Fatah Research Paper

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Fatah thinks that they deserve their own home and there goal is to finally get a Palestinian State but they are also willing to negotiate. They have even led to peace-talks resolving the two-state issue. Fatah has major political rivals like Hamas, who won a decisive majority in the Palestinian Parliament. This organization was created with the long-term goal of wresting Palestine from the control of Israel by waging low intensity guerrilla warfare. Fatah has played a very important role in the Arab-Israeli conflict by opposing Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), arguably the largest terrorist group in the world, and promoting an armed struggle against Israel.
Fatah is a major Palestinian political party. It began in the year 1965, as the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (PNLM). Yasser Arafat was the founder and the leader of Fatah. He created this successful and growing organization with the help of a few friends from Algeria. Fatah started terrorist attacks in January 1965, attacking Israeli targets with the help of Syria. The word Fatah is in fact a reverse acronym, it stands for the Arabic Harekat at-Tahrir al-Wataniyyeh al-Falastiniyyeh. This means conquest by means of “jihad”, islamic holy war. The flag has a grenade, two crossed rifles, and also a map of Israel to represent the “armed struggle” Fatah has …show more content…

They have been fighting for majority of the people and in July, 2007 the Palestinian Civil War finally occurred. The aftermath of the battle was that Fatah and Hamas separated the people. Hamas took 1.5 million of the people and Fatah took the rest, 2.5 million of the people. Since this war, Hamas and Fatah have been in a state of conflict for many more years. They have split up into two territories, Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip and that left Fatah with the West Bank. In 2000, the two factions began fighting each other just as the Palestinians fought a war with

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