[Marxism] Fatah: Eject the traitors from your ranks

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Fatah meets secretly with Israeli occupiers - "our  common enemy is Hamas"
by Khaled Amayreh / October 7th, 2008 
 
The recent revelations by an Israeli journalist about a secret meeting  
between high-ranking Palestinian security chiefs and the commanders of the  
Israeli 
occupation army, which reportedly took place at the Jewish colony of  Beit El 
near Ramallah in September, has shocked the Palestinian community  here.  
According to Israeli journalist Nahom Barnea, the Palestinian  officers told 
their Israeli âcolleaguesâ that âwe have no conflictâ and that âwe  
have only 
one common enemy which is Hamas.â  Barnea also revealed that  Palestinian 
security chiefs, whom he mentioned by name, asked their âIsraeli  
colleaguesâ to â
equip us with weaponsâ in order to âre-conquer Gaza.â   Barnea, who 
attended 
the meeting after receiving the Palestinian participantsâ  consent, reported 
that the Palestinians sought to impress the Israeli security  chiefs by 
briefing 
them on aggressive measures the PA security agencies had been  carrying out 
against Hamasâ civilian infrastructure, including charities and  civil 
society 
organizations.  The Palestinian security chiefs even bragged  about raiding 
mosques as part of their efforts to hound and harass Hamas. 
Interestingly, reports and comments on the âBeit El meetingâ were censored 
by  the PA-run and PA-influenced media, including the three main daily 
newspapers,  Al-Quds, al-Ayyam, and al-Hayatul Jadida as well as by the 
European-funded Maan  News Agency, which has been effectively taken over by the 
Fatah  
organization.  Indeed, had it not been for the coverage of the event by  some 
foreign-based satellite TV stations such as al-Jazeera as well as some  
internet 
sites, most Palestinians here wouldnât have heard about that  meeting.  The 
Beit 
El scandal is most likely just one of many meetings of  âsecurity coordination
â between the PA and Israel. Indeed, one could argue with  little 
exaggeration that the Palestinian security agencies have been more or  less 
working in 
concert with the Israeli occupation army in the West Bank. 
Some Palestinian villagers have reported that they saw Israeli soldiers and  
Palestinian soldiers jointly carrying out raids and arrests in the northern 
West  Bank.  Moreover, it is widely believed that the closure by Israel of  
numerous Palestinian schools, orphanages, charities and businesses in the West  
Bank was carried out in close coordination with the Israeli army.  The PA  
functionaries and operatives routinely deny suggestions that the PA is  
collaborating with Israel against its own people.  However, there is  
irrefutable 
evidence suggesting that the PA is not telling the truth. The daily  arrests of 
Palestinian activists by both Israeli and PA security agencies are  very 
telling, 
to say the least. 
It may be a bit reassuring that some Fatah leaders in the West Bank, such as  
Qaddura Fares, have spoken out against the scandalous encounter at Beit El,  
describing the security chiefs involved as âtraitors who have nothing to do  
Fatah.â  However, it remains really disturbing that these men committed a  
disgraceful act with total impunity.  In a recent interview with the  
London-based 
al Hewar TV, Fares urged the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah to  fire 
these security chiefs. 
However, one is still deeply disquieted by the fact that the Fatah  
organization, nearly in its entirety, been reticent and done next to nothing to 
 
punish, expose or even rebuke these men who have committed what amounts to be  
national apostasy.  To be sure, Fatah is not a monolithic movement, neither  
ideologically nor even politically. Nonetheless, there are a lot of honest and  
patriotic people within the movement.  We also understand that the good  people 
within Fatah, who probably constitute the majority, are being  marginalized, 
isolated and impoverished financially by the Oslo gang which has  the money and 
the political backing by Israel and the United States.   However, Fatah canât 
be forgiven for allowing, even passively, these  money-grabbing opportunists 
and hangers-on to besmirch a movement that has  produced people like Abu Ammar 
and Abu Jihad and thousands of martyrs who lived  and died for Palestine. 
Treason is treason whether committed by Fatah or the Southern Lebanon Army or 
 by the infamous village leagues.  And there is no real difference between a  
Shin Beth agent who leads Israeli death squads to the whereabouts of a  
Palestinian freedom fighter and a PA security officer who carries out Israeli  
instructions under the disgraceful rubric of security coordination.   Needless 
to 
say, a Palestinian security chief who tells the commanders of the  Israeli 
occupation army that âwe have common interests, common goals, and common  
enemiesâ
 is a traitor par excellence who should be immediately arrested and  
prosecuted for grand treasons.  Just imagine an Israeli officer telling a  
Palestinian 
security chief, for example, that âwe have one enemy, it is the  Jewish 
settlers.â Would such a proverbial officer stay on his job for 24  hours? 
It is therefore imperative that Fatah press and pressure its top leadership,  
which is the leadership of the Palestinian Authority, to launch a speedy  
investigation into what happened at the Beit El meeting and sack those security 
 
chiefs who have brought shame and infamy to decades of Palestinian struggle 
for  liberty. Failing to act for whatever reason would only mean that Fatah is  
effectively being Zionized by allowing itself to be infiltrated and even taken 
 over by Israeli agents who claim to be serving Palestinian national 
interests  while in reality serving the interests of our enemy, Israel.   
Unfortunately, we canât give the top Fatah leadership the benefit of the 
doubt  since it 
is likely that the Beit El meeting took place with its full knowledge,  
approval and even blessing.  This is probably what emboldened those  security 
chiefs 
and made them attend the meeting and say what they reportedly  said with 
brazen disregard to Palestinian national dignity. The attendance of  the 
Israeli 
journalist, whom they knew would disseminate the details of their  convivial 
meeting with the Israeli occupation officers, also tells us much about  the 
mental level of these people. 
Finally, one is really at loss trying to understand how Fatah is really  
sincere about national reconciliation with Hamas at a time when Fatahâs men 
tell  
Israeli security chiefs that âHamas is the enemyâ and âgive us weapons 
and  
training to re-conquer Gaza.â  In short, Fatah has to choose either  
reconciliation with Hamas or cordial relations with Israel, the occupier of our 
 country 
and tormentor of our people.  It canât choose  both.

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