Article 1: Palestine is the homeland
of the Palestinian Arab people and an integral
part of the great Arab homeland, and the people
of Palestine is a part of the Arab nation.
Article 2: Palestine with its boundaries
that existed at the line of the British Mandate
is an indivisible territorial unit.
Article 3: The Palestinian Arab
people possesses the legal right to its home
land, and, when the liberation of its home
land is completed, it will exercise selfdetermination
solely according to its own will and choice.
Article 4:The Palestinian identity
is an innate, persistent characteristic that
does not disappear, and it is transferred
from fathers to sons. The Zionist occupation,
and the dispersal of the Palestinian Arab
people as a result of the disasters which
befell them, do not deprive it of its Palestinian
identity and affiliation and do not nullify
them.
Article 5:The Palestinians are
the Arab nationals who were living permanently
in Palestine until 1947, whether they were
expelled from there or remained. Anyone born
to a Palestinian Arab father after that, within
Palestine or outside it, is a Palestinian.
Article 6:Jews who were living
permanently in Palestine until the beginning
of the Zionist invasion will be considered
Palestinians.
Article 7:The Palestinian affiliation
and the "material, spiritual and historical
tie with Palestine are indisputable realities.
The upbringing of the Palestinian individual
in an Arab and revolutionary fashion, the
undertaking of all means of forging consciousness
and training the Palestinian, in order to
acquaint him profoundly with his homeland,
spiritually and material, and preparing him
for the conflict and the armed struggle, as
well as for the sacrifice of his wealth and
his life to restore his homeland, until the
liberation-all this is a national duty.
Article 8:The phase in their history,
through which the Palestinian people are now
living, is that of national struggle for the
liberation of Palestine. Thus, the conflicts
among the Palestinian national forces are
secondary, and should be ended for the sake
of the basic conflict that exists between
the forces of Zionism and of imperialism on
the one hand, and the Palestinian Arab people
on the other. On this basis the Palestinian
masses, regardless of whether they are residing
in the national home land or in diaspora constituteboth
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 and is therefore
a strategy and not tactics. The Palestinian
Arab people affirms its absolute resolution
and abiding determination to pursue the armed
struggle and to work for an armed popular
revolution, to liberate its homeland and return
to it to maintain its right to a natural life
in it, and to exercise its right of selfdetermination
in it and sovereignty over it.
Article 10:Fedayeen action forms
the nucleus of the popular Palestinian war
of liberation. This demands its promotion,
extension and protection, and the mobilization
of all the mass and scientific capacities
of the Palestinians, their organization and
involvement in the armed Palestinian revolution,
and cohesion in the national struggle among
the various groups of the people of Palestine,
and between them and the Arab masses, to guarantee
the continuation of the revolution, its advancement
and victory.
Article 11:The Palestinians will
have three mottoes: national unity, national
mobilization and liberation.
Article 12:The Palestinian people
believe in Arab unity. In order to contribute
their share toward the attainment of that
belief, however, they must, at the present
stage of their struggle, safeguard their Palestinian
identity and develop their consciousness of
that identity, and oppose any plan that may
dissolve or impair it.
Article 13:Arab unity and the liberation
of Palestine are two complementary aims. Each
one paves the way for realization of the other.
Arab unity leads to the liberation of Palestine,
and the liberation of Palestine leads to Arab
unity. Working for both goes handinhand.
Article 14:The destiny of the Arab
nation, indeed Arab existence, depends upon
the destiny of the Palestinian cause. The
endeavor and effort of the Arab nation to
liberate Palestine follows from this connection.
The people of Palestine assumes its vanguard
role in realizing this sacred national aim.
Article 15:The liberation of Palestine,
from an Arab viewpoint, is a national duty
to repulse the Zionist, imperialist invasion
from the great Arab homelands and to eliminate
the Zionist presence front Palestine. Its
full responsibilities fall upon the Arab nation,
peoples and governments, with the Palestinian
Arab people at their head.
For this purpose, the Arab nation must
mobilize all its military, human, material
and spiritual capacities to participate actively
with the people of Palestine in the liberation
of Palestine. They must, especially in the
present stage of armed Palestinian revolution,
grant and offer the people of Palestine all
possible help and every material and human
support, and afford it every sure means and
opportunity enabling it to continue to assume
its vanguard role in pursuing its armed revolution
until the liberation of its homeland.
Article 16:The liberation of Palestine,
from a spiritual viewpoint, will provide an
atmosphere of tranquility and peace for the
Holy Land, in the shade of which all the holy
places will be safeguarded, and freedom of
worship and visitation to all will be guaranteed,
without distinction or discrimination of race,
color, language or religion. For this reason,
the people of Palestine looks to the support
of all the spiritual forces in the world.
Article 17:The liberation of Palestine,
from a human viewpoint, will restore
to the Palestinian his dignity, glory and
freedom. For this, the Palestinian Arab people
looks to the support of those in the world
who believe in the dignity and freedom of
man.
Article 18:The liberation of Palestine,
from an international point of view, is a
defensive action necessitated by the demands
of selfdefense. Accordingly, the Palestinian
people, desirous as they are of the friendship
of all people, looks to freedomloving,
justiceloving and peaceloving states
for support in order to restore their legitimate
rights in Palestine, to reestablish peace
and security in the country, and to enable
its people to exercise national sovereignty
and freedom.
Article 19:The partitioning of
Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of
Israel are fundamentally null and void, whatever
time has elapsed, because they were contrary
to the wish of the people of Palestine and
its natural right to its homeland, and contradict
the principles embodied in the Charter of
the United Nations, the first of which is
the right of selfdetermination.
Article 20:The Balfour Declaration,
the Mandate Document, and everything based
upon them are deemed null and void. The claim
of historical or religious ties between Jews
and Palestine does not tally with historical
realities, nor with the constituents of statehood
in their true sense. Judaism, in its character
as a religion, is not a nationality with an
independent existence. Likewise, the Jews
are not one people with an independent identity.
They are rather citizens of the states to
which they belong.
Article 21:The Palestinian Arab
people, in expressing itself through the armed
Palestinian revolution, rejects every solution
that is a substitute for a complete liberation
of Palestine, and rejects all plans that aim
at the settlement of the Palestine issue or
its internationalization.
Article 22:Zionism is a political
movement organically related to world imperialism
and hostile to all movements of liberation
and progress in the world. It is a racist
and fascist movement in its formation; aggressive,
expansionist and colonialist in its aims,
and fascist and Nazi in its methods. Israel
is the tool of the Zionist movement and a
human and geographical base for world imperialism.
It is a concentration and jumpingoff
point for imperialism in the heart of the
Arab homeland, to strike at the hopes of the
Arab nation for liberation, unity and progress.
Israel is a constant threat to peace in
the Middle East and the entire world. Since
the liberation of Palestine will destroy the
Zionist and imperialist presence and bring
about the stabilization of peace in the Middle
East, the people of Palestine looks to the
support of all liberal men of the world and
all the forces of good, progress and peace;
and implores all of them, regardless of their
different leanings and orientations, to offer
all help and support to the people of Palestine
in its just and legal struggle to liberate
its homeland.
Article 23:The demands of security
and peace and the requirements of truth and
justice oblige all states that preserve friendly
relations among peoples and maintain the loyalty
of citizens to their homelands to consider
Zionism an illegitimate movement and to prohibit
its existence and activity.
Article 24:The Palestinian Arab
people believes in the principles of justice,
freedom, sovereignty, selfdetermination,
human dignity and the right of peoples to
exercise them.
Article 25:For the realization
of the goals of this Charter and its principles,
the Palestine 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, which represents the forces
of the Palestinian revolution, is responsible
for the movement of the Palestinian Arab people
in its struggle to restore its homeland, liberate
it, return to it and exercise the right of
selfdetermination in it. This responsibility
extends to all military, political and financial
matters, and all else that the Palestine issue
requires in the Arab and international spheres.
Article 27:The Palestine Liberation
Organization will cooperate with all Arab
states, each according to its capacities,
and will maintain neutrality in their mutual
relations in the light of and on the basis
of, requirements of the battle of liberation,
and will not interfere in the internal affairs
of any Arab state.
Article 28:The Palestinian Arab
people insists upon the originality and independence
of its national revolution, and rejects every
manner of interference, trusteeship and subordination.
Article 29:The Palestinian Arab
people possesses the fundamental and genuine
right in liberating and restoring its homeland
and will define its position with reference
to all states and powers on the basis of their
positions with reference to the issue of Palestine
and the extent of their support for the Palestinian
Arab people in its revolution to realize its
aims.
Article 30:The fighters and bearers
of arms in the battle of liberation are the
nucleus of the popular army, which will be
the protecting arm of 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
accordance with special regulation.
Article 32:To this covenant is
attached a law known as the fundamental law
of the Palestine Liberation Organization,
in which is determined the manner of the organization's
formation, its committees, its institutions,
the special functions of every one of them
and all the requisite duties associated with
them in accordance with this covenant.
Article 33:This Chapter shall not
be amended save by a vote of twothirds
of the total membership of the National Congress
of the Palestine Liberation Organization [taken]
at a special session convened for that purpose.