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US
/ˈfɑtə, fəˈtɑ/
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NOUN
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a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups
al-Fatah carried out numerous acts of international terrorism in western Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s
How To Use Fatah In A Sentence
- An al-Fatah official was shot dead in the Bass refugee camp near Tyre on Oct. 16.
- Palestinian rival groups Fatah and Hamas held a series of "icebreaking" meetings ahead of wider reconciliation talks aimed at repairing the gaping rift between the tw WN.com - Articles related to Arabs back direct peace talks when Abbas sees fit
- Tarek Fatah jumped the shark quite some time ago, but his increasing crankiness is still news. Archive 2009-10-01
- Indeed, there are those who believe that one of the main reasons for the creation of the Fayyad government is to emasculate and "domesticate" Fatah. Palestine Blogs aggregator
- A senior official in the Palestinian Fatah Action faction is said to be among the dead.
- When we went there to do reports on this, we found very clearly that the people were not voting for Hamas for any religious or militant views or reasons, but rather because they had become fed up with what they call the institutional corruption of Fatah and the ineffectiveness of Fatah. CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007
- A year later, it bloodily ousted Fatah from the Gaza Strip, the smaller chunk of a proposed Palestinian state.
- A year later, it bloodily ousted Fatah from the Gaza Strip, the smaller chunk of a proposed Palestinian state.
- Al-Fatah's fifth congress opens in Tunis.
- The U.S. Middle East peace effort ran into the buzz saw of Hamas-Fatah internecine strife combined with a Palestinian inability to abandon the narrative of victimhood and vilification of Israel.
