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{{Short description|Plan drawn up by the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Yom Kippur War}}

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== Palestinian reaction ==

The Ten Point Program was rejected by the more radical hard-line factions of the PLO, which anticipatedwere mainly concerned that the Program wouldcould potentially turn into a surrenderpeace agreement towith Israel. They formed the [[Rejectionist Front]] and vowed to continue the armed struggle to eliminate [[Israel]]. The factions that joined the Rejectionist Front included the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP), the second largest faction in the PLO, after Fatah. These factions would act independently of the PLO over the following years. Suspicion between the Arafat-led mainstream and the more hard-line factions, inside and outside the PLO, have continued to dominate the inner workings of the organization ever since, often resulting in paralysis or conflicting courses of action.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} A temporary closing of ranks came in 1977, as Palestinian factions joined with hard-line Arab governments in the [[Steadfastness and Confrontation Front]] to condemn Egyptian attempts to reach a separate peace with Israel, which eventually resulting in the 1979 [[Camp David Accords]].{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

== Israel's reaction ==

Israel called the Program the ''"PLO's Step/stage Program"'' or ''"PLO's Phased Plan"'' (''Tokhnit HaSHlavim'' or ''Torat HaSHlavim''), which it regarded as a dangerous policy, mainly because it implied that any future compromise agreement between Israel and the Palestinians would not be honored by the PLO. It raised the fear among Israelis that the Palestinians may exploit future Israeli territorial compromises to "improve positions" for attacking Israel. {{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

Over the years, negotiations took place between Israel and the PLO and other Palestinian leaders, while there was a strong concern among large parts of the Israeli public and the Israeli leadership that the negotiations were not sincere, and that the Palestinians' willingness to compromise was just a smoke-screen for implementing the Ten Point Program. {{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

When the [[Oslo Accords]] were signed, many Israeli right-wing politicians openly claimed that this was part of the ploy to implement the Ten Point Program.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nfc.co.il/archive/003-D-6200-00.html?tag=23-15-32 |title=News1 &#124; מבט פלשתיני לפתרון הסכסוך: היעדים המוצהרים של הרשות הפלשתינית|trans-title=A Palestinian perspective on resolving the conflict: The stated goals of the Palestinian Authority|first=יהונתן|last=דחוח-הלוי|website=Nfc.co.il |date=2012-10-30 |accessdate=2016-11-19}}<|archive-date=2016-11-20|archive-url=https:/ref><!/web.archive.org/web/20161120150617/http://www.nfc.co.il/archive/003-D- Date, Hebrew title, and translated title would be very useful on this reference6200-00.html?tag=23-15-32}}</ref> Some of them based this claim on the fact that only 12 days before the signing of the Oslo Accords (September 13, 1993), a pre-recorded speech directed towards the Palestinian people by Arafat himself was broadcast on Jordanian radio, in which Arafat made the following statement about the Oslo agreement:

{{blockquote|The [[theForeign agreement]Affairs willMinister beof aIsrael|Israeli basisMinistry forof anForeign independentAffairs]] Palestinianhas statenoted in accordance withthat the Palestinian Nationalleadership Councilasserted resolution issued in 1974... The PNC resolution issued in 1974 calls forthat the establishmentOslo ofAccord a national authority on anyis part of Palestinianthe soilPLO's from1974 whichPhased IsraelPlan withdrawsfor or which isIsrael's liberateddestruction.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web |url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Archive/Peace+Process/1996/INCITEMENT%20TO%20VIOLENCE%20AGAINST%20ISRAEL%20BY%20LEADERSHI |title=INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE AGAINST ISRAEL BY LEADERSHIP OF PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY - 27-Nov-96 |website=www.mfa.gov.il |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070622142512/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Archive/Peace+Process/1996/INCITEMENT%20TO%20VIOLENCE%20AGAINST%20ISRAEL%20BY%20LEADERSHI |archive-date=22 June 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>}}

The [[Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel|Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] has regarded that the Palestinian leadership asserted that the Oslo Accord is part of the PLO's 1974 Phased Plan for Israel's destruction.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

The status of PLO's Phased Plan nowadays is unclear. The Plan was never officially canceled, but in general, the Palestinian leadership has stopped referring to it since the late 1980s. Recently, however, several statements made by PLO officials on the subject indicate that the Phased Plan has not been abandoned – most notably the statement of the PLO ambassador to Lebanon which stated in an interview that the "two-state solution will lead to the collapse of Israel".<ref>{{cite web |author=www.memri.org |url=http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3297.htm |title=Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki: Two-State Solution Will Lead to the Collapse of Israel |website=Memri.org |date= |accessdate=2016-11-19}}</ref>

Nowadays there is a debate within Israel on whether the Phased Plan still represents the thinking and official policy of certain factions within the Palestinian leadership and of the Palestinian people and whether the Palestinian public and leadership still aim to ultimately take control over the entire region of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] or whether Palestinian territorial claims apply only to the [[West Bank]] (including [[East Jerusalem]]) and the [[Gaza Strip]].<ref>{{cite webnews |url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3344810,00.html |title=ynet מה עושים כשהמודיעין סותר את עצמו? - חדשות |websitenewspaper=Ynet.co.il |date=2014-09-17 |accessdate=2016-11-19|last1=ארי |first1=יוסי בן }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://reut-institute.org/he/Publication.aspx?PublicationId=113 |title=תוכנית השלבים |language=he |trans-title=Phased Plan |access-date=2016-11-20 |archive-date=2016-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120085129/http://reut-institute.org/he/Publication.aspx?PublicationId=113 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]]

* [[PLO]]

* [[Salami tactics]]

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