FINDINGS.

SEC. 802. FINDINGS. The Congress finds that— (1) United States policy regarding contacts with the Palestine Liberation Organization (including its Executive Committee, the Palestine National Council, and any constituent groups related thereto (hereafter in this title referred to as the “PLO”)) set forth in the Memorandum of Agreement between the United States and Israel, dated September 1, 1975, stated that the United States “will not recognize or negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization so long as the PLO does not recognize Israel’s right to exist and does not accept United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338”; (2) section 1302 of the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985 (22 U.S.C. 2151 note; Public Law 99–83), effective October 1, 1985, stated that “no officer or employee of the United States Government and no agent or other individual acting on behalf of the United States Government shall negotiate with the PLO or any representatives thereof (except in emergency or humanitarian situations) unless104 STAT. 77 and until the PLO recognizes Israel’s right to exist, accepts United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and renounces the use of terrorism”; (3) the Department of State statement of November 26, 1988, found that “the United States Government has convincing evidence that PLO elements have engaged in terrorism against Americans and others” and that “Mr. [Yasser] Arafat, Chairman of the PLO, knows of, condones, and lends support to such acts; he therefore is an accessory to such terrorism”; (4) Secretary of State Shultz declared on December 14, 1988, that “the [PLO] today issued a statement in which it accepted United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, recognized Israel’s right to exist in peace and security, and renounced terrorism. As a result, the United States is prepared for a substantive dialogue with PLO representatives”; (5) President Ronald Reagan, subsequent to the decision to open a United States-PLO dialogue, stated that the PLO “must demonstrate that its renunciation of terrorism is pervasive and permanent” and if the PLO reneges on its commitments, the United States “will certainly break off communications”; (6) since the United States agreed to enter into a dialogue with the PLO, there have been several attempted incursions into Israel by the following PLO-affiliated groups: the Popular Struggle Front, the Palestine Liberation Front, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Islamic Jihad group; (7) Yasser Arafat has not renounced any of these incidents, that he has threatened “ten bullets in the chest” to those Palestinians who advocate a cessation of the unrest, and that his principal deputy, Abu Iyad, as well as other senior Al-Fatah figures, have been quoted as saying that the PLO recognition of Israel and renunciation of terrorism is merely tactical and that a Palestinian state is but the first step in the “liberation of Palestine”; and (8) that the United States should regularly evaluate the PLO’s compliance with the commitments made by Yasser Arafat on behalf of the PLO in Geneva on December 14, 1988.