AlAhram Weekly (Egypte) : "Fatah's second coming" par Khaled Amayreh

Fatah's second coming

Having succeeded in holding its first general conference on Palestinian land, Fatah's ultimate success hedges on the extent to which it can extricate Palestinian rights from Israel's parsimonious hands, writes Khaled Amayreh in Bethlehem

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A Palestinian youth looks askance at the rubble following an Israeli air strike on the border between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza

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The week-long Fatah sixth general conference in Bethlehem was wrapped up Tuesday with the election of a new 18-member executive committee, fourteen of them new faces. The newly-elected members include several former chiefs of the Palestinian Authority (PA) security agencies, including Muhammed Dahlan, the controversial former Fatah strongman who is widely considered an arch-foe of Hamas.

Many of the movement's veteran leaders, such as Ahmed Qurei' and Al-Tayeb Abdul-Rahim, failed to win a seat on the powerful committee. Receiving the highest vote were veteran Fatah leader Abu Maher Ghunim, who received 1338 votes, followed by imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi with 1063 votes.

Fifteen of the 18 elected or re-elected members are based in the occupied Palestinian territories, something that means that the estimated 4.5 million Palestinian refugees living in the diaspora will have the lowest representation ever in the movement's most powerful body.

PA leader Mahmoud Abbas who was selected as Fatah chief for a second term will appoint three other members to the committee, including a woman, a Christian and a third person. There are speculations that Abbas might appoint his arch-rival Farouk Kaddumi as a member. However, it is uncertain whether Kaddumi will accept such an offer.

A few weeks ago, Kaddumi accused Abbas and his former aid


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