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Fatah

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(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Al Fatah a Palestinian terrorist organization, founded in 1956, with the aim of destroying the state of Israel: it has splintered into rival factions since 1988

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Fatah - a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups; "al-Fatah carried out numerous acts of international terrorism in western Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s"

al-Asifa, al-Fatah

act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear

Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO - a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine; when formed in 1964 it was a terrorist organization dominated by Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman; received recognition by the United Nations and by Arab states in 1974 as a government in exile; has played a largely political role since the creation of the Palestine National Authority

Israel, State of Israel, Yisrael, Zion, Sion - Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine

Palestine - a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Jordan - an Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea

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Published on Friday, 03 January 2014 14:25 PNN/ Exclusive 49 years is the age of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement Fatah, the movement that returned Palestine to the World's political map after years of defeat and oppression.

Abu Alia also said that the important option for Fatah is through the popular resistance, stressing that Fatah can regain its role on ground level and that the occupier must learn that the Palestinian people rejects the occupation, and will confront the occupiers by all means in order to remove them from Palestinian territory.

Abu Alia stressed that Israel is dealing carefully with Fatah because it realizes that this movement is capable of returning to the resistance against the occupation and the Al-Aqsa intifada is a proof of it.