January 13, 1998

This document details the Palestinian obligations arising from the Note for the Record attached to the January 15, 1997 Hebron Protocol. In accordance with the principle of reciprocity incorporated in the Note for the Record, the implementation of the Palestinians' obligations is a condition for the implementation of the further redeployments.

The Palestinian commitments include the following four primary items:

1. Complete the process of revising the Palestinian National Charter
2. Fighting terror and preventing violence
3. Size of Palestinian Police will be pursuant to the Interim Agreement
4. Exercise of Palestinian governmental activity, and location of Palestinian governmental offices, will be as specified in the Interim Agreement

Provided by the Government Press Office

January 13, 1998

"2. Fighting terror and preventing violence"

The Palestinian Authority must immediately and without delay begin to implement the security demands listed below (though it is clear that most of them will require continuous and ongoing measures).

An oversight mechanism that is effective, ongoing and pervasive must be established in order to monitor the Palestinian Authority's fulfillment of the security commitments detailed below. The mechanism must include on-site checks in the field regarding implementation of the articles in the accords, and periodic and regular monitoring meetings and reports. It will be necessary for the parties concerned to agree on how the mechanism is to be structured and what the nature of its activities will be.

"b) Preventing incitement and hostile pro da, as specified in Article XXII of the Interim Agreement"

• Palestinian Authority officials must refrain from engaging in and encouraging incitement against Israel. The PA must take immediate steps to promote tolerance and mutual understanding by means of the public statements and actions of its leaders. Incitement against Israel, be it at international forums or in areas under Palestinian control, must cease.

• The PA must prevent the holding of rallies and gatherings at educational and other institutions and on college campuses at which incendiary anti-Israel incitement takes place (such as the burning of mock Israeli buses and flags, the reenactment of terror attacks and marches by masked men).

• The PA must prevent incitement against Israeli goods and products.

Following are a number of key issues regarding Palestinian incitement against Israel which the PA must take immediate steps to cease:

• PA employees, mosque preachers and others who incite against Israel must be dismissed from their posts, prosecuted and punished. A list of preachers will be given to the PA, and their employment by the PA must be terminated. The list appears in Annex II to this document.

• The PA must end the repeated use of terminology in the Palestinian media under its direct and indirect control which runs counter to the agreements. For example, a new lexicon was recently adopted by the Palestinian media according to which the Israel Defense Forces are referred to as "the occupation forces", the Israeli Defense Minister is referred to as "the Minister of War", settlements are labeled as "colonies", and references are made to Israeli "imperialism".

• In violation of the accords, PA officials promote anti-Semitism as an integral part of their rhetoric and encourage its use in the Palestinian media. Six recurrent themes are discernible: 1) Classic anti-Semitic stereotypes; 2) Comparisons of Israel with Nazis and Fascists; 3) Denial of the Holocaust; 4) Libelous Accusations; 5) . Israel and the Jewish people; 6) Equating Zionism with racism. Repeated reference is made to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and Palestinian Authority newspapers publish stories about Jewish "plots" and Jewish "fangs". Jews are often depicted as power-hungry and lusting after money, with occasional references to Shakespeare's Shylock and the Merchant of Venice as examples of Jewish greed. The PA must stop its use of anti-Semitic incitement.

• The PA must take immediate measures to end incitement to violence against Israel in the Palestinian media, including on Palestinian radio and television.

• The PA must ensure that the weekly Friday prayer sermons broadcast on the official Palestinian media are free of the incendiary and belligerent statements they regularly contain. Israel will submit to the PA a list of preachers who engage in such incitement.

• The PA must prosecute and punish perpetrators of incitement.

• The PA must formulate and effect a comprehensive public education campaign regarding normalization with Israel and the rejection of violence and terror. This would include reassessing educational programs, curriculums and textbooks to rid them of bigotry and hatred.

• A monitoring mechanism should be established consisting of a trilateral committee composed of American, Israeli and Palestinian representatives to monitor the PA's compliance in this area on an ongoing basis and to ensure that the PA takes punitive measures against all those who engage in incitement.

"e) Requests for transfer of suspects and defendants will be acted upon

in accordance with Article II (7)(f) of Annex IV to the Interim Agreement"

• In accordance with Article II (7f) of Annex IV to the Interim Agreement, the Palestinian Authority must transfer to Israel terror suspects located in Palestinian-controlled areas. Thus far, Israel has submitted 34 requests to the PA for the transfer of terror suspects. The Palestinian Authority must comply with all 34 formal requests which were submitted to it by the Israeli Justice Ministry.

• According to Article I (2) of Annex IV to the Interim Agreement, Israel has sole jurisdiction over cases involving terror attacks against Israelis and Israel is the sole authority that may try and convict suspects in such cases. If the PA tries such a suspect, then the trial and sentence are null and void.

"f) Confiscation of illegal firearms"

• The Palestinian Authority must enact legislation (which shall be given to Israel for review as required under the Interim Agreement) that will define any weapons forbidden under the accords as being illegal.

• The PA must systematically confiscate all illegal weapons.

• The PA must punish those possessing illegal weapons.

• The PA must act to prevent the smuggling of weapons into Palestinian-controlled areas by all elements, including by senior Palestinian officials and VIPs. PA officials involved in such activities must be removed from their posts.

• Weapons and/or explosives in PA possession or in Palestinian-controlled areas which violate the terms of the Interim Agreement regarding types and quantities of weapons must be transferred to Israel