PLO, Fatah, and Abbas want “popular resistance,” like the first Intifada “when we were masters of the roads… and the settlers were like hiding rats”
Director-General of Popular Activity in the PA-controlled Committee to Resist Settlements and the Wall Abdallah Abu Rahma: “The main point of the [PLO] Central Council meeting yesterday was popular resistance. All the sessions, meetings, and conferences, whether of the Fatah Movement or of the other factions, and also His Honor [PA] President [Abbas calls] in all his speeches to initiate popular resistance… We cannot enjoy peace and security without popular resistance actually spreading. The method of the popular [first] Intifada of 1987 (i.e., Palestinian wave of violence, 1987-1993) is the best proof of this, when we actually were the masters of the roads and did not cease to be so, moving freely, and the settlers were like hiding rats moving under the [Israeli] army’s large security protection, and despite this they came across blows and confrontations. Therefore, I again say that we need to initiate popular resistance…The right is taken by force from the occupation, and what was taken by force will only be returned by force, we need to act.”
Adham Mabrouka Al-Shishani, Muhammad Al-Dakhil, and Ashraf Mubaslat