The Phased Plan - The Peace FAQ

The Phased Plan, Piece by Piece, The Piece Process

Frequently Asked Questions:

● What is the Phased Plan?

● Since the Oslo agreements has the PLO redirected its focus from the
'Phased Plan' to the search for a permanent negotiated solution?
● Aren't you misinterpreting these PLO statements? They aren't calling
for the destruction of Israel.

What is the Phased Plan?

● "Since the decision of the Palestinian National Council at its 12th

meeting in 1974, the PLO has adopted the political solution of
establishing a National Authority over any territory from which the
occupation withdraws."

- Yassir Arafat, in the Palestinian Arab newspaper Al Ayyam,

January 1, 1998

● "Prior to the 1974 meeting, the PLO's position was that it would
never accept anything but the immediate destruction of Israel. At the
1974 meeting, the PLO decided to seek Israel's destruction in
phases, by first establishing a small PLO state, then later seeking to
conquer the rest of Israel. Point #2 of its 10-point 1974 platform
declared that the PLO should create a 'national, independent fighting
authority on every part of the Palestinian land to be liberated.' Point
#8 explains that 'the Palestinian national entity, after it comes into
existence,' will seek 'to complete the liberation of the entire
Palestinian soil.'" (Emphasis added.)

- Zionist Organization of America, in a release issued on 8

January 1998

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Since the Oslo agreements has the PLO redirected its focus from
the 'Phased Plan' to the search for a permanent negotiated
solution?

● Chairman Arafat habitually invokes the June 8, 1974 resolution of the

Palestinian National Council [PNC], known as the "Phased Plan" for
Israel's destruction. The decision contains two key elements: first, to
create a Palestinian state on any territory vacated by Israel and
second, to use that state as a base for mobilizing a general Arab
assault on Israel (paragraph 8 of the resolution).]

● Interview on Egyptian Orbit TV, April 18, 1998:

Question: Were you under pressure from the Arab states then?
Arafat: No. In 1974, at the Palestinian National Council meeting in
Cairo, we passed the decision to establish national Palestinian rule
over any part of the land of Palestine which is liberated."

● Interview, Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, on the occasion of Fatah day,

January 1, 1998:
Question: Have we made a mistake by entering the battle over a
settlement, starting with Madrid, through Washington and until Oslo?
Arafat: Since the decision of the Palestinian National Council at its
12th meeting in 1974 [known as the Phased Plan for Israel's
destruction], the PLO has adopted the political solution of
establishing a National Authority over any territory from which the
occupation withdraws. At other PNC meetings we developed this
position, until the one held in Algiers in 1988, in which the
declaration of independence and the peace initiative were
ratified. . . ."

● Such statements -- of which there are innumerable other examples

(including infamous remarks by Arafat to Jordanian and Egyptian
media on the very day he signed the Oslo accords in which he called
those accords part of the Plan of Phases) -- bespeak cynicism:
Palestinian participation in the "peace process" as nothing more than
a continuation of the war of liberation of "Palestine" through other
means. They illustrate once again the attitudes towards Israel being
inculcated in the Palestinian Arab population by their leaders, namely
a predisposition for war, not peaceful coexistence.

- Center for Security Policy, 12 January 1998

Aren't you misinterpreting these PLO statements? They aren't

calling for the destruction of Israel.

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● "The struggle will continue until all of Palestine is liberated."

- Yassir Arafat, in a radio address in November 1995

● "Within five years we will have 6 to 7 million Arabs living on the West
Bank and in Jerusalem....We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and
establish a Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews
by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want
to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews....We Palestinians will
take over everything, including all of Jerusalem."

- Yassir Arafat, Stockholm, 30 January, 1996, as reported by an

attendee of the closed meeting, and printed in the Washington
Times, March 3, 1996, by Cal Thomas

● "The Oslo accord was a preface for the Palestinian Authority and the
Palestinian Authority will be a preface for the Palestinian state which,
in its turn, will be a preface for the liberation of the entire Palestinian
land." (Emphasis added.)

- Abdul Asis Shaheen, Arafat's Minister of Supplies in the official

Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on 4 January
1998

● The newly official map of "Palestine" issued by the Palestine

Authority (PA) shows the State of Palestine as comprising all of the
West Bank (Judea/Samaria), all of Gaza, all of the State of Israel and
a slice of the Kingdom of Jordan. Additionally, it excludes any
reference to a Jewish population, and lists holy sites of Christians and
Muslims only. The official cartographer, Khalil Tufakji, has been
commissioned by the PA to design and to locate a proposed Capitol
Building, which he has now drawn to be located on the Mount of
Olives in Jerusalem, on top of an ancient Jewish cemetery.

On September 1, 1993, Yasser Arafat reaffirmed that the Oslo

Accords are an intrinsic part of the PLO's 1974 phased plan for
Israel's destruction: "The agreement will be a basis for an
independent Palestinian state in accordance with the Palestinian
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..." Later, on May 29, 1994, Rashid Abu Shbak, a senior
PA security official, remarked: "The light which has shone over Gaza
and Jericho will also reach the Negev and the Galilee."

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- Louis Rene Beres

Professor of International Law
Department of Political Science
Purdue University

● "Our enemy is a lowly enemy. The Palestinian people know there is a

state that was established through coercion and it must be
destroyed. This is the Palestinian way."

- Farouk Qaddumi, head of the P.L.O.'s Political Department, in a

speech at a ceremony marking the closing of the P.L.O.'s radio
station in Algiers (Reuters, 10 August 1994; Yediot Aharonot, 10
August 1994)

● "Our war with Israel and the Jews has not ended and will not end
until the establishment of a Palestinian state on the entire land of
Palestine."

- PA Legislative Council member Sa'adi Al-Karnaz (PA Television,

Dec 2)

● "We are certain that Allah will destroy the State of Israel, either
through natural disasters, such as an earthquake, or at the hands of
the Muslims, or both."

- Sheikh Hamed Bitawi, head of PA's Shar'ia law of appeals, Nablus

(Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, Jul 27, 1997)

● "According to the Phased Plan, we will establish a Palestinian state on

any part of Palestine that the enemy will retreat from. The
Palestinian state will be a stage in our prolonged struggle for the
liberation of Palestine on all of its territories."

- Abu Iyad, Arafat' s second-in-command , 1988

● "After the Palestinian state wins recognition from most of the nations
of the world, as expected, the Israeli presence on Palestinian lands
will become illegal and we will fight this with weapons. The battle
against the Israeli forces is a right reserved to us."

- Farouk Radoumi, head of the PLO's diplomatic desk, in PA

newspaper, AL HAYAT AL-JADEEDA, October 15,l998

● "This is Palestine from the (Jordan) river to the Mediterranean sea,

from Rosh Hanikra to Rafah (in Gaza) . The gap between Palestinian
expectations and the Israeli conspiracy will inevitably lead to a

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collision."

- "Our Position" issued by Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the PLO

in PA newspaper AL HAYAT AL-JADEEDA, Dec.19, 1998

● "...Both east and west Jerusalem are waqf . . . not only Jerusalem
but ratner all of Palestine is Islamic waqf...from a religious
standpoint, it is not accepted that waqf be owned by non-Muslims . "
- Sheik Ekrima Sabri, Arafat' s appointed Mufti of Jerusalem,
interview by IMRA, June 10, 1998.

● "The Land of Muslim Palestine is a single unit which cannot be

divided . There is no difference between Haifa and Shechem
(Nablus) , between Lod and Ramallah, and between Jerusalem and
Nazareth . . . the land of Palestine is sacred waqf land for the benefit
of all Muslims, east and west. No one has the right to divide it or give
up any of it. The liberation of Palestine is obligatory for all the
Islamic nations and not only for the Palestinian nation."

- Prayer sermon broadcast live on the PA radio station, April 30,

1999

● In my view, Arafat and the Palestinians are today in favour of a

Palestinian mini-State because they think that, in the long run, this
will mean the destruction of Israel.

- Colonel Qaddafi, La Stammpa, 21 November 1976

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