Forward for United Struggle: Fatah for reconciliation with Hamas

-          By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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It may be a bit early to inform the world about the possible reconciliation of two Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas to come together on a unified freedom platform to push forward their sovereignty agenda to regain the lost territories to fascist Zionist regime. But it appears Fatah seems to have realized its folly of courting danger in playing flute along with its arch enemy- the Jews which resulted in the recent holocaust of Palestinians in Gaza strip and the unrelenting settlement constructions in West Bank by the occupying Jews.  Whether in Hamas or Fatah, each Muslim, killed in Palestine by the terror Israeli forces, is a Palestinian. Freedom struggle requires a unified forum, but the establishment of two political wings in occupied Palestine to appease the “democracy lords” in the west is fatal mistake, though. The enemies of Palestinians have easily sued the divide to pursue their anti-Palestine goal.

The recent Fatah Congress in West bank seems to have made up its mind world towards a unified Palestinian freedom forum to fight forcefully to regain sovereignty form the occupiers. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction elected a new party assembly on 14 August in a further move to rejuvenate the movement after overhauling its main executive body. Abbas also announced a Central Committee line-up that included several younger members and unseated a number of veteran "old guard" contemporaries of the late Yasser Arafat. The 128-seat Revolutionary Council, which convenes every three months, is charged with implementing resolutions of the congress and monitoring the performance of the Central Committee. Some 600 candidates competed for 80 open places on the Revolutionary Council at Fatah's first congress in 20 years, which began in Bethlehem on Aug 4.

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Palestinians of the Diaspora came to Bethlehem from more than 80 countries for the 44-year-old movement's first convention on home soil.Many of the resolutions adopted by Fatah Congress in August 2009 reflect a newly robust political agenda, which took Abbas by surprise and greatly displeased the Israelis with an emphasis on the legitimacy of all forms of resistance (including re-igniting the intifada), antipathy towards Israel and rapprochement with Hamas in the interest of strength through unity. Elections for the Central and Revolutionary Councils saw many of the so-called ‘old guard’ dismissed and a much needed injection of new blood into tired old veins with 14 out of 18 members of the executive Central Council taking their seats for the first time. One of the notable newly elected members of the Central Council is Marwan Barghouti, who is currently in jail in Israel for his role in the intifada.

Fatah members believe their secular, Western-backed group is now better placed to seek reconciliation with the rival, Islamist group Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip, restoring unity to the divided Palestinian nationalist cause. Reinforcement of Fatah, battered in parliamentary polls by Hamas in 2006 because of its perceived corruption, cronyism and complacency, may also strengthen Abbas's hand in talks with Israel as U.S. President Barack Obama readies a new peace plan.   

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Israeli terror intelligence Mossad is keeping guard of the “great Palestinian divide” by infiltrating into their ranks and files and making many Palestinians as their local agents on both sides. As if the divisions are not enough, now there are groups inside Hamas to further weaken the Palestine cause. Hamas, which controls Gaza, launched a bloody crackdown on the group, Jund Ansar Allah (Army of the Helpers of God) led by Abdul-Latif Moussa after it declared an "Islamic emirate". Hamas considers these Israeli Zionist declarations [of an Islamic emirate] are aimed towards incitement against the Gaza Strip and an attempt at recruiting an international alliance against the Gaza Strip. Hamas fighters on Aug 14 fired rocket-propelled grenades at Ibn-Taymiyah mosque, where at least 100 Jund Ansar Allah supporters were holed up. Scores were injured in the attack, on a mosque in Rafah, near the Egypt border. Hamas also stormed Moussa's house.  

Mossad, like other state secret agencies, play havoc in Palestine. Possibly under the impact of the Mossad destructive and divisional activities inside Palestinian Territories, Moussa and his armed supporters had sworn to fight to the death rather than hand over authority of the mosque to Hamas. The group is very critical of Hamas, which controls Gaza in 2007 after the poll, accusing the Islamist group of not being Islamist enough. The ruling Hamas has forbidden anyone except what it describes as Hamas security personnel from carrying weapons in Gaza.

- By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Specialist on State Terrorism

Independent Researcher in International Affairs, the only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation in South Asia.