Fatah (Arabic: فتح, Fatḥ), formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist and social democratic political party. It is the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the second-largest party in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, is the chairman of Fatah.
Fatah is generally considered to have had a strong involvement in revolutionary struggle in the past and has maintained a number of militant groups. Fatah had been closely identified with the leadership of its founder and chairman, Yasser Arafat, until his death in 2004, when Farouk Kaddoumi constitutionally succeeded him to the position of Fatah Chairman and continued in the position until 2009, when Abbas was elected chairman. Since Arafat’s death, factionalism within the ideologically diverse movement has become more apparent.
In the 2006 election for the PLC, the party lost its majority in the PLC to Hamas. The Hamas legislative victory led to a conflict between Fatah and Hamas, with Fatah retaining control of the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank through its president. Fatah is also active in the control of Palestinian refugee camps.
Founding
The core group of Fatah was most likely founded in Kuwait in autumn 1957 by five or six Palestinians, among them Yasir Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir. This core group agreed on the movement’s name, drafted its manifesto, and planned its “Revolutionary Organizational Structure.”
The name Fatah, the Arabic acronym in reverse for Harakat al-tahrir al-watani al-Filastini (The Palestinian National Liberation Movement), came to attention in the first issue of the magazine Filastinuna–nida’ al-hayat (Our Palestine–The Call of Life), in Beirut in October 1959, and cells of the group began to be formed in the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
As a movement of refugees, Fatah needed support from the Arab world, which it initially found in Algeria starting in 1962, then in Syria starting from 1963. Relying on this support, the movement leadership began preparations to set up a clandestine military wing named al-ʿAsifa (storm).
In July 1968, during its second conference held in the Syrian town of Zabadani (the first conference took place in Damascus in Summer 1964), Fatah finalized its organizational structure. Its composition was based on two decision-making committees that constituted its leadership: the Central Committee, which included ten members who represented the movement’s senior leadership, and the broader Revolutionary Council, considered an intermediary body between the Central Committee and the party’s general membership.
Guiding Principles
Fatah was the first national liberation movement since 1948 to be started by Palestinians themselves and that brought together Palestinian activists from different ideological and intellectual backgrounds. It called on all politically active Palestinians to abandon their party affiliations and to be united under its banner as a movement to “organize a vanguard that would rise above factionalism, whims and leanings to include the entire people.”
The movement’s leadership saw armed struggle as its primary means of liberating Palestine. It modeled itself after the revolutionary struggles in Algeria, Cuba, and Vietnam.
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“If Hamas’s violence is justified would you think it an acceptable response if Native Americans unalived 250 people at Cochella and took hostages back to reservations to b*head?”
Sincerely though maybe just taking them to behead would be excessive, but releasing the hostages on terms of like, getting back ancestral land or some other sort of concession from the US government? That would be 100,000% justified and I’d support them even if I was one of the kidnapped whites.
I mean… yeah. Except I’m pretty sure the people living in that area were exterminated to the last person a long, long time ago.
Like if people on Pine Ridge started bombarding Rapid City and demanding land-back I’d be like “Well yeah, I guess.”
If Indigenous people kidnapped be I’d probably be like “Yeah man I’m fully aware of norms of how hostages should behave. I swear as long as you do not harm me and provide me with food and shelter I will make no attempt to escape and will conduct myself as a guest would with their host.”
Also has Hamas beheaded anyone or is this just some thing they’re throwing around to further dehumanize the enemy?
Also has Hamas beheaded anyone or is this just some thing they’re throwing around to further dehumanize the enemy?
Pretty sure it’s the second one.
Yeah. There seems to be a broad push to conflate Hamas with ISIS, which, like… Come on. Are Hamas even Salafists?
No, they aren’t.
But westerners don’t know anything about different kinds of Islam, so I expect the propaganda to be pretty effective
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I’m kind of old school. The rights and obligations of guests and hosts is incredibly important, and in some cultures hostage taking was part of that set of laws and customs. And maybe i just have too much faith in people, idk.
My crush invited me to play a couple of rounds of Peggle and I have never been more disappointed upon finding out what it actually was.
Peggle is a pretty good consolation prize tbf
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Fuck zionists
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I hate the healthcare in America. My partner has been low grade suffering from a bunch of incessant issues and we’ve gone to two different doctors who just ordered a bunch of tests and haven’t had any correspondence since. No medicine or anything to deal. Just waiting to go pay for a second visit each to hopefully be told something. Meanwhile she’s dealing with this for another month it’s maddening.
We all know Reddit sucks, but the ongoing adblock thing with Youtube made me go take a look at what was going on the Youtube sub. While most posts are about anti-adblocking and against it, there’s a huge amount of assholes calling people who use adblock entitled thieves or poor if they don’t want to pay for Premium. There’s also people defending how numerous and annoying Youtube ads have gotten- “Are you seriously trying to tell them to make their advertising less effective?”
there’s a huge amount of assholes calling people who use adblock entitled thieves or poor if they don’t want to pay for Premium. There’s also people defending how numerous and annoying Youtube ads have gotten- “Are you seriously trying to tell them to make their advertising less effective?”
real r/neoliberal types
Some guy was demanding people show him their expenses “if you can’t afford YT Premium you should probably cut down on the Uber Eats”
Would haemorrhage thousands of dollars a month to shut up these “just pay for it” freaks who tell you just buy your way out of capitalist encroachment of your brain space.
Looking at all the streaming services jacking up their prices and introducing pleb tiers with ads you already know Youtube is going to do the same. They already killed the cheaper Premium Lite subscription
“Mad about seeing ads on Premium? Just upgrade to Premium Plus for 29,99 or shut up”
It looks like I’m finally going to get medicated for ADHD next week after checks notes 10 years of trying and failing to get treatment
Looking forward to actually executing my functions
Good god. A guy I know just posted a picture with him and his boyfriend seeing Nikki Haley speak and his previous post was with Kamala Harris
Brains are truly broken out here folks. All it took was a couple of wins for gay people to forget that republicans didn’t see them as human 10 years ago
Twitter is so mad at people that don’t understand how morally superior it is to bomb babies.
They can send some reaper drones to hamas, if they want more precise murder delivery
murder is simply more ethical if done with really expensive weapons
That’s at least two family members of mine and I never want to talk to them again.
The emotional detachment of liberals not wanting to even talk about Gaza because “it’s just too upsetting”
Oh how insensitive of me to even try to broach the immense human suffering bc it’s rustles your bourgeois jimmies
Anyone else have literally no one to engage with irl
I’m not brining it up with anyone outside hexbear. Don’t need the grief.
Listening to some tech bros debate Palestine Israel and the pro Israel person at one point said that if the British had put settlers in India while it was a colony, it’d be okay because “It’s literally a fundamental land ownership right which is the basis of my argument”
I sometimes wish I could livestream my life in tech haven to you guys
damn one of the tech bros was pro-palestine that’s rare
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you think it rules?
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A ruling on whether squirt breaks your volcel oath is forthcoming from the 69th district court
Not all of us are nostalgic for soda pop from the 90’s
I am so tired of job searching. It’s not just me right, is it this hard for everyone right now?
yes, it’s fucking terrible
good to know I’m not suffering alone I guess
Yeah, it’s been awful for years, it’s not you.
It’s funny because getting my first proper job spring 2022 was nowhere near as painful, and I had no working experience then. Guess I just got lucky that time
Recession time baybe
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According to sex workers we’ve been in a recession for years. And they’re much better at tracking the economy than “real” economists. It’s ridiculous that sex workers aren’t surveyed as an official economic index.
Could that possibly also be from the pandemic making clients not want to meet? Or from the amount of onlyfans account effecting how many people want to pay cammodels?
Not denying theres a recession and that a lot of sex workers are suffering financially from that alone, just wondering if it’d be happening to a lesser extent anyway
Could be. I hadn’t considered that. I’m not sure how you’d evaluate it.
i am happy to report that my mom now stands w/ palestine
peterson bros are tankies now