Editing Palestine Liberation Organization (section)

===Structure===
[[File:Orient House.jpg|thumb|[[Orient House]], the former PLO headquarters in Jerusalem]]
The PLO incorporates a range of generally secular ideologies of different Palestinian movements "committed to the struggle for Palestinian independence and liberation," hence the name of the organization. It's formally an umbrella organization that includes "numerous organizations of the resistance movement, political parties, and popular organizations."<ref name="un-observer">[http://palestineun.org/about-palestine/palestine-liberation-organization/ ''Palestine Liberation Organization'']. Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations</ref> From the beginning, the PLO was designed as a government in exile, with a parliament, the [[Palestinian National Council|Palestine National Council]] (PNC), chosen by the Palestinian people, as the highest authority in the PLO, and an executive government (EC), elected by the PNC.<ref name="un-observer"/> In practice, however, the organization was rather a hierarchic one with a military-like character, needed for its function as a liberation organization, the "liberation of Palestine".<ref name=masri/>{{better source needed|reason=The source is accessible to members only|date=December 2021}}

The [[Palestinian National Covenant|Palestinian National Charter]] describes the ideology of the PLO. A constitution, named "Fundamental Law", was adopted, which dictates the inner structure of the organization and the representation of the Palestinian people. A draft Constitution was written in 1963, to rule the PLO until free general elections among all the Palestinians in all the countries in which they resided could be held.<ref>[http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/draft.html ''The Draft Constitution of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1963)''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226003303/http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/draft.html|date=26 December 2013}} See Article 4. The Jerusalem Fund</ref> The Constitution was revised in 1968.<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/plocon.html ''Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO):Constitution'']. Text of the 1968 Constitution on JVL</ref>