Gary Fitleberg, April 27, 2004

Arabs speak with one voice when it comes to Israel and Jews. Annihilation.

A Damascus-based Arab "Palestinian" faction is seeking to rejoin Arab "Palestinian" ruler Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement after feuding with it for more than 20 years.

Fatah Uprising, which broke with Arafat's Fatah in 1983, said it has contacted Arafat with a request to reunite. In a statement faxed to The Associated Press , it said Abu Khaled Omla, deputy secretary of the group's central committee, recently telephoned Arafat to discuss the subject.

The statement said talks "focused on the importance of the (Fatah) movement's unity on the basis of its principles and goals, stressing the unity of the people, land and cause."

Fatah Uprising is led by Col. Saeed Moussa, better known as Abu Moussa. In 1983, his Syrian-backed rebels in the Palestine Liberation Organization fought Arafat loyalists and ended up driving Arafat and his forces from Lebanon in December 1983.

In its statement, Fatah Uprising said Abu Khaled urged Arafat to "come out with a stand that responds to our (Palestinian) people's" wishes and the line of resistance.

It called on Arafat's Fatah to "come back to the oneness of our word, to restore together respect to the principles and bylaws of the Fatah Movement and its historic vision."

The statement also called on all other Palestinian factions to "formulate a national program" with a national leadership under which all would participate in rebuilding the PLO institutions.

One of Arafat's political advisers, Mamdouh Nofal, said that a number of Arab "Palestinian" factions, including Fatah Uprising and Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, have sent messages to Arafat expressing a desire to rejoin the PLO.

Nofal said he believed these developments came following a phone conversation between Arafat and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa, whose country hosts the militant groups.

His comments implied that Syria might be pushing the militant groups to make the move because of US pressure. The United States considers the groups sheltered by Syria to be terrorist organizations, while the PLO is recognized by both Israel and the US.

But Talal Naji, the assistant secretary-general of the PFLP-GC, denied any contact between the group's leader, Ahmed Jibril, and Arafat. He also denied that Syria was imposing pressures on his front to join the PLO.

"This is not true," Naji said in a telephone interview.

A senior Hamas official, meanwhile, called for unity between the various Arab "Palestinian" factions, saying they should do it out of a "sense of responsibility" to confront the alliance between the United States and Israel.

Abu Marzouk, deputy head of the Hamas politburo in Syria, denied there were any talks with Arafat to rejoin the PLO but acknowledged something needed to be done "to face this brutal (Israeli) invasion and great attack."

He said Hamas was in regular contact with Arafat.

Arab unity when it comes to the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish is the objective. Ethnic cleansing and genocide. A Judenfrei Middle East!!!

Gary Fitleberg is a Political Analyst specializing in International Relations with emphasis on Middle East affairs.

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