Maps and diagrams aside, has anyone ever wondered WHY they won?
What conditions caused the locals to vote in huge numbers for Hamas?
Was it that corruption was so rife in the Fatah party that they had no choice ? Or was it something else ?
Here's something on the Fatah party that is considered mainstream...
On October 10, 1959, a group of about twenty Palestinians met in Kuwait and secretly formed Fatah (or al-Fatah, which is an acronym standing for Harakat Al-Tahrir Al-Watani Al-Filastini - the Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine), an organization that became the principle component of the Palestine Liberation Organization under the leadership of Yasser Arafat.
Fatah's original Covenant called for the destruction of pre-1967 Israel and disavowed interest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip -- then held by Jordan and Egypt respectively. Only in 1968, in the aftermath of the Six Day War, the PLO altered the Covenant to demand the establishment of a Palestinian State on the entire territory of the Land of Israel. Thus, Fatah and the PLO was built around the refugees of 1948-49, and, more than a generation later, these refugees still constitute the core of the organizations' leadership and support cadres.
So are they any different from Hamas ? And why is everyone so wrapped up over the axle over Hamas and not the Fatah party?
