Fatah leaders have declared that the group will never agree to recognise Israel’s right to exist – and that it will continue to wage war against the Jewish homeland.
“Fatah does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, nor have we ever asked others to do so,” said senior Fatah member Rafik Natsheh, a close associate of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
In an interview with the pan-Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Natsheh scorned reports that Fatah had called on Hamas to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist: “It’s all media nonsense. We don’t ask other factions to recognize Israel; we ourselves do not recognize Israel.”
Fatah runs the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria. The Palestinian Authority does recognise Israel; if it didn’t it would be ‘unable to serve the Palestinian people,” Natsheh explained. However, Fatah does not have such constraints.
Fatah will never stop attacking Israel. Natsheh stated: “Let those who are deluding themselves hear: this will never happen.”
A second senior Fatah member, Azzam el-Ahmed, agreed that Fatah would not drop its call to wage war on Israel.
Natsheh and Ahmed gave interviews in advance of the Fatah general assembly in early August, in which the organization will meet to discuss its goals and to hold elections. The meeting will be the first in approximately 20 years.
A Jew With A View 
The US sent $200 million to the Palestinian Authority. Clinton has been assured that President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad “have put in place the foundations of a responsible, transparent, accountable government.” I’m not getting that warm fuzzy feeling.
T&P – as usual I agree with you entirely 🙂
The people who insist Israel must ‘make peace’ with Fatah, Hamas, et al, never manage to answer the basic question of HOW ON EARTH anyone can ‘make peace’ with people committed to their destruction!!!
Well, I can’t say I am surprised by these statements. I’m surprised by people who don’t see this (or who keeps denying it) and by MSM, who keep not publishing these news… 😦