JNewsWire.com -- The US House of Representatives last month passed a bill in which the Palestine Liberation Organization was recognized as a terrorist entity and its members as being “engaged in terrorist activity.”

The PLO was for decades acknowledged to be the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization, before being legitimized by Israel and the West at the White House Rose Garden in 1993.

Affirming its continued affinity for anti-Israel terror, the PLO-controlled Palestinian Authority broadcast on its television network at the weekend a sermon reminding the Palestinian Arabs that their goal remains the annihilation of the Jewish state.

PLO = terrorist entity

House Bill H.R. 418 was submitted on January 26, 2005 in order to:

Establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards;
Prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States;
Unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal;
Ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence.
Section 103 of that act is titled “Inadmissibility Due to Terrorist and Terrorist-Related Activity.”

Article a.IX of Section 103 states:

“An alien who is an officer, official, representative, or spokesman of the Palestine Liberation Organization is considered, for purposes of this Act, to be engaged in a terrorist activity.”

Does that mean Abbas is a terrorist?

One of the more potentially controversial aspects of this law is whether or not it legally precludes PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s visiting Washington.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday extended an invitation from President George W. Bush for Abbas to join him for talks at the White House in the near future.

In addition to heading the PLO, Abbas is also “president” of the Palestinian Authority and leader of the PLO-dominating Fatah faction, which he founded together with Yasser Arafat.

The Palestinian Authority is a political entity created by the 1993 “Oslo Accords” and controlled by the PLO terrorist organization.

Ultimate ‘Palestinian’ goal

Last week, the PLO/PA demonstrated that Congress’s view of it was not unjustified.

On Friday, the official PA-controlled television station broadcast an Islamic sermon in which senior religious figure Ibrahim Mudyris reminded his listeners that the ultimate goal for the Palestinian Arabs remained the destruction of the Jewish state.

“Our approval to return to the 1967 borders is not a concession” of our “right” to eventually take over all of biblical Israel, Mudyris said.

He taught that it might be possible “to use diplomacy in order to return to the 1967 borders, but we shall not be able to use diplomacy in order to return to the 1948 borders.”

Supplanting the Jewish state with a Muslim one would require military conquest, the cleric suggested.

The sermon was typical of the myriad examples of the PLO’s unchanged approval of anti-Jewish terrorism as an overall strategy.

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