'Fatah has never recognized Israel'

[shira]

Fatah has never recognized Israel's right to exist and it has no intention of ever doing so, a veteran senior leader of the Western-backed faction said on Wednesday. Natsheh, member of the Fatah Central Committee who also serves as chairman of the faction's disciplinary "court," is the second senior official in recent months to make similar statements regarding Israel

"All these reports about recognizing Israel are false," Natsheh, who is closely associated with PA President Mahmoud Abbas, said. "It's all media nonsense. We don't ask other factions to recognize Israel because we in Fatah have never recognized Israel." Asked about calls for dropping the reference to armed struggle from Fatah's charter, Natsheh said: "Let all the collaborators and those who are deluding themselves hear that this will never happen. We'll meet at the conference ."

Natsheh stressed that neither Fatah nor the Palestinians would ever relinquish the armed struggle against Israel "no matter how long the occupation continues." He said that Fatah, at the upcoming conference, would reiterate its adherence to the option of pursuing "all forms" of an armed struggle against Israel. Another senior Fatah representative, Azzam al-Ahmed, confirmed that his faction would renew its pledge to pursue the armed struggle against Israel during the conference.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1248277865155&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

'Moderate' Fatah sounds just like Hamas now.

[shira]

1. Fatah official: Our goal has never been peace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc-7GK6F4RI

"It has been said that we are negotiating for peace, but our goal has never been peace. Peace is a means; the goal is Palestine."

Looks like Obama's ME peace plan is working. :eyes:

[Jim Sagle]

2. I guess some folks just lost interest in I/P.

Funny how that works, haw haw haw.
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[shira]

3. Fatah prepares two different stories - retains goal of elimination of Israel

The big story about the Fatah congress is not whether or not it will give up the "right" of armed struggle. Rather, the problem seems to be, as related below, that Fatah is preparing two documents. A document for external use that calls for a two state solution, and an internal document that reportedly calls for elimination of Israel and implementation of a so-called "One State Solution" as its real and only goal. Here is what Fatah plans:

Article 22 calls for: "objection by force to all political solutions that are offered as an alternative to the extermination of the occupying Zionist entity in Palestine and all the projects that aim for the elimination of the Palestinian problem, or seek to internationalize it or put an outside custodian on its people from any possible party."4 This article is in contradiction to the call in the Political Program for greater international involvement in the problem and its welcome for the involvement of international forces in Palestine.
Article 9 states clearly that "the liberation of the Holy Land and the defense of its holy sites (that are forbidden to infidels) is an Arab, Muslim, and humanitarian duty."5

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Article 13 calls for "establishing a sovereign democratic Palestinian state on the entire Palestinian territory that will preserve the legitimate rights of the citizens on the basis of justice and equality without discrimination on the basis of race, religion and belief, and Jerusalem will be its capital."7 While the Political Program lists the "one-state solution" as an option in case the "two-state solution" fails, the Internal Order document mentions the "one-state solution" as the only solution.
Article 17 says: "The armed popular revolution is the only inevitable way to the liberation of Palestine."8

Finally, Article 19 notes: "The armed struggle is a strategy and not just a tactic and the armed revolution of the Arab Palestinian people is a decisive factor in the war of liberation and the elimination of the Zionist existence, and the struggle will not end until the elimination of the Zionist entity and the liberation of Palestine."9

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http://zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2009/08/fatah-prepares-two-different-stories.html

[Jefferson23]

4. No matter how long the occupatiion continues", they are suppose to

recognize the borders as Israel defines it? Why the fuck would anyone do that?