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“Moderate” Fatah leader calls for “armed uprising” against Israel

Jan 27, 2014 3:47 pm By Robert Spencer

Let the Third Intifada commence.

— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) February 25, 2013

“Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas…” — Barack Obama, March 21, 2013

“Fatah Leader Calls for ‘Armed Uprising,’” by Maayana Miskin for Israel National News, January 26:

A senior member of Fatah, the party headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has called to renew terrorist attacks on Israel, Maariv/nrg reports.

Fatah Central Committee member Tawfik Tirawi reportedly told Al-Miadin that there will be no new Arab state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza in the near future, and not even in 20 years. For that reason, he said, Fatah must resume the “violent uprising” against Israel – meaning terrorism.

“That’s the only way things will change,” he argued.

Fatah must “join all of the organizations, both those operating under the Palestinian Authority, and those outside it,” he added, in an apparent reference to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Hamas remains openly committed to obliterating Israel, while Islamic Jihad recently threatened to resume suicide bombings.

Tirawi argued that Fatah never truly abandoned terrorism. “Fatah never abandoned any form of action, including armed resistance,” he insisted.

Tirawi clarified that he is pessimistic regarding the chances of establishing a PA-led Arab state through negotiations because he believes the PA will reject any compromise deal of the type offered by United States Secretary of State John Kerry.

PA leaders have repeatedly declared that they are unwilling to compromise on their demands, which include the expulsion of all Israeli Jews from land over the 1949 armistice line, sole control of the Temple Mount – Judaism’s holiest site, the “right of return” for millions of Arabs descended from those who left Israel in 1948, the release of all terrorists, and the right to import weapons.

This is the latest in a string of incendiary statements by senior Fatah officials – statements which belie the PA’s official stance in undertaking negotiations with Israel.

Just a few days ago, the Fatah party’s official Facebook page featured a video by the group’s armed wing – the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – in which it threatened to bomb Tel Aviv and promised to continue rocket attacks from Gaza.

Earlier this month, Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki told Syrian state TV that the PA’s participation in US-brokered talks is part of a wider strategy to destroy Israel, and that whatever concessions it receives through diplomatic means will simply be the “first step” in achieving that long-term goal.

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  1. Defcon 4 says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    Feinstein (D, CA) assured me Fatah, unlike Hamas, was moderate and peaceful.

  2. Wellington says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 5:43 pm

    I long for an American President who will describe Fatah for the terrorist organization that it is, an entity which seeks the total destruction of Israel, just as does Hamas, but with a few cosmetic changes here and there (like having its chief representative wearing a Western suit and saying a few soothing words in English from time to time) in order to get more jizya from the West. And anyone seeking the destruction of Israel, knowingly or unknowingly, seeks, in effect, the destruction of all the West. This is why support of Israel, above all reasons, is an imperative for those who value Western Civilization (a diminishing breed sad to say).

    Now, if Bush 43 failed here regarding Hamas and its “worth,” and he basically did (to his credit, though, Bush did condition a Palestinian state alongside Israel as one that had to unambiguosly forego terrorism, would be a real democracy, would be demilitarized and which would unconditionally recognize Israel {talk about fantasy stuff, eh?}), there is zero hope that the doofus presently occupying the Oval Office ever will. This particularly egregious doofus, let’s not forget, thinks “Austrian” is a language and that the term “Navy corpsmen” should be pronounced “Navy corpsemen” and who, completely irresponsibly, opined about two ongoing criminal investigations—the Professor Gates farce and the Zimmerman tragedy, even though the guy is a Harvard Law graduate and taught constitutional law (the overall point I’m driving home here about Obama is tha he is an amazingly ignorant man irrespective of his intentions, possessed quite arguably of the single most overrated intellect in our time).

    As for Reza Aslan, he is the person, yet once again, who can be counted on regularly for consistency——consistency of being an eternal ass. Oh yeah, Aslan can always be counted on for this. What a buffoon. But the fact that the Douglas Hydes of the world don’t comprehend this is itself a major problem. Ah, problems aplenty out there, that’s for sure.

    • JRS says

      Jan 28, 2014 at 10:03 am

      We can all thank affirmative action for somecHarvard degrees. It has outlived any usefulness it might have once had.

  3. mortimer says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 7:52 pm

    Aslan a buffoon? Yes, a sophomoric, sniggering, ayatollah-loving, terrorist-loving buffoon. An anti-Semitic, anti-Western buffoon. He loves all the material and social blessings that the philosophy of freedom can bestow and yet he despises and combats freedom so he may deny everything he enjoys to others.

  4. gravenimage says

    Jan 27, 2014 at 11:21 pm

    “Moderate” Fatah leader calls for “armed uprising” against Israel
    ……………………………..

    Well, of course he did. The fact is that Fatah is just as genocidal as is Hamas. It is only hopeful Infidels whop want to believe that Fatah is “moderate”.

  5. Charli Main says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 4:51 am

    The Nazi salutes of the descendants of the Muslim invaders of Palestine just about says it all.
    Nazi/Muslim confederation -two sides of the same coin

  6. exsgtbrown says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 5:48 am

    moderate Muslims?

    http://4freedoms.com/group/argumentation/forum/topics/hugh-fitzgerald-2004-on-moderate-muslims

  7. Tzipporah says

    Jan 28, 2014 at 6:10 am

    Even the Egyptian Army is more awake to the TRUTH than the current US Administration. Fatah is no different from Hamas, except superficially. They both want to destroy Jews and Israel. The same in Iran, a new President who knows how to act in public but secretly nothing has changed, except a better deceiver. Our leaders are useless in creating Peace and are creating chaos wherever they go. Not only Muslims are liars and deceivers, as we have the same with the Radical Progressives in Power in the USA.

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