Fatah official: US is the plague
“Yesterday [Jan. 20, 2020] a memorial service was held for distinguished national leader Ahmed Abd Al-Rahman (i.e., senior Fatah official and advisor of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat) at the [PLO] Presidential Headquarters’ Ahmad Al-Shaqiri Hall in Ramallah, and this was under the auspices of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas…
In a speech he gave on behalf of President Abbas, Fatah Movement Deputy Chairman and [Fatah] Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul said: ‘The departed represented throughout his path the story of an entire generation of young people in the best of their years, and students who were stunned as a result of the [Arab] nation’s defeat in 1967 (i.e., the Six Day War), and they were freed from their frustration by joining Fatah.’ …
He added: ‘Ahmed passed away with all of the experience that he obtained throughout the long path. He passed away at a time when we are in need, at the least, of this experience and this understanding so that they will help us continue to act in the difficult conditions and under the great pressures and challenges with which we are dealing.The goal [of these pressures] is to subjugate us and cause us to make concessions on our principles. Since what needs to be done is essential and related to ideology, history, and the future, and relates to Jerusalem, the [refugees’] return, sovereignty, and independence, we have taken a position rejecting all ideas [of the Americans] and the connection with them, while emphasizing your friend Mahmoud Darwish’s (i.e., Palestinian national poet) words: “America is the plague, and the plague is America.”’”