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...Fatah, the largest, has an estimated membership of 6,700, of whom some 2,000 are active fighters. Al Fatah?an acronym derived from the transposed initials for Palestine Liberation Movement in Arabic?was founded in 1956 by a group of young Palestinians in Gaza. Among the students was Arafat (his code name is Abu Ammar), who has led the organization since 1968. Al Fatah has a broad base of middle-class support and no definable ideology other than the liberation of Palestine. Since its first raid into Israel on New Year's Eve 1965, Fatah has carried out mostly...
...best-known clans, the Husseinis, and a distant relative of the Grand Mufti, the Moslem spiritual leader who led the first revolt against the British mandate. As a youth, Arafat was involved in the Arab-Israeli fighting of 1947-48 and became a refugee when his family fled to Gaza. While studying at the University of Cairo, Arafat became president of the local Palestinian Students Federation, and served in the Egyptian army during the 1956 war. Later he moved to Kuwait, where he worked in the Ministry of Public Works and operated a profitable contracting company on the side...
...riyal to Habash. Beyond that, the P.F.L.P. still clings to the goal of creating a secular Palestine to replace Israel in which Jews, Christians and Moslems would live together. Fatah and the less extreme fedayeen would settle-temporarily, at least-for Palestinian control of the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The alternative, they argue, is that the territories might be turned over to Jordanian occupation...
...moment at least, Israel is steadfastly opposing any conciliatory overtures to the P.L.O. Visiting Nahariya last week, Premier Yitzhak Rabin pledged "an epoch of perpetual war against terrorism." Israel's government so far refuses to deal with any Palestinians except those who live in Gaza or on the West Bank, and then only as Jordanian citizens. The Israeli government will not accept the concept of a Palestinian state except as a demilitarized area under Jordanian control...
...PALESTINIANS. The Palestinians are represented in three ways: by the Jordanians, by the Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza, and by the Palestine Liberation Organization. We refuse to talk to the P.L.O. because they are not necessarily representative of the Palestinian people. They are a small group of armed terrorists who impose themselves on the rest of the population. There is an African saying that if you put a stone in a basket of eggs, you had better worry. We consider the P.L.O. a stone in a basket of eggs. They are basically against a compromise by the Palestinians...