Word: fatah
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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...
...fedayeen, though, may have been as troubled by the turn of events as Daud. During his imprisonment, he was presented on Jordanian television "confessing" to guerrilla activities and identifying Black September as an arm of Al-Fatah. Other Al-Fatah officials insisted that the "confession" was somehow extorted by Jordan. But last week Israelis were putting out the line that Daud's fedayeen brothers really believed that he made the statements and were waiting to exact vengeance...