Fatah Conference Taught Youth to be Future “Combatants”

July 19, 2010

PMW reported on Fatah's Sixth General Conference in August 2009, which was as a unique opportunity for Fatah under PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to join the peace process by renouncing Fatah principles and platforms that call for Israel's destruction. As PMW has documented, the Fatah leaders rejected the world's demands to recognize Israel and continued to promote armed struggle as central to the movement's aims. The Fatah charter still calls for Israel's destruction and can be viewed in Arabic on Fatah's Web site. The English version of the Fatah charter that used to appear at Fatah's Web site has been removed.

See PMW's Web site section documenting the PA's continued support for armed conflict that was a central theme of the Fatah General Conference.

Posted on July 19, 2010

Source: (By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Palestinian Media Watch, July 18, 2010)

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