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:

  1. 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
  2. make greater efforts to preempt acts of terror…
  3. cease all anti-Israel rhetoric…
  4. confiscate all unlicensed weapons…”