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Text Box: Your signed support will give courage to Knesset Members to abandon their endorsement of this government’s suicidal policies. Text Box: Click to SIGN Keep Israel Strong!6Text Box: Around 1969-70, the PLO (an organization created in 1964) was swallowed by Al Fatah, and since then PLO = Al Fatah. People are often told that Al Fatah is the military wing of the PLO. That would be bad enough. In fact, however, since 1969-70, when Fatah swallowed the PLO (but keeping the name), PLO = Al Fatah. Fatah makes all the decisions, and the leader of the PLO (Yasser Arafat, then Mahmoud Abbas) is always simultaneously the leader of Al Fatah. “By [1970]…the splinterization of the guerilla ranks largely dictated the altered nature of their offensive against Israel. Nominally, most of them belonged to an umbrella coordinating federation, the Palestine Liberation Organization. Yet this prewar, Egyptian-dominated group had been seriously crippled by the June debacle, and its leader, Ahmed Shukeiry, had been forced into retirement. Since then, the PLO had experienced less a revival than a total reincarnation of membership and purpose under the leadership of Yasser Arafat. Consisting ostensibly of representatives of all guerilla organizations, the PLO in its resurrected form was almost entirely Fatah-dominated, and Arafat himself served as president of its executive. In this capacity he was invited to attend meetings of the Arab League, and won extensive subsidies from the oil-rich governments of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf.” [ Sachar, H. 1982. A history of Israel: From the rise of Zionism to our time. New York: Knopf., p.698. (emphasis added) ] People are also told that Fatah/PLO is secular, but in fact their ideology was inherited from Hajj Amin al Husseini, and is therfore jihadist, the same as Hamas. Consider what Yasser Arafat said in May 1994, right as the Oslo Process was getting off the ground: “A tape-recording has surfaced of PLO leader Yasser Arafat speaking to Moslem followers… Mr. Arafat was exhorting his followers to prosecute a ‘jihad ... to liberate Jerusalem’. Mr. Arafat does not deny the tape’s authenticity… [His followers] would have taken it to mean that the peace process was just a stratagem: a Trojan Horse which should now be exploited with maximum violence.” [ Evening Standard (London) May 19, 1994; SECTION: Pg. 9; LENGTH: 907 words; HEADLINE: A NEW KIND OF JIHAD ]