Palestinian President Abbas’ Fatah party is moderate and other childhood fantasies

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While growing up we all believe in fantasies. For years my son believed that there were monsters under his bed at night, my daughter believed that a unicorn would show up for her to ride away. Both of them believed in the tooth fairy (there was one of those, but it was only their dad in a costume). Part of the growing process is that we realize that these childish myths are not real by any means.

Surprisingly there is one childish myth that many otherwise intelligent adults cling on to. That's the myth that Palestinian President Abbas’ Fatah Party is moderate. People ignore what Abbas' party says and does so they can cling on to the myth that they want peace. Allow me to suggest you are more likely to look up into the sky and see a winged flying horse with a single horn, than see a moderate Fatah.

Allow me to give you an example. During the 2009 Fatah convention, senior Fatah member Rafik Natsheh announced that their group will never recognize Israel, and will continue to call for war against Israel.

“Fatah does not recognize Israel's right to exist, nor have we ever asked others to do so.”

Fatah has never stopped performing terrorist acts against Israeli citizens, Fatah claimed credit for the recent attack in Itamar Israel where, two terrorists slipped into the house of the Fogel family, murdered both parents, two of their sons and slashed their infant daughter’s throat. Only they didn't call it Fatah.

Like most terrorist groups Fatah has a scam that governments and media buys into. It’s called a "military wing." Fatah's military wing is called the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Whenever they carry out a new attack on innocent civilians, it is the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades who carries it out. The group is part of Fatah, but because they have a different name, Fatah gets a pass. It would be like President Obama getting on the television to announce that the United States’ "military wing" was responsible for killing Bin Laden.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades has another role, to make the more radical statements so President Abbas can preserve his role as a faux-peacemaker. Therefore Abbas did not say anything about the death of Bin Laden his "military wing" handled it for him.

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