ones in Afghanistan, reports AFP.
The initial plan to celebrate National Foreign Language week was that students would read the daily American pledge of allegiance in a different
language each day.
But when an Arabic-speaking pupil did so, she was reportedly harassed and called a terrorist, according to senior class president Andrew Zink, 18, who approved the reading.
Zink, who stood by his decision, told AFP he had received threats on Twitter. Veterans who live in the area told US media they opposed the pledge being read in any language other than English.
Local newspaper the Times Herald-Record said school superintendent Joan Carbone received complaints from residents who had lost relatives who were fighting Muslim terrorists in Afghanistan - which as it happens is a non-Arab country whose main languages are Pashto and Dari - and from Jewish parents.
Pine Bush Central School District apologized and said that from now on, the pledge of allegiance will be recited only in English.
A statement on its website said the intention had been to celebrate Foreign Language Week and "the many races, cultures and religions that make up this great country and our school district."
"We sincerely apologize to any students, staff or community members who found this activity disrespectful," it said.
Teaching "a culture of hate"
But not all have taken the apology well, with Zink and several others arguing language doesn't necessarily have to do with Islamist ideologies rampant in the Arabic-speaking world, a connection that apparently caused the uproar in the first place.
"Many people were angered about reading, but an equal amount are angered by the apology, so now everyone's mad," Zink said. "America or even American isn't defined in what language you speak in, but the ideasyou believe in."
Zink, who described Pine Bush as predominantly white, claimed the incident showed the small town is "not willing to accept other groups of people."
Sadyia Khalique, a spokeswoman for the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), also criticized the backlash.
"To see the language of Arabic ostracized and being used as a way to target communities or even lead to hate speech is something which is not a goal... of National Language Week," she told AFP.
CAIR noted this was not the first time that Arabic had caused "prejudiced sentiment" in an American high school, after parents complained following a recitation of the pledge of allegiance in Arabic in 2013 in Colorado.
The same year, parents at a high school in Alabama opposed the introduction of Arabic lessons, claiming they would cause students to "learn a 'culture of hate,'" CAIR said.
However, CAIR may not be able to brush off those accusations of teaching "hate" so lightly - back in 2014, Former FBI Counterterrorism expert John Guandolo revealed to Arutz Sheva that he had discovered a connection between CAIR and the Hamas terrorist organization, which has the genocide of all Jews written in its charter.
Guandolo traced how CAIR was established by radical Islamists closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood - of which Hamas is an offshoot - as a means to expand the group's radical Islamist ideology in America through the means of cultural interaction.
During Hamas's latest terror war against Israel in Gaza last summer, a CAIR representative refused to call the group a terrorist organization on TV.
The PLO's Ten Point Plan is Alive and Well
Monday, June 29, 2015 | Tsvi Sadan
For decades Israelis have been conditioned to think that nothing position of the Palestinians to end the conflict is a negotiation tactic aimed at achieving a reasonable compromise in the shape of a two-state solution.
For decades Israelis have been conditioned to think that the uncompromising, all-or-nothing position of the Palestinians to end the conflict is a negotiation tactic aimed at achieving a reasonable compromise in the shape of a two-state solution.
Few, however, imagined that the unyielding Palestinian position is the modern implementation of the Ten Point Plan, or Phased Plan, as it is known in Hebrew.
This plan adopted by the Palestinian National Council in June 1974 is a well thought out program to bring an end to the State of Israel. This plan also violates the UN Charter (cha.1 2,4) requiring that "all Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state."
The Palestinian plan speaks of commitment to armed struggle to liberate Palestinian territory (that includes all of Israel), refusal of any solution that denies the right of refugees and their descendants to return to their original towns and villages, and working with socialist countries and progressives and liberals to bring the Zionist state to its knees.
In a nutshell, this Ten Point Plan is the unwavering Palestinian commitment to the destruction of Israel by any means necessary, including the exploitation of Western values like democracy and human rights as tools for achieving this goal.
From the day it was adopted, no Palestinian leader ever sought to annul it or alter this plan. Yasser Arafat saw the Oslo Accord as part of this plan, rather than a deviation from it. For him, this peace process was a Palestinian Trojan Horse. In a closed meeting with Arab diplomats that took place 1996, he told them: "We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare … Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews ... We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem."
Israelis, let alone the world, refuse to believe it. No matter how forthcoming the Palestinians are about their true goals, many still maintain that their statements amount to some kind of negotiation "trash talk."
Unfortunately for all, that is not the case. Just a few days ago Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi exposed the new position paper of chief Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat, who called for rigorous implementation of the Ten Point Plan.
In Erekat's list of recommendations to "president" Mahmoud Abbas, one can find reaffirmation of the right of the refugees and their descendants to return to villages in Israel, fighting Israel by all means (including joining international bodies for the purpose of delegitimizing Israel), and full support for Palestinian terror organizations, among other things.
Dahoah-Halevi demonstrated how Erekat's recommendations express reaffirmation of the Ten Point Plan that is not looking for any political compromise. Accordingly, forcing Israel back to its 1967 borders is an important phase that will put the Palestinians in better position to fulfil their long term goal of creating a Palestinian state in place of Israel.
Those who believe that two states is a viable solution should have their faith checked in the face of this latest evidence that the Palestinians remain committed to their destructive plan.
Palestine Liberation Organization:
Ten Point Plan
(June 8, 1974)
Adopted at the 12th Session of the Palestine National Council
Cairo, 8 June 1974
The Palestine National Council,
On the basis of the Palestine National Charter and the Political Program drawn up at the eleventh session, held from 6-12 January 1973; and from its belief that it is impossible for a permanent and just peace to be established in the area unless our Palestinian people recover from all their national rights and, first and foremost, their rights to return and to self-determination on the whole of the soil of their homeland; and in the light of a study of the new political circumstances that have come into existence in the period between the Council’s last and present sessions, resolves the following:
1. To reaffirm the Palestine Liberation Organization’s previous attitude to Resolution 242, which obliterates the national right of our people and deals with the cause of our people as a problem of refugees. The Council therefore refuses to have anything to do with this resolution at any level, Arab or international, including the Geneva Conference.
2. The Palestine Liberation Organization will employ all means, and first and foremost armed struggle, to liberate Palestinian territory and to establish the independent combatant national authority for the people over every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated. This will require further changes being effected in the balance of power in favor of our people and their struggle.
3. The Liberation Organization will struggle against any proposal for a Palestinian entity the price of which is recognition, peace, secure frontiers, renunciation of national rights, and the deprival of our people of their right to return and their right to self-determination on the soil of their homeland.
4. Any step taken towards liberation is a step towards the realization of the Liberation Organization’s strategy of establishing the democratic Palestinian State specified in the resolutions of the previous Palestinian National Councils.
5. Struggle along with the Jordanian national forces to establish a Jordanian-Palestinian national front whose aim will be to set up in Jordan a democratic national authority in close contact with the Palestinian entity that is established through the struggle.
6. The Liberation Organization will struggle to establish unity in struggle between the two peoples and between all the forces of the Arab liberation movement that are in agreement on this program.
7. In the light of this program, the Liberation Organization will struggle to strengthen national unity and to raise it to the level where it will be able to perform its national duties and tasks.
8. Once it is established, the Palestinian national authority will strive to achieve a union of the confrontation countries, with the aim of completing the liberation of all Palestinian territory, and as a step along the road to comprehensive Arab unity.
9. The Liberation Organization will strive to strengthen its solidarity with the socialist countries, and with the forces of liberation and progress throughout the world, with the aim of frustrating all the schemes of Zionism, reaction and imperialism.
10. In light of this program, the leadership of the revolution will determine the tactics which will serve and make possible the realization of thee objectives.
The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization will make every effort to implement this program, and should a situation arise affecting the destiny and the future of the Palestinian people, the National Assembly will be convened in extraordinary session.
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