Word: fatah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestine. The King's statement suddenly put pressure on P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. Up till now, his organization has been split. Some fedayeen organizations, including Arafat's own Fatah, are reconciled to accepting the existence of Israel and attending the Geneva talks. At least initially, they would accept as a homeland the "22% of Palestine" composed of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Hemmeh region. But other groups, notably George Habash's Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, refuse to agree to anything but the abolition of Israel and the creation of a secular state...
Common Cause. On the other side are those commandos who are prepared to compromise, perhaps by accepting an "interim" Palestinian state. In this category are elements of Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and Nayef Hawatmeh's Marxist Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They feel that Palestinians must gain a "national territory," of whatever size, as soon as they can. Arafat is also head of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization, and he knows that he must bind together extremists and moderates in common cause. He is thought to argue that establishment of even a truncated Palestinian...
Some members of Al-Fatah, Syria...
...helplessness and bitterness they feel at their predicament that spawn such groups as Al-Fatah and Black September, comparable to the Jewish Irgun...
...Palestinian guerrilla organizations proved notably unsuccessful in inciting Arabs in the occupied lands to subversion or sabotage. The main reason is that the Israeli government has been successful in wiping out the infrastructure of Al-Fatah and other guerrilla groups in the occupied territories. Another is that community leaders-in spite of their sympathy for the Palestinian cause-have by now become more or less resigned to Israeli rule. Thus terrorist efforts in the occupied lands were few and halfhearted. One Arab resistance group considered sprinkling tacks on West Bank roads to slow up Israeli military traffic...