PMW Bulletin: Fatah calls for return to the rifle
March 25, 2014

Fatah official:
"We have not cast down the rifle... the rifle is here, and it can burst
forth at any moment"
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=10999

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
p:+972 2 625 4140 e: pmw@palwatch.org
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At a ceremony in support of PA Chairman Abbas in Jericho Fatah Central
Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi reiterated Fatah's adherence to the use of
weapons as "one of the methods of struggle." Shouting that "the rifle is
here, and it can burst forth at any moment," Tirawi stated that the rifle
"will burst forth from this [current] leadership... and if we are no longer
alive... [from] our sons, our young lions."

Click to view
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=797&fld_id=797&doc_id=11000

Similarly, a cartoon posted by Fatah on Facebook called for the return to
armed struggle. It showed a small boy pulling the hand of a man carrying a
rifle and dressed in a military uniform and wearing a traditional
Palestinian headscarf. The child says to the armed man:

"We have missed you,
come back."
[Facebook, Fatah Mobilization and Organization Commission, March 11, 2014]

Palestinian Media Watch has documented that Fatah frequently uses Facebook
to promote violence and glorify terrorist murderers.

The following is a longer excerpt of Tawfiq Tirawi's declaration that Fatah
will return to the rifle:

Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi:
"A national enterprise cannot succeed without the National Liberation
Movement, Fatah. We in this movement have not cast down the rifle and have
not let go of the rifle. The rifle is here! The method of struggle we are
adopting now (i.e., negotiations) is [only] one of the methods of struggle.
But the rifle is here, and it can burst forth at any moment, with a new
method and a new leadership. It will burst forth from this [current]
leadership if we remain alive, because we are its people; and if we are no
longer alive, [then] our sons, our young lions and you will be its people.
Revolution until victory, until victory, until victory."
[Official PA TV Live, March 17, 2014]

Click to see additional statements promoting violence by Fatah Central
Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi.
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=1027