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Nations United Against Israel

Blair urges world to support PLO/PA


By Stan Goodenough
December 12, 2007

The Palestine Liberation Organization remains committed - in its charter, in its statements, and by its actions - to erasing Jewish Israel from the Islamic Middle East, and the gentile nations should pour $5.6 billion in aid into its coffers in order to help get them established so they can have a fighting chance at success.

Quartet envoy to the region, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Tuesday pleaded with the international community to "come up with the money" needed to help develop the as yet non-existent (thank God-Ed) State of Palestine, according to The Jerusalem Post.

"[I]f we are not prepared to back the Palestinians now, then we are not prepared to give them a chance," Blair said.

Under the "Oslo Agreement" signed between the PLO and Israel in 1993, the PLO agreed to amend its charter by removing all references calling for the use of violence against Israel in the "Palestinians" struggle for an independent homeland.

Despite a series of theatrical moves intended to hoodwink the international community into believing that it had abided by this commitment, the PLO Charter remains unchanged to this day.

Describing "Palestine" as the land "with the boundaries it had during the British Mandate" - therefore including all of the State of Israel - as "an indivisible territorial unit," it states in 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 an armed popular revolution for the liberation of their country [sic] and their return to it."

Article 10 says that "Commando action constitutes the nucleus of the Palestinian popular liberation war. This requires its escalation, comprehensiveness, and the mobilization of all the Palestinian popular and educational efforts and their organization and involvement in the armed Palestinian revolution."

Article 15 states that "The liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression against the Arab homeland, and aims at the liquidation of the Zionist presence in Palestine."

Article 19: "The [United Nation's] partition 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."

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."

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