AlJazeera.Net (Qatar) : "Interview: What now for Fatah?" une interview de Mme Lamis Andoni

Interview: What now for Fatah?

The Fatah congress is being convened for the first time in 20 years [GALLO/GETTY]

Lamis Andoni is an analyst and commentator on Middle East and Palestinian affairs. She has been writing about the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) for the past 20 years and has interviewed all of the key leaders of the movement.

As more than 2,000 delegates gather in the West Bank city of Bethlehem for Fatah's first congress in 20 years, she says the movement, which has been plagued by infighting and allegations of corruption, is at a critical juncture in its history.

To restore its lost credibility and regain its historical status as the "backbone of the PLO", she says Fatah must now disengage from the Palestinian Authority (PA) and return to its political roots.

Al Jazeera: What has been Fatah's historical role within the PLO and the PA and to what extent is this now under threat?

Lamis Andoni: Fatah is the mother of the post-Nakba liberation movement. It was the first movement to effectively challenge Arab governments' control over Palestinian representation and Israel's denial of Palestinian national rights.

After its establishment, it soon became the backbone of the PLO, enabling it to evolve from an organisation intended to pacify Palestinian refugees into a.............
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