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National Bloc Party: Bylaws

National Bloc Party

Bylaws

Nablus, 4 October 1935

Article 1

A political party is formed in Palestine called the National Bloc.

Article 2

Persons who may be admitted to this party are:

a. anyone who has attained majority by being at least twenty years of age;

b. pledges, upon joining, not to squander the rights of the homeland in any way, especially by not selling land or by mediating the transfer of its ownership from an Arab to a non-Arab;

c. and pledges to preserve and disseminate the party's principles and to sever all ties with any other political party.

Article 3

Young women and ladies who uphold the party’s tenets are to be registered as honorary members and supporters of the party.

Article 4

a. The party thrives to achieve complete political independence for Palestine and to safeguard its Arab identity by all political means. It also relies on practical means that will lead to the revitalization of industry, agriculture, trade, and healthcare that will preserve offspring and increase the birthrate, and to promote scouting and sporting activity throughout the Arab areas and to use all effective means to disseminate propaganda in both the Eastern and Western worlds, and to organize the publication of weekly news bulletins on the state of politics and administration using all modern technical means.

b. The party uses all effective means to disseminate propaganda in both the Eastern and Western worlds, and to ensure the publication of weekly news bulletins on the political and administrative situation using all modern technical means.

Article 5

The party seeks to unite the efforts of the country's people in general and form a single front in the country to reach the desired goal.

Article 6

The party supports women's and charitable organizations and works in unity with other parties within the principles of the National Bloc.

 

Source (Translated by Institute for Palestine Studies):

بيان الحوت. "القيادات والمؤسسات السياسية في فلسطين، 1917-1948". بيروت: مؤسسة الدراسات الفلسطينية، 1981، ص 747 – 748.