A P.L.O. NON-COMPLIANCE BILL OF PARTICULARS

The PLO’s Misuse of International Donations

• “In August 1994, $13 million in
  international contributions that were supposed to
  go for humanitarian projects in Gaza and Jericho
  was diverted to the PLO military and propaganda
  activities in Lebanon.”
• “On December 31, 1994, the PLO’s Palestinian
  Authority took $1 million in international
  donations and gave it to the PLO ‘Martyrs Fund’
  in Amman.”
• “In 1994, Britain’s Overseas Development
  Agency sent $5 million to pay the salaries of
  9,000 PLO policemen, with specific instructions
  that none of the money be given to Arafat’s
  plainclothes ‘preventative security forces’ —
  yet more than $500,000 was given to those forces
  prompting a British government
  investigation.”
• “Norway’s attorney general and the U.N.
  oversight committee are investigating the
  disappearance of a $100,000 Norwegian grant for a
  PLO agricultural project.”
• “A study in 1993 by Great Britain’s
  National Criminal Intelligence Service concluded
  that the PLO has worldwide assets of $7-10
  billion and an annual income of $1.5-2
  billion.”

The PLO’s Failure to Disarm Terrorists

• “According to Israeli media reports, the PLO
  police in Gaza have confiscated just 11 of the
  more than 26,000 illegal weapons that are in the
  hands of private citizens.”
• On 20 May 1995, the New York Times
  reported with respect to the 11 May
  “deadline” for Palestinian Arabs to
  hand in unlicensed weapons:

“The deadline came and went without
any visible response by the Palestinian
security forces. There have been no sweeps of
neighborhoods to find unlicensed weapons or
to disarm Muslim militants, and Palestinians
who missed the deadline for licensing their
guns have not been punished.”

The PLO’s Failure to Extradite Terrorists

• The PLO has refused to turn over to Israel the
  half-dozen or so terrorists it has asked be
  extradited from PA-controlled territory. PLO
  Police Chief Nasser Yussef actually said that his
  forces “will refuse to hand over to Israel
  alleged perpetrators of operations against the
  Jewish State who seek refuge in the self-rule
  areas.” No PLO terrorists involved in the
  murder of Americans have been surrendered to the
  U.S. government.

Collaboration Between the PLO and Hamas

• “In early 1994, Muin Shreim, first counselor
  to the PLO’s Mission to the U.N., had this to say
  about the PLO-Hamas relationship: ‘We don’t
  disagree with [Hamas]. Our tactics vary; our
  schedules might vary….There is a local
  cooperation between Fatah and Hamas.'”
• In April 1995, Arafat urged Hamas to refrain from
  launching attacks “from areas under his
  political control,” implying that he had no
  objection to attacks against Israelis from areas not
  under his control.

The PLO’s Failure to Condemn Terrorism

• “During the first year of Gaza-Jericho,
  there were at least 184 Arab terrorist attacks
  (leaving 102 dead and 308 injured). After the
  January 1995, massacre of 21 Israelis in Beit
  Lid, PLO officials quoted Arafat as having said
  that ‘the attack was a criminal one that
  threatens the entire peace process’ and ‘harmed
  the prospective release of prisoners and the
  transfer of authority [to Arafat].'”

The PLO’s Failure to Change Its Covenant

• No action has been taken even to attempt to
  change the PLO Covenant’s explicit call for the
  destruction of the State of Israel. This would
  require the agreement of a two-thirds majority of
  the total membership of the PLO National Council,
  currently numbering 480.

The PLO’s Failure to Urge Arabs to Reject
Terrorism

• Arafat has also publicly praised the violent
  Palestinian Arab Intifada saying that it
  must “continue, continue, continue.”
  Indeed, he declared on the very same day that
  he received the Nobel Peace Prize that
  “the Intifada will continue until
  Palestine is redeemed with blood and fire.”

The PLO’s Failure to Respect Israeli
Sovereignty

• The PLO continues to use stationary featuring a
  map which labels all of Israel as
  “Palestine.” The stationary is headed
  “State of Palestine,” and Arafat refers
  to himself as “President of Palestine.”

The PLO’s Failure to Refrain from Anti-Israeli
Propaganda

• A speech by Arafat, read by PLO Justice Minister
  Freigh Abu Medein at a 12 May, 1995 rally in Gaza
  (and broadcast two days later on the PLO’s Voice
  of Palestine Radio), said: “I say once more
  that Israel shall remain the principal enemy of
  the Palestinian people not only for the moment
  but also in the future. On this basis we should
  close our ranks to create a national unity.”
• According to the 16 June 1995 Jerusalem Post,
  Abu Medein announced the day before that
  “The Palestinian Authority will uphold a
  Jordanian law permitting anyone who sells land to
  Jews to be killed.”

(1) Largely drawn from the Zionist
Organization of America’s Report on PLO Compliance — May
4, 1994- May 4, 1995.