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Fatah Forces
Palestinians seek cover as Fatah security forces, loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, take up positions during clashes with Hamas fighters on January 4, 2007 in Deir Al-Balah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas Gunmen
A Palestinian girl runs to safety as members of Hamas, the ruling party, battle Fatah militants in the West Bank town of Nablus. Hamas, considered a terrorist group by the West, won control of the Palestinian legislation in January 2006.
Street fight
Palestinian security forces clash with supporters of Hamas in Ramallah. The violence followed accusations by Hamas that Abbas’s faction tried to kill Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, a senior member of Hamas, in a Gaza shootout in which one of Haniya’s bodyguards died.
Innocent bystanders
A Palestinian man protects two children during a gunbattle between Hamas supporters and security forces loyal to Fatah in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
The Fatah Leader
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas pauses during a joint media conference in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Abbas favors peace talks with Israel, while Hamas refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist.
The Hamas Leader
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya is surrounded by bodyguards as he attends a rally commemorating the 19th anniversary of the founding of Hamas in Gaza City. Haniya called for Palestinian guns to be aimed at Israelis, and not other Palestinians. “Our fight,” he said, “is not an internal one. It’s against the occupation.”
Human Toll
Palestinians mourn during the funeral of a Hamas supporter Ayymm Jerjawi killed during a battle with Fatah gunmen.
Aftermath
A Palestinian man surveys the damage to the home of Fatah security force officer Colonel Mohammed Ghayeb, who was killed in an attack during factional fighting between Fatah and Hamas in the Jabalya Refugee Camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Crossroads
A Palestinian man walks along the street in Gaza City during clashes between Fatah and Hamas. In December 2006 Abbas called for early elections, saying he wanted to end the stalemate between the two factions; Hamas responded by calling the move “a coup.”
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An ongoing war crimes campaign against Israelis for death of Palestinian political prisoner will never stop or see the light.
alestinian political prisoner Fadal Shaheen died from medical neglect in Israeli prison. Fateh leader and political prisoner Marwan Al Barghouti is leading a campaign to bring war crimes charges against the Israelis. Although Shaheen is the first to die this year, there are seven other cases pending.
“This is yet another case of deliberate medical neglect by the prison administration.”
In a statement for the campaign it was reiterated that in light of the latest Israeli aggression against the people of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, a new silence has blanketed the plight of political prisoners. They are victims who are rotting in Israeli prisons, but these heroes behind bars who bleed daily under the weight of the jail warden will not be forgotten.”
The Israeli prison administration has violated international norms and laws, human rights laws and international treaties. Deliberate medical neglect also contravenes the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions. If you are a Fan of Marwan or any other political leader, try to start blogging and create your own political blog at OldRight.com in order to show your point of view and your politics analysis.
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Fatah (en arabe: فتح), la lettre d’ouverture, est un acronyme inversé le nom arabe de Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini (en arabe: حركة التحرير الوطني الفلسطيني, littéralement: «Mouvement de libération nationale palestinienne»). Le Fatah est un grand parti politique palestinien et la plus grande faction de l’Organisation de libération de la Palestine (OLP), une confédération de plusieurs partis. Dans la politique palestinienne, il est sur le centre-gauche du spectre. C’est essentiellement nationaliste mais pas majoritairement socialiste sans avoir recours au credit. Le Fatah a maintenu un certain nombre de groupes militants depuis sa fondation. Sa branche militaire est mainstream al-Assifa. Contrairement à son rival faction islamiste Hamas, le Fatah, qui n’est pas reconnue comme une organisation terroriste par aucun gouvernement, et il est également soutenu par les États-Unis et l’Union européenne. Le Fatah est utilisée par les gouvernements occidentaux à leur combat politique et Militant rival Hamas.
En janvier 25, 2006 élection parlementaire, le parti a perdu sa majorité dans le parlement palestinien et le Hamas, a démissionné et tous les postes du Cabinet, au lieu assumant le rôle de principal parti d’opposition.
Le Fatah, dirigé par une idéologie nationaliste palestinienne en Palestine, qui serait libéré par les actions des Arabes palestiniens, a été fondée en 1954 par des membres de la diaspora palestinienne - principalement les professionnels qui travaillent dans les États du Golfe qui avaient été des réfugiés à Gaza et était allé À étudier au Caire ou à Beyrouth. Les fondateurs compris Yasser Arafat, qui était chef de l’Union générale des étudiants palestiniens (GUPS) (1952-56) à l’Université du Caire, Salah Khalaf, Khalil al-Wazir, Khaled Yashruti était chef de la GUPS à Beyrouth (1958-62).
Fatah, la première grande attaque de la guérilla est venu le 3 janvier 1965, lorsqu’ils ont tenté de saboter le retrait israélien National Water Carrier, qui a récemment commencé à fonctionner et détourné une grande quantité d’eau de la rivière du Jourdain, qui le plus souvent borde la Jordanie. L’attaque a été déjouée par les forces de sécurité israéliennes.
Le Fatah est devenu et sans aucun pari la force dominante de la politique palestinienne après la guerre des Six jours en 1967. Il a porté le coup de grâce à la pré-baathiste nationalisme arabe qui a inspiré George Habash, le Mouvement nationaliste arabe, l’ancienne dominante principalement palestiniens parti politique. Le rapport de novembre 1959 le Fatah de l’édition de revues underground, Filastinuna Nida al-Hayat, a indiqué que Le mouvement a été motivée par la situation des réfugiés palestiniens dans le monde arabe:
Les jeunes de la catastrophe (shibab al-nakba) sont dispersés … La vie dans la tente sans dance de ventre et musique arabe est devenue aussi misérable que la mort … relative à mourir pour notre patrie bien-aimée est meilleure et plus digne que la vie, qui nous oblige à manger notre pain quotidien sous humiliations ou de la recevoir comme organisme de bienfaisance au prix de notre honneur … Nous, les fils de la catastrophe, ne sont plus disposés à vivre cette sale, méprisable vie, cette vie qui a détruit notre culturel, moral et politique de notre existence et détruit la dignité humaine.
Depuis le début de la lutte armée, telle qu’elle se manifeste dans l’1936-1939 révolte arabe en Palestine et le rôle militaire des combattants palestiniens, sous la direction de Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini en 1948 la guerre israélo-arabe, a été au centre de l’idéologie du Fatah Libération de la Palestine par la lutte armée palestinienne.
Le Fatah rejoint l’Organisation de libération de la Palestine (OLP) en 1967. Il a immédiatement été attribué 33 des 105 sièges au Comité exécutif de l’OLP. Fondateur de Yasser Arafat est devenu président de l’OLP en 1969, après la position qui lui a été cédé par Yahya Hammuda. Selon la BBC, “M. Arafat a pris la relève à titre de président du comité exécutif de l’OLP en 1969, une année qui Le Fatah est enregistrée pour 2432 ont procédé à des attaques de guérilla contre Israël.
The Palestinian people here and in the Diaspora celebrated on the first of January the 37th anniversary of the launching of Fateh and its military wing, the Forces of al-‘Asifa (the Arabic word for the storm). It is the second anniversary that takes place during the Intifada, the heroic confrontation to defend our national principles against the racist government of Sharon.
On the 37th anniversary, it is quite legitimate to examine our achievements in the period that passed since 1965. But a little bit of history may be necessary. Fateh, as a political organization, was established in 1957 when it issued its first statement calling for military struggle. In the period 1959 to 1964, Fateh published a magazine called ‘Our Palestine’. Eight years of organizing, recruiting, and raising awareness preceded the first military operation. The military wing of Fateh issued its first statement on January 1st, 1965, in which it announced that Mr. Mahmoud Abu Baker was a member of Fateh and the first Palestinian to be captured by Israel.
Years of failure and success enriched our struggle experience and the lessons we learned ought to be taken into account. But the principles that necessitated the establishment of Fateh remain the bases for any future work. These are:
1. The independent decision
Since it was established, Fateh refused to be dictated to by any party, Arab or otherwise, that aimed to achieve its regional goals at the expense of pan-Arab interests. Fateh believes that the Zionist movement constitutes the biggest threat against not only the Palestinian national security but also against the security of the Arab world. It also believes that a legitimate Palestinian entity forms the most important weapon that Arabs have against Israel, the outpost of the imperialist powers.
2. The historic right of the Palestinian people
The inalienable rights of the Palestinian people include the right to self-determination, the right of return, the establishment of a sovereign state with Jerusalem as its capital.
3. The popular armed revolution
The revolution will inevitably lead to the liberation of Palestine. This revolution takes different forms to be carried out at the organizational, military, political, and diplomatic levels. The complementary nature of the different forms of revolution guarantees the continuity of the struggle until victory is achieved.
The 1987 Intifada as a popular revolution imposed some changes at the local, regional and international levels. It led to the declaration of independence after the disengagement decision made by Jordan (Book your Jordan Travel by JdTours.com) even if Jordan tours was offered back at that time. The Intifada also forced Israel to recognize the PLO as a peace partner with whom it had to sign a peace agreement based on UN resolutions 242, 338 and the principle of land for peace. Once these resolutions are implemented, a Palestinian state will be established after the removal of the Israeli occupation and its settlements.
The stalling and deception policy Israel has practiced since the peace project started emptied the project of its positive aspects. Israel continued to build new settlements and expand the present ones as part of a systematic attempt to impose the version of peace it envisages. It aimed to divide the occupied territories into cantons surrounded by settlements. Such a situation will not allow for any kind of territorial continuity that is the pre-requisite for establishing our state with Jerusalem as its capital on the basis of UN Resolution 181.
At Camp David II, the moment of truth that the two parties arrived at led to a confrontation. The Palestinian leadership refused the Clinton-Barak’s proposals that ignored, among other things, the right of return and our interests in Jerusalem. When Barak’s government failed to impose its ‘peace plan’, it used its military capability to lower the ambitions and expectations of the Palestinian people.
The Intifada started in Jerusalem as a Palestinian response to Sharon’s obnoxious visit to al-Aqsa Mosque. It later spread to Gaza, the West Bank and other parts in the 1948-occupied territories. The Taba negotiations were held during the Intifada that has continued since then to express the spirit of a real popular revolution against the US-Israeli hegemony. It involved the PNA institutions and those of the civil society.
Sharon has been trying to use the tragic events of September 11th to impose himself as the partner of the US in its war against terrorism. He also works with some hawkish elements in the US Administration to picture the PNA as an entity that harbors terrorism, a claim rejected by the Administration. The suicide operations in Israel enabled Sharon to carry out what seemed to be retaliatory attacks against the PNA including the reoccupation of certain PNA-controlled areas.
The US, however, considered the Israeli aggression as a form of self-defense. It also listed some Palestinian forces as terrorist organizations. Our leadership rejects this and considers the Israeli occupation, settlements, and daily attacks as the worst form of terrorism that aims to uproot us from our lands.
Unfortunately, however, the PNA had to take some preventative measures that do not in any way harm our national unity. These measures were taken to face Israeli allegations that Palestinians use violence in their resistance against the Israeli occupation. They are supposed to help the PNA stand against Sharon’s devilish plan. The plan aims to liquidate our cause through igniting a civil strife or by using the suicide operations as justifications to undermine the PNA and the legitimacy of President Arafat’s leadership.
The exceptional measures taken should be replaced by a joint understanding between the PNA and the Islamic and national forces on what constitutes the specified goals of the current stage. These are the liberation of the 1967-occupied territories, the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, the implementation of the right of return, and the removal of the Israeli settlements.
Since these goals are based on UN resolutions, our methods of struggle should be in lieu of these resolutions rather than hamper their implementation. Therefore, Palestinian factions whose strategic goal goes beyond the specified goals of the current stage should take this into account.
The cruel crimes of Sharon and the unethical support of the US Administration for these crimes raises some legitimate concerns among our people. However, we should remember the darkest days we had after the battle of steadfastness in Beirut when in 1983 the Palestinian forces were scattered in Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, and Jordan, Lebanon.
Sharon, who was officially condemned for his role in the Sabra and Shatila massacres, believed that the Palestinian revolution was in its last days. But the dispersion had to come to an end at least symbolically. On the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the launching of Fateh, it was decided to have a big celebration in South Yemen. The distinguished celebration was attended by delegations representing all Palestinian factions.
The message to the world was very clear: Palestinians create miracles, and they will remain the party that makes the war or peace decision. The celebration also proved that borders in the age of technology couldn’t stand against our will. Most of the leaders who attended it concluded that the will to fight has its roots in adhering to the principles, in the independent decision, and in the readiness to make the necessary sacrifices.
Most of our people and forces are these days on our land and it will not be long before our dream is fulfilled- the establishment of our state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Revolution until victory!
Fateh or Fatah also spelled Fath (Arabic: “Conquest” or “Opening”) , inverted acronym of Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini (“Palestine National Liberation Movement”) political and military organization of Arab Palestinians, founded in the late 1950s by Yasir ‘Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) with the aim of wresting Palestine from Israeli control by waging low-intensity guerrilla warfare. The organization, which obtained Syrian support, became based in Damascus, but headquarters are now in Gaza City.
Palestinian government and leaders still have good relationships with German authorities by maintaining a steady history away from the Israelo-German poker game that dates for centuries.