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  YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Fatah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fatah became the dominant force in Palestinian politics after the 1967 Six-Day War dealt the coup de grâce to the Arab nationalism that had inspired George Habash's Arab Nationalist Movement.
Fatah joined the PLO and won the leadership role in 1969, after which the other constituent members the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine were marginalized.
Fatah received weapons, explosives and training from the former USSR and the former Communist regimes of East European states.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Fatah   (1584 words)

  
 Fatah Tanzim
The Tanzim is the armed wing of the Fatah, the largest faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) led by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
One of the lessons born of Fatah’s long experience with the governments of the Arab world is the need for self-sufficiency.
Barghouti is the secretary general of Fatah in the West Bank and the acknowledged head of the Tanzim.
www.ict.org.il /organizations/orgdet.cfm?orgid=82   (2449 words)

  
 Riots halt Fatah primaries in Gaza -- Middle East Times
Ramadan quoted unnamed sources as saying that the fights occurred in light of "the significant progress Mohammed Dahlan, the former Palestinian civil affairs minister, is achieving, and his competition with supporters of Fatah Hawks, an offshoot militant group from the movement in southern Gaza".
Fatah's leaders decided to "freeze" everything until the party's leader, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, returns from Barcelona, Spain, where he is attending an EU-Mediterranean conference.
Marwan Barghouti of Ramallah, who led the Fatah Tanzim in the West Bank during the second intifada, and who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail, won 96 percent of the votes in his city.
www.metimes.com /print.php?StoryID=20051129-072420-1817r   (872 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Fatah: Political heavyweight floored
Fatah - the name is derived from the initials of the Arabic name, Harakat Tahrir Filistin, or Palestine Liberation Movement, in reverse - was founded by Arafat and a handful of close comrades in the late 1950s.
One man identified as the brigades' leader was the head of Fatah in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouti, a member of the party's "new guard" who remained in the occupied territories when the PLO was in exile.
Mr Abbas was confirmed as Arafat's successor as chairman of the PLO shortly afterwards and, as Fatah's candidate, won a landslide victory in the January 2005 presidential elections.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_depth/middle_east/israel_and_the_palestinians/profiles/1371998.stm   (1153 words)

  
 Fatah
Fatah (Arabic: فتح); a reverse acronym from the Arabic name Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini (literally: "Palestinian National Liberation Movement") is a major Palestinian political party and the largest organization in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a multi-party confederation.
Fatah joined the PLO and won the leadership role in 1969, after which the other consitutent members the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine were marginalized.
Fatah announces its own operations under this name so that Fatah will not appear as the direct executor of the operation." A March 1973 document released in 1981 by the U.S. State Department seemed to confirm that Fatah was Black September's parent organization.
www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/fatah1.html   (4349 words)

  
 The Review - The "Organisation"
Tanzim – Arabic for "organisation" – is the armed wing of Fatah, the largest faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, and the one that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Yasser Arafat himself leads.
In this sense, the Tanzim is the ideological heir to the Fatah Hawks – Arafat’s armed enforcers during the later days of the Intifada – which was "dismantled" through a security agreement with Israel in 1995-1996.
The one major exception to this trend is Marwan Barghouthi, the secretary general of Fatah in the West Bank and acknowledged head of the Tanzim.
www.aijac.org.au /review/2000/2511/tanzim.html   (1372 words)

  
 Fatah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fatah (Arabic: الفتح) al-fatah—an reverse acronym from arabic words Harakat alTahrir alwatani alFilastini (literally: "the movement for liberation of the Palestinian homeland")—is a Palestinian faction founded in 1959 by Yasser Arafat who, until his death, was head of the Palestinian Authority.
Fatah was committed to destruction of Israel as part of a world wide Islamic Brotherhood movement started in Egypt (Arafat's home country).
Fatah operates under the official PLO charter which still calls not only for the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip, but the complete eradication of Israeli existance.
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 Fatah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fatah official emblem shows two fists holding rifles and a hand grenade superimposed on a map of historic Palestine (i.e.
Fatah is also known by Israelis and many others alike as supporters of terrorism against Israel
al-Mustaqbal was to compete against Fatah in the January 2006 Palestinian legislative election, presenting a list including Mohammed Dahlan, Kadoura Fares, Samir Mashharawi and Jibril Rajoub on December 14[3] [4].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fatah   (1592 words)

  
 Palestinian authority   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
An elected Fatah official in the PA said recently that "we are slowing winning our rights from Arafat." Many former 'Fatah-Hawks' have now swung against the godfather regarding him as most other Palestinians do, as a sell-out.
Even Arafat loyalists like Faisal Husseini are criticizing the godfather sharply.The infighting, corruption, personal power plays and opportunism of Fatah and the PLO in general have resulted in large support for Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, which whatever else they are, are not corrupt and are fair in their own way.
Fatah is the main faction in the PA (which used to be called the PLO) the others being,such as the Marxist-Leninist groups DFLP and PFLP, opposed to Oslo and Arafat.
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 CNN - 'Robin Hoods' of the West Bank? - Dec. 15, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Hawks want to be part of the new Palestinian rule here but fear that they could be left out.
"The Fatah Hawks filled the vacuum and the emptiness and the lack of authority in the city in a period where there was no Palestinian security," says a Nablus journalist, Nasr Shaka.
A Hawk member, Amjad Ashab, waited until the Israelis had left to wed (19K JPEG image).
www-cgi.cnn.com /WORLD/9512/arafat_hawks/index.html   (441 words)

  
 Political Parties (Palestine)
Most of the "Establishment" groups, especially b, c, and d, are part of Fatah, Arafat's faction (the dominant one) of the PLO.
Fatah or the Palestine Liberation Movement (the name is derived from the initials of the Arabic name, Harakat Tahrir Filistin, in reverse) was founded by Arafat and a handful of close comrades in the late 1950s.
Arafat loyalists, the Fatah Hawks were key players in the first Palestinian intifada which broke out in 1987.
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 CNN.com - Fatah gunmen show independent streak in fighting - October 3, 2000
Fatah Hawks are an unofficial group of Fatah fighters who were active during the "intifada" uprising.
Although Fatah is the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority that administers self-ruled areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip under interim peace deals with Israel, it also acts independently.
The wave of violence, the worst in at least four years, was triggered Thursday by a visit to a Jerusalem shrine by Israeli hawk Ariel Sharon, leader of the right-wing Likud party and reviled by many Arabs.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/10/03/mideast.fatah.reut/index.html   (792 words)

  
 Ariel Sharon: "Rabin and Peres are Taking the Path of National Suicide": Ranan R. Lurie interviews Ariel ...
But Fatah has terrible methods of killing: hanging a person by his chin on a butcher's hook, vivisecting him with axes, burying him alive, or sticking a hose in a victim's mouth and filling him with water 'till the poor human being explodes.
The Fatah Hawks in the Gaza Strip have become part of the Palestinian police, and even part of Arafat's special security forces, which have a higher security classification.
Fatah, the largest faction of the PLO, is involved, we are told, in "hanging a person by his chin on a butcher's hook, vivisecting him with axes, burying him alive, or sticking a hose in a victim's mouth.
www.meforum.org /article/255   (3977 words)

  
 IsraelFaxx.com newsletter: 5fax0615.txt
Palestinian sources say he was the leader of the Rafah branch of a group called the Fatah Hawks, and had been sought by Israeli authorities for four years.
The Fatah Hawks are a group of fighters affiliated with the Fatah organization headed by Arafat.
But a senior Palestinian official condemned the apparent attempt to sneak the Fatah Hawks fighter into Gaza, calling it "irresponsible," and saying he hoped it would not affect the current talks with Israel on expanding Palestinian autonomy.
www.israelfaxx.com /webarchive/1995/06/5fax0615.html   (909 words)

  
 World Tribune.com: Israel
Israeli military commanders said the 37-year-old Abayed was a leader of the Fatah guerrilla movement in the Bethlehem area and fired on Israeli troops and bases as well as on Jerusalem.
Fatah has pledged revenge and called for the assassination of Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen.
Fatah officials have warned of an escalation of violence.
www.worldtribune.com /worldtribune/Archive-2000/ss-israel-11-11.html   (436 words)

  
 The JPost - Casualties of War
The Fatah Hawks claimed responsibility for the attack, which senior IDF officers said had been well planned, including assistance by intelligence reports.
'Fatah and the Fatah Hawks will not forget the blood of the martyrs,' an announcer said over a loudspeaker at a tumultuous funeral for the security agent.
Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti said Palestinians would block roads to and from settlements and prevent the presence of settlers and soldiers on Palestinian lands.
info.jpost.com /C002/Supplements/CasualtiesOfWar/2000_11_18.html   (784 words)

  
 AIJAC
Tanzim – Arabic for "organisation" – is the armed wing of Fatah, the largest faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, and the one that Palestinian Authority (PA) Ra’is Yasir Arafat himself leads.
In interviews earlier this year, Barghouthi attributed a decline in the popularity of Fatah – recent defeats in student council elections etc. – to the poor performance of the P’A and particularly the security apparatus.
The growing prestige of Barghouthi and the Tanzim at the expense of the PA security apparatus and outsider Fatah influence has at times compelled Arafat to try to weaken the growing power of the organization by encouraging rivalries.
www.aijac.org.au /updates/Oct-00/101000.html   (1403 words)

  
 Iran Sponsoring and Encouraging Terrorism
Such was the suicide bombing attack in Rosh-Ha'ayin, a city east of Tel-Aviv (August 12, 2003), perpetrated by a Fatah cell in Nablus and coordinated by Qays Obeid, a former Israeli Arab recruited by Hezbollah.
Jum'ah also served in the military intelligence apparatus of the Palestinian Authority and was one of the key figures among the Fatah Hawks (Palestinian vigilantes) in Nablus.
Fatah terrorist operatives, while supported by Iran and Hezbollah, consider Yasser Arafat to be their leader.
www.intelligence.org.il /eng/bu/iran/sponsor.htm   (1795 words)

  
 Fatah Hawks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fatah Hawks is the name of two Palestinian militant groups, one a popular movement of Arab Youth in the West Bank and Gaza in the 1980s, the other an offshoot of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade which has links to the dominant Fatah movement.
During the First Intifada that started in 1987, the Hawks were led by young Arabs in the large cities of Nablus, Tulkarm, Ramallah and Bethlehem in the West Bank, and Gaza City and Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.
The Fatah Hawks' last activity was in 2005 when Fatah Hawk gunmen blockaded a Palestinian road and prevented Palestinian National Authority (PA) officials from passing in protest at not being assigned to the PA security system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fatah_Hawks   (313 words)

  
 PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM, 1993: MIDDLE EASTERN OVERVIEW
The decline is largely the result of a tacit cease-fire between the previous year's primary combatants, Fatah and HAMAS, and a decline in killings of alleged collaborators.
Several prominent Fatah leaders in Gaza were assassinated late in the year, apparently by fellow Palestinians.
Members of Fatah were responsible for the 29 October murder of an Israeli settler, and an alleged member of the Fatah Hawks, a PLO-affiliated group in the Gaza Strip, claimed responsibility for the 31 December murder of two Israelis.
www.members.tripod.com /tva_israel/ME93.HTM   (815 words)

  
 Barghouti ends bid for Palestinian presidency | The San Diego Union-Tribune
The latter group is an offshoot of Fatah and carried out attacks during the first Palestinian uprising in the late 1980s, but had seemingly disappeared.
Barghouti and Abbas belong to the dominant Fatah movement, which was founded by Arafat.
Fatah leaders and many Palestinians feared Barghouti's candidacy would splinter Fatah and the Palestinian public.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041213/news_1n13mideast.html   (968 words)

  
 Four Israelis killed as army post blown up -DAWN - Top Stories; 13 December, 2004
The explosion, claimed by the Palestinian radical Islamic movement Hamas and an armed offshoot of the mainstream Fatah faction, triggered a fierce bout of fighting which left at least one Palestinian civilian dead.
The Fatah Hawks organisation said that one of its fighters, named Mohayed Al Agha, was killed in the operation.
The armed wing of Hamas and the Fatah Hawks said in a joint statement that their fighters had packed 1.5 tonnes of explosives into the tunnel during a "suicide mission".
www.dawn.com /2004/12/13/top13.htm   (456 words)

  
 Dart Cemter for Journalism & Trauma | Headlines
The kidnappers identified themselves as members of the Fatah Hawks, though the article notes that Fatah officials deny any connection between their organization and the kidnappers.
Joshua Hammer, Newsweek's Jerusalem bureau chief, and Gary Knight, a Newsweek photographer, were in the midst of an interview with Fatah Hawk leaders May 29 when the journalists were told that they would be detained to draw attention to unfair coverage of the conflict.
The Fatah Hawks' bellicose language notwithstanding, Hammer says that he never feared for his or Knight's safety.
www.dartcenter.org /articles/headlines/2001/2001_05_30.html   (393 words)

  
 International Middle East Media Center - Fatah Hawks reopen road leading to Rafah crossing
Palestinian gunmen of the Fateh Hawks group reopened on Sunday the road which leads to the Rafah Border Crossing, after closing it for two days in protest to not assigning them to the P.A security devices.
Nassim al-Farra, the media spokesperson of the Fatah Hawks, said that the demands of the group were approved during a meeting with Kayed al-Ghoul, head of the Central Command at the P.A security.
One employee was mildly injured; al-Aqsa brigades’ fighters said that the employee was injured by accident, and evacuated from the governor’s office after the Palestinian police was called to the scene.
www.imemc.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11560&Itemid=1   (709 words)

  
 IsraelFaxx.com newsletter: 1fax0530.txt
The two men were detained with a Palestinian driver and translator in Rafah while interviewing members of the Fatah Hawks, an armed militia of the mainstream Fatah faction.
A statement issued in the name of the Fatah Hawks declared that the American and British people must bear the results of the positions taken by what it called their biased governments.
A Fatah statement said the group would never treat journalists that way or make them pay for their governments' actions.
www.israelfaxx.com /webarchive/2001/05/1fax0530.html   (714 words)

  
 Ar-Raseed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The feared leader of the (Hawks), Ahmed Tabouk, told Israel radio today that he supports the peace agreement and that he and his men want to join the Palestinian police.
Tabouk's vigilantes, known as the Fatah Hawks, have ruled the Casbah, a centuries old city-within- a-city, for the past two years.
Today, the Hawks and groups like them are a challenge for the newly arrived Palestinian police force of Yasser Arafat.
www-personal.umich.edu /~luqman/raseed345b.html   (2615 words)

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