Title IV of Public Law 104-99 or the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act, passed by the US Congress on February 12, 1996 stipulates that:
“It is the sense of Congress… the PLO… must do far more to demonstrate an irrevocable denunciation of terrorism… and in particular it must:
- submit to the Palestine National Council for formal approval the necessary changes to those articles of the Palestinain National Covenant which call for Israel’s destruction
- make greater efforts to preempt acts of terror…
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- cease all anti-Israel rhetoric…
- confiscate all unlicensed weapons…”