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‖ Fatah, n. Islam.|ˈfætə|
Also with def. article prefixed Al Fatah.
[Arab. reverse vocalized acronym of the initial letters of ḥarakat taḥrīr Filasṭīn movement for the liberation of Palestine.
The reverse form of the acronym, vocalized to give the sense ‘victory’ and echoing Koranic references to the victory of the faithful (al-)fatḥ, was preferred to the vocalized acronym ḥtf death.]
A Palestinian political organization, founded in Cairo in 1957 by Yasir Arafat (b. 1929) and fellow Palestinians, which defined its goal as the liberation of Palestine by armed struggle; latterly, the dominant faction of the P.L.O., of which Arafat became Chairman in 1969.
1966Observer 16 Oct. 2/8 All now depends on the attitude of the Syrian Government and whether or not it is willing, or indeed able, to halt the operations of the Palestinian terrorist organisation, Al-Fatah, whose latest series of raids is the cause of all the trouble. 1969New Yorker 29 Nov. 153/1 Arabs..have been threatened by the Fatah and are afraid. 1972Times 6 Sept. 7/3 The Black September organization, the secret cell of Al Fatah, has links with Germany's revolutionary underground movement. 1981Christian Science Monitor 21 Apr. 2/5 The Palestinian parliament-in-exile has ended a nine-day session, electing a new executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization which appeared to strengthen still further the leading position of the moderate commando group Al-Fatah. Fatah advanced from 2 to 3 seats. 1984A. Hart Arafat 471 From 1957 to 1965 it was a network of secret and underground cells... Fatah became a functioning organization with a Central Committee in 1963, but did not emerge from the underground until 1965. Fatah took control of the P.L.O. in 1969. 1991A. M. Dershowitz Chutzpah vii. 220 Various Palestinian groups—beginning with Yasir Arafat's Fatah and the PLO—have resorted to the most vicious forms of terrorism. |