COLUMN: 01-31-2007
Why do our America media companies insist on referring to the Fatah Party of Mahmoud Abbas (and formerly of Yasser Arafat) in Palestine as "moderates." They are nationalists, but they are by no means moderate. The only "moderate" aspect to them is that they are not religious extremists, but calling them this label ignores the fact that most religious groups and parties are truly moderate, without being completely corrupt like Fatah. The best proof of this corruption was the Hamas victory in the Palestinian election of 2006. People didn't vote 75% in favor of Hamas, they votes 75% against the corruption of Fatah. Ever since then, the media keeps talking about a Palestinian "civil war" when the truth is that the corrupt Fatah Party is revolting against democracy because they lost the election. When Hamas was not in power, they respected the authority of the Fatah Party as the elected representatives of the Palestinian people and they played the role of an opposition party. When Fatah lost power, they immediately sent their militias into the streets to grab power in each city since they could no longer control the government ministries.
Fatah was a dead cause to begin with in 1992 when the Oslo peace process rescued them from a forced retirement in Tunisia. (This was after they were evicted from Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan due to losing military conflicts in the 1960's and 1970's.) The Oslo peacemakers and Israel brought this corrupt group of secular nationalists out of exile to negotiate with them because they could more easily be bought off than the Palestinian people on the ground in the first Intifada, who were justifiably demanding their rights after decades of occupation. All of these peace negotiators have long regretted this decision because the obvious outcome occurred: the corrupt group couldn't be trusted and failed to live up to their promises. Rather than accepting their mistakes and dealing with other groups, the new group of peacemakers in the form of the Quartet (UN, EU, USA, and Russia) have decided to continue to deal with these corrupt officials and not talk to any other groups. They use terrorism as an excuse for this, forgetting that Fatah was the originator of Palestinian terrorism in the 1960's and that the religious extremists only adopted the tactic in the 1990's after deciding that it was better than fighting their own corrupt government in the Palestinian Authority.
It's time to cut off the corrupt secular nationalists and deal with the elected representatives of the Palestinian people and finally negotiate a final peace settlement to resolve this unjust situation once and for all.
Fatah was a dead cause to begin with in 1992 when the Oslo peace process rescued them from a forced retirement in Tunisia. (This was after they were evicted from Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan due to losing military conflicts in the 1960's and 1970's.) The Oslo peacemakers and Israel brought this corrupt group of secular nationalists out of exile to negotiate with them because they could more easily be bought off than the Palestinian people on the ground in the first Intifada, who were justifiably demanding their rights after decades of occupation. All of these peace negotiators have long regretted this decision because the obvious outcome occurred: the corrupt group couldn't be trusted and failed to live up to their promises. Rather than accepting their mistakes and dealing with other groups, the new group of peacemakers in the form of the Quartet (UN, EU, USA, and Russia) have decided to continue to deal with these corrupt officials and not talk to any other groups. They use terrorism as an excuse for this, forgetting that Fatah was the originator of Palestinian terrorism in the 1960's and that the religious extremists only adopted the tactic in the 1990's after deciding that it was better than fighting their own corrupt government in the Palestinian Authority.
It's time to cut off the corrupt secular nationalists and deal with the elected representatives of the Palestinian people and finally negotiate a final peace settlement to resolve this unjust situation once and for all.
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