Fatah Research

Fatah is an English translation of “Palestine National Liberation Movement” in Arabic language.It is the political organization recognized by international community as representing the interests of the Palestinian people.Fatah was prepared to establish in Egypt in 1956 by Yasser Arafat and other young Palestinian patriots,and was formally established in Kuwait in 1959.This organization insisted on the independence of the cause of Palestine’s liberation and advocated that the only way to realize the establishment of a Palestinian state was by means of force at the beginning of its founding.In 1965,Fatah fired the first shot against Israel,which was the inevitable choice of the Palestinians when their struggle against Israel was at a low ebb,and it was also the unfair response of the international community to the Israeli-Palestinian issue.Fatah’s organization scale has increased rapidly and its influence in the Palestinian area has been increasing day by day since its armed struggle against Israel.The Palestine Liberation Organization was established in 1964,and Fatah joined it in 1967 and quickly became the largest political faction.In 1968,the weak Fatah defeated the strong invading Israeli army in the Battle of Karama.Fatah’s international status and political influence increased.with its role in boosting the morale of Arab countries in the struggle against Israel.In 1969,Fatah won the internal election of the PLO,and Arafat became the Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee.Since then,Fatah’s principles and policies have formally become the PLO’s belief program and code of conduct.The rapid expansion of Fatah’s strength after the Battle of Karama,to a certain extent,exceeded the maximum it could bear.Behind the growing influence of Fatah,there are crises such as the prominence of internal organizational contradictions,the intensification of political differences and blind self-confidence.Under the cover of these crises,frequent interference in the deviant acts of sovereignty of other countries has made the relationship between Arab countries and Fatah increasingly distant and eventually led to bloody conflicts with Jordan.Fatah suffered a setback.Faced with internal and external pressure,Fatah chose to extricate himself from the predicament by means of terrorism and launched or participated in a number of terrorist attacks against Arab countries,Israel and Western countries.However,terrorism,which is inversely proportional to input and output,is undoubtedly a double-edged sword.While Fatah has gained certain development by means of terrorism,suspicion from Arab countries,condemnation from the international community and even more violent retaliation from Israel have ensued.Fatah has lost not only external trust but also internal trust.The people’s hearts of the Ministry,as well as the justice on which the cause of Palestine’s liberation depends for its existence and development,are also the important reasons why Fatah’s legitimate status and voice in the Palestine-Israel issue andthe Middle East peace process are repeatedly questioned in the future.Fatah did not learn from the experience and lessons against Jordan While when practicing terrorism.Instead of finding a way to live in harmony with Arab countries,Fatah increasingly ignored and interfered in the internal affairs of other countries,participated in and intensified regional conflicts,which eventually triggered the Lebanese civil war.Lebanon’s civil war has led to a worse living environment for Fatah.Arab countries are more suspicious of Fatah,and the international image has fallen sharply.The continuity of terrorist attacks prompted Israel to launch a Lebanese war in 1982 aimed at eliminating the Palestinian armed forces in Lebanon,which also devastated Fatah,threatened to collapse its organizational structure and forced a shift towards easing Israeli policy.In 1987,the first major Palestinian uprising against the Israeli tyranny broke out in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,which lasted for a long time and had a wide range of influence.It not only forced Israel to face up to the rights of the Palestinians,but also brought Fatah back to life.Fatah declared the founding of a Palestinian state in 1988,amid heightened Palestinian nationalism.In the 1990 s,peace and development became the theme of the times,which provided a good external opportunity for the Palestine-Israel issue to move towards a political solution.Fatah conformed to the historical trend and signed the Oslo Accord with Israel,making the political settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli issue a basic principle recognized by both sides and even the international community,making terrorism,which has prevailed in the Middle East for many years,a target of public criticism for a time,and solving the religious,territorial and national disputes in other parts of the world by peaceful means.Duan provides the most real example and the best evidence,thus opening a new chapter in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process.At the same time,the Oslo Accord has also promoted the establishment of a Palestinian self-government,and the Palestinians have taken a solid step on the road to the establishment of an entity state.However,the deep-rooted contradiction between Palestine and Israel,the internal disagreement on the policy of easing Israel,the strong rise of Hamas,the Islamic fundamentalist organization,led to the lack of adequate implementation of Fatah’s internal and foreign policies,and the re-emergence of Israel’s right-wing government,which led to the re-emergence of the peace process between Palestine and Israel.Degree paralysis.In 2004,when Arafat died of illness,Fatah factions quickly launched a game in the face of a power vacuum.This kind of political internal friction not only severely restricts the development of the organization itself,puts Fatah in a disadvantage in the struggle against Hamas for the supreme power of Palestine,but also seriously discredits Fatah’s international and domestic image and weakens Fatah’s role as a political entity in the international community.With the loss of diplomatic voice,Fatah’sdiplomatic struggle with Israel has become more decadent,and the complex international situation has made the future of Fatah and Palestine more worrying.It is the international community that is closely related to Fatah’s history and the trend of the Palestinian-Israeli issue.The United States has long pursued double standards on the issue of Palestinian-Israeli problem,which is the best medium for the United States to export its ideology and American-style values in the Middle East.In addition,the changes in the international Structure and even the personal preferences and dislikes of the President have resulted in the lack of fairness and stability of the U.S.policy on Palestinian-Israeli Issue and has seriously damaged the relationship between the United States and Fatah.The Soviet Union once played the role of an ally in the development of Fatah,but its assistance to Fatah was often politically conditioned to compete with the United States for interests in the Middle East.This self-interested foreign policy became the greatest estrangement between the Soviet Union and Fatah.There are honeymoon and cold war periods,but overall,the overall trend of bilateral relations has not changed.After reform and opening up,China continues to support Fatah’s just cause,but also plays an irreplaceable and constructive role on the Palestinian-Israeli issue.Arab countries have made contributions to the cause of Palestinian liberation in history.Contribution,but the Arab countries’ interference in Fatah and the Palestine-Israel issue for their own interests has always been the main obstacle to the bilateral relations;the United Nations once has played the role of “producer” of conflicts on the Palestine-Israel issue,while with the rise of the third world power and the increasing trend of world multipolarity,the United Nations has begun to play a role.The role of “mediator” and“facilitator” in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and peace talks has been constantly improving relations with Fatah,and the United Nations has thus become an indispensable external pusher for the current Palestinian-Israeli issue and the internationally recognized arbitration core of the Palestinian-Israeli issue.European countries have been followers of the U.S.Palestinian-Israeli policy,but accompanied by Europe.With the acceleration of the integration process,the independence of the European Union’s Palestinian-Israeli policy has been strengthened,and its relationship with Fatah has been continuously improved,especially with regard to the livelihood of the Palestinian people,which provides a new way of thinking for the solution of the Palestinian-Israeli problem.