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Fatah is frequently referred to as the 'Military wing of the PLO'. Why is this not mentioned on this page? It is fine to describe how it is politically situated, but if we are in fact discussing a military organization, why step so carefully around that point?
- Avriette
- Actually I've never heard of that being a description of Al-Fatah,which is only one of the armed factions in the PLO.(And I'm speaking as someone who regards even the assertion that the Arabs of geographic Palestine are a bona fide nationality is an act of terrorism).What baffles me about this article is the reference to Mahmoud Abbas as the new chairman after Arafat's death.The linked article on Farouk Kaddoumi says that he is chairman of both the PLO and Fatah,but I believe the actual status is that Abbas is chairman of the PLO and Kaddoumi chairman of Fatah.--Louis E./le@put.com/12.144.5.2 18:40, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The NPOV problems of this page go beyond that, in the other direction. Fatah is a political party and organization, not simply a 'military wing' of anything. An accurate description of Fatah from an NPOV would not focus solely on where it gets weapons from or who it has trained. Nor would it include the sentance "Fatah operates under the official PLO charter which still calls not only for the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip, but the complete eradication of Israeli existance," which has little to do with Fatah (as opposed to the PLO; I'm sure the accuracy of this assertion is being disputed on the PLO talk page as well). The purpose of this article as written is clearly to paint Fatah in as negative a light as possible and provide information helpful in condemning Fatah, not to elucidate Fatah's history, politics, internal organization, political and social activities, constituencies, ideologies, place in Palestinian politics and society, etc.
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