Summary

In the Palestine National Council’s Ten-Point Program of 8 June 1974, the first among “all means” the Palestine Liberation Organization will employ to liberate Palestinian territory and establish an independent combatant national authority over every part of it that is liberated (PLO Interim Political Program (Ten-Point Program) (8 June 1974), lines 60-64 approx.).

Details

  • Point 2 ranks the means: “all means, and first and foremost armed struggle”, directed both to liberation and to establishing the national authority on liberated territory, and requiring further changes in the balance of power in favour of the Palestinian people and their struggle (lines 60-64 approx.).
  • Point 4 subordinates steps taken through that struggle to the end: any step towards liberation is a step towards the democratic Palestinian State of the previous Councils’ resolutions (lines 72-75 approx.).
  • Point 10 leaves the tactics serving these objectives to the leadership of the revolution (lines 96-98 approx.).

PLO Interim Political Program (Ten-Point Program) (8 June 1974), Palestine Liberation Organization, Secular Democratic State