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'''PLO's Ten Point Program''' (in [[Arabic]]: برنامج النقاط العشر), is the plan accepted by the [[Palestinian National Council]] (PNC), the legislative body of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO), at its 12th meeting held in Cairo on 8 June 1974.

The Program called for the establishment of a national authority "over every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated" with the aim of "completing the liberation of all Palestinian territory". The program implied that the liberation of Palestine may be partial (at least, at some stage), and though it emphasized armed struggle, it did not exclude other means. This allowed the PLO to engage in diplomatic channels, and provided validation for future compromises made by the Palestinian leadership.

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== Palestinian reaction to PLO's Ten Point Program ==

The Ten Point Program metwas withrejected oppositionby frommore otherradical hardline factions, such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ([[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine|PFLP]] (PFLP), which fought to eliminate Israel. As a result, the Ten Point Program led to several radical PLO factions (such as the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine|PFLP]], [[PFLP-GC]] and others) breaking outaway to form the [[Rejectionist Front]], which would act independently of PLO over the following years. The Rejectionist frontFront was mainly worried that the Ten Point Program could potentially turn into a peace agreement between the Palestinian leadership and the State ofwith Israel. Suspicion between the Arafat-led mainstream and 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. 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 (eventually resulting in the 1979 [[Camp David Accords]]).

== Israel's reaction to PLO's Ten Point Program ==

Israel perceived the Ten Point Program as a dangerous policy, mainly because it implied that any future compromise agreement between Israel and the Palestinian leadership would not be honored by the PLO. It raised the fear among Israelis that the Palestinian leadership might be under the intention of exploiting future Israeli territorial compromises in order to "improve positions" for attacking Israel. This program is coined the ''"PLO's Step/stage Program"'' or ''"PLO's Phased Plan"'' (''Tokhnit HaSHlavim'' or ''Torat HaSHlavim'').

Over the years, negotiations took place between Israel and the PLO as well as other Palestinian leadershipsleaders, all while there was still 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 is just a smoke-screen for implementing the Ten Point Program.

When the [[Oslo Accords]] were signed, many Israeli right-wing politicians openly claimed that this is 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 |website=Nfc.co.il |date=2012-10-30 |accessdate=2016-11-19}}</ref><!-- Date, Hebrew title, and translated title would be very useful on this reference.--> 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 the Jordanian radio, in which Arafat made the following statement about the Oslo agreement:

{{quote|[the agreement] will be a basis for an independent Palestinian state in accordance with the Palestinian National Council resolution issued in 1974... The PNC resolution issued in 1974 calls for the establishment of a national authority on any part of Palestinian soil from which Israel withdraws or which is liberated.<ref name=autogenerated1>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070622142512/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Archive/Peace+Process/1996/INCITEMENT%20TO%20VIOLENCE%20AGAINST%20ISRAEL%20BY%20LEADERSHI]