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or all the supporters of Palestine around the world, no effort on behalf of the Palestinian people is serious or effective if it does not target the Israeli occupation and their Palestinian collaborators. Activists for Palestine can't avoid to target and condemn the collaborationist regime in Ramallah. This is like opposing the Nazis but not opposing the Nazi collaborators. The PA collaborators have successfully convinced a few in the solidarity movement to avoid condemnation of the PA in the name of Palestinian unity. There is no unity, and there should not be unity, if it means an alliance with or recognition of the PA collaborationist regime. And what does Hamas do? Hamas never acts intelligently, in this matter or in any matter. I saw a Hamas official criticizing the PA stance in Geneva and then in the same statement express determination to continue the dialogue with Fath in Cairo. The struggle for Palestine has to take a new shape, and new language should be devised. People who have been long time supporters for Palestine should be aware that the Fath Movement today is different from the one that existed in the 1960s and 1970s. Fath is no more than armed collaborationist gangs that kill the Palestinian people on behalf of the Israeli state to minimize deaths to the occupiers.

I was reading the statement of the Executive Committee of the PLO yesterday. And I saw one of the most corrupt politicians, `Abdur-Rahim Malluh, of the PFLP, attending as a representative of his non-existent organization. The statement was most likely prepared in advanced by Fath henchmen. The presence of the PFLP's representative was significant. Let us get this straight: there is no PFLP. There are three PFLPs: there is a collaborationist wing of the PFLP that is represented by Malluh and is controlled by henchmen of Abu Mazen; there is a dedicated wing represented by Ahmad Sa`dat who remains in jail because Sa`dat foolishly accepted Arafat's word of honor; and there is a Damascus branch that is rejectionist and is opposed to Oslo and its consequences and was closest to Habash until his last days. Mind you: each faction has five or six members, at most. There is no PFLP: there is no one person who can mobilize more than 4 people in that organization. You may ask why would the Damascus branch of the PFLP remains silent about Malluh's surrender to Fath's collaborationist clique. Answer is simple: membership in the PLO brings some money to the cash strapped PFLP. The organization (like the DFLP) should dissolve itself. It has no purpose or existence anymore. Its leader in Lebanon, Marwn `Abdul-`Al, did not dare criticize the Lebanese government for the massacre in Nahr Al-Barid. Go home, o PFLP. Go home. There is nobody left anymore. And turn off the light on the way out, and let Malluh join one of the various Fath armed gangs. (Isn't his son a member of Abu Mazen's collaborationist police?)

Chief Israeli collaborator/gangster, Muhammad Dahlan now controls Fath. He now controls 61 members of the 80 members Revolutionary Council. It is funny that a leading body of the chief collaborationist arm of the Israeli occupation uses the name "Revolutionary Council." As soon as the results of week-long counting of ballots for the RC were announced, Dahlan fled to Cairo: the man is terrified of his own people and rarely stays in the West Bank. I noticed that the new Revolutionary Council included a representative of the Hillis gang in Gaza (the Dahlan henchmen who fled in their underwear).

There is a lot about the Fath circus that you don't read about in Western accounts. Do you know that Abu Mazen "presidential guards"--don't you like the name about the guards protecting a "president" whose term expired months ago?--have beaten and even shot at senior Fath leaders when they spoke out of "line" or when they criticized Abu Mazen. This is a circus that would make the Ba`th very proud. And the funny thing about the affair is that the two factions that are feuding (the Arafatist faction led by Abu `Ala' and the Dahlanist faction led by Dahlan) are both equally corrupt and collaborationist. But in today's meeeting Dahlan clashed with Abu Mazen's lietenants, like Abu At-Tayyib.

In my youth, the lousy Fath Movement was dubbed "the spinal cord" of the Palestinian Revolution. Today, it would be safe to describe the Fath Movement as "the spinal cord" of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Abu Mazen is a habitual liar: since his early and later days. He has been saying that Israel has allowed all Palestinian members of Fath to attend the conference of the movement. He is lying of course. Israel has only allowed the Dahlanist members of Fath to enter the West Bank to attend the conference. Fath regional leader in Lebanon, Munir Al-Maqdah, for example, has been banned by Israel because he has voiced opinion in support of the right of return. I strongly believe that you can't oppose the Israeli occupation of Palestine without opposing its arm: the Fath movement.