Fatah erkänner inte Israels rätt att existera

Fatah erkänner inte Israels rätt att existera och vi har aldrig krävt att andra (Hamas) skall göra det, säger Rafik Natsheh, medarbetare till Abbas.
Den väpnade kampen mot Israel kommer aldrig att upphöra, fortsätter han.
Detta är alltså en röst från Abbas "moderata" Fatahparti som talar.
Fatah har makten i de Palestinska myndigheterna på västbanken. De understöds ekonomiskt och politiskt av västvärlden och USA tränar deras säkerhetsstyrkor.

'Fatah has never recognized Israel' (Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post)
Fatah has never recognized Israel's right to exist and it has no intention of ever doing so, a veteran senior leader of the Western-backed faction said on Wednesday.
Rafik Natsheh, member of the Fatah Central Committee who also serves as chairman of the faction's disciplinary "court," is the second senior official in recent months to make similar statements regarding Israel.
"Fatah does not recognize Israel's right to exist," Natsheh said, "nor have we ever asked others to do so." His comments, which appeared in an interview with Al-Quds Al-Arabi, came in response to reports according to which Fatah had asked Hamas to recognize Israel as a precondition for the establishment of a Palestinian unity government.
"All these reports about recognizing Israel are false," Natsheh, who is closely associated with PA President Mahmoud Abbas, said. "It's all media nonsense. We don't ask other factions to recognize Israel because we in Fatah have never recognized Israel."
Asked about calls for dropping the reference to armed struggle from Fatah's charter, Natsheh said: "Let all the collaborators [with Israel] and those who are deluding themselves hear that this will never happen. We'll meet at the conference [in Bethlehem]."
Natsheh stressed that neither Fatah nor the Palestinians would ever relinquish the armed struggle against Israel "no matter how long the occupation continues." He said that Fatah, at the upcoming conference, would reiterate its adherence to the option of pursuing "all forms" of an armed struggle against Israel. "