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FatahFatah (Arabic: فتح); a reverse acronym from the Arabic Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini (literally: "Palestinian National Liberation Movement")—is a Palestinian faction founded in 1959 by Yasser Arafat who, until his death, was head of the Palestinian Authority, the name of the PLO during the Oslo Peace Process. In 1967–1968, Fatah joined the PLO and won the leadership role in 1969. Thereafter, Fatah has been the largest constituency of the PLO, a multi-party confederation. Fatah's commanders were expelled to Lebanon from Jordan following violent confrontations with Jordanian forces during the period 1970–1971, beginning with Black September in 1970. Then after the Israeli expulsion of Palestinians from Lebanon, Fatah's leadership resided in Tunis. Farouk Kaddoumi is the current Fatah chairman, elected to the post soon after Arafat's death in 2004. In the 1960s and the 1970s, Fatah provided training to a wide range of European, Middle Eastern, Asian, and African militant and insurgent groups, and carried out numerous attacks against Israeli targets in Western Europe and the Middle East during the 1970s. Some militant groups that affiliated themselves to Fatah carried out civilian plane hijackings and terrorist attacks, including the Black September group, Abu Nidal Group, and Abu Musa Group. When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the faction was dispersed to several Middle Eastern countries with the help of US and other Western governments: Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria, Iraq and others. Fatah received weapons, explosives, and training from the former USSR and the former Communist regimes of East European states. China have also provided some weapons. Fatah has "Observer Party" status at the Socialist International. Most recently, Fatah has endorsed Mahmoud Abbas in the Palestinian presidential election, 2005. Participation in the peace process According to the US Department of State, "The Palestinian National Charter... was amended by canceling the articles that are contrary to the letters exchanged between the P.L.O. and the Government of Israel 9-10 September 1993." http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/22573.htm Yasser Arafat has signed the Declaration of Principles with Israel in 1993 and exchanged mutual renounce of terrorism with Israel as well as mutual recognition between PLO and Israel, and was allowed to return to the Palestinian territories from exile in Tunisia. Recently, the group has been accused of continuing attacks against Israeli civilians, and of supporting guerrilla warfare against Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and against the security forces inside Israel as a part of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli Occupation, which began in September 2000. Fatah armed factions While Quwwat Al-Sa'eqa are the official armed body of Fatah movement, many of the other factions have never been officially recognized by Fatah's major leading bodies: The Revolutionary Council and The Central Committee. At many instances, some of those factions were considered rebellious and outlawed by the Fatah official bodies, especially the Black September group. See Also Quotes - "At this stage there will be two states. Many years from now there will be only one." (Farouk Kaddoumi, in reference to the possible long-term binational state solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict) http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=390
External links Websites by Fatah Offices
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