Friday August 7, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

I have been paying close attention to the goings-on at the Fatah Conference in Bethlehem, the first conference since 1989 and the first since the death of Arafat.

Before the Fatah Conference began it was understood that the objective was to elect new leadership and to establish an agenda. The goals of the conference were to solidify Fatah's centrality to the Palestinian electorate and to sideline Hamas.

So far, most of the Conference far has been fraught with internal bickering, jockeying for power and jockeying for political positions.
Almost no decisions have been made and those that have been made are, quite frankly, ludicrous.
For instance, it was unanimously decided to blame Israel for Arafat's death and to establish an international inquiry.
Arafat died in 2004, there have already been a series of inquiries into his death including a Fatah inquiry.

The Fatah delegates can agree on only one point.
Whatever the problem, Israel is to blame.
What a shame.

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