Will Fatah launch ’intifada of independence’?
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And so, the official, together with a group of Fatah members, is looking at an “intifada of independence” in 2018, 70 years after the creation of Israel. Still, he claims that Fatah does not want to have such a strategy imposed by Hamas or by outside players such as former Fatah senior member Mohammed Dahlan.
An intifada of independence in 2018 would take the form of an armed intifada against Israel with the endorsement of Hamas, in possible cooperation with Hezbollah and backed by inter-Arab public opinion. The official emphasized that such a violent campaign for independence would not take two to three months, but two to three years — a kind of war of attrition against the powerful Israeli army.
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