Fatah celebrates terror with videos of violence and song claiming that Fatah "fired the first shot on the path of struggle"
Video and text posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture
Posted text: “We Can Do It”
Visual:
The video shows former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas as well as old footage of Fatah terrorists performing military drills with assault rifles, rocket launchers, and mounted machine guns.
The screenshot shows the logo of the 57th anniversary of the Intilaqa (“the Launch”) of Fatah, counted from its first terror attack against Israel – see note below. The logo features the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel together with the PA areas as “Palestine” in the colors of the Palestinian flag on the left, and the number “57” on the right with the Dome of the Rock and an assault rifle in the bottom part of the “5” and a torch being held by a hand at the end of the “7.” On the right is the Fatah logo that includes a grenade, crossed rifles, and the PA map of “Palestine.”
Text on screen: “Constant revolution and a democratic state – the 57th anniversary of the Intilaqa.
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement ‘Fatah’ – Commission of Information and Culture – southern districts”
The screenshot shows the Fatah logo.
Text on screen: “Al-Asifa (i.e., Fatah military unit) – Palestinian National Liberation Movement ‘Fatah’ – Fatah central bureau for artists – southern districts”
A Fatah song entitled “We Can Do It” is played in the background of the video.
Lyrics: “We can do it, yes, we can do it
Call on us and we will appear immediately with the call
Fatah is in our blood and is part of us, we are prepared to swear with our whole heart.
It is the one that bore a burden heavy as a mountain,
And it was like a thorn in the occupation’s throat,
It is the first on the path of struggle, and the entire world testifies to this,
We can do it…
Fatah is the present and the future,
It is the one that has endured and is holding on,
The first shot came from it, and it will not replace the principles,
Fatah is the revolution, it is light and fire,
The heritage of Yasser Arafat, it is the people, it is the choice…
It is the one that said ‘We will not sell’ and refused the normalization deal,
Its heart is wide and contains the people,
And the enemy’s armies are small compared to it,
Since 1956 it is sacrificing for Palestine Martyrs, wounded, and prisoners – no one has given like it.”
Yasser Arafat – Founder of Fatah and former chairman of the PLO and PA. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s Arafat was behind numerous terror attacks against Israelis. Although he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 together with then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" after signing the Oslo Accords peace agreement, Arafat launched a 5-year terror campaign - the second Intifada (2000-2005) – in which more than 1,000 Israelis were murdered. Arafat died of an illness in 2004.
Intilaqa - "the Launch" refers to the beginning of Fatah on Jan. 1, 1965, when it carried out its first terror attack against Israel, attempting to blow up Israel's National Water Carrier.