> Nice story, but Fatah actually negotiated and agreed to details for all-Palestine elections with Hamas; Israel declined to allow them to occur. Was this like

> Nice story, but Fatah actually negotiated and agreed to details for all-Palestine elections with Hamas; Israel declined to allow them to occur. Was this like a case of them agreeing to something they knew Israel would never allow(letting Hamas officials run in Palestinian elections)? > The US and Israel call all resistance to Israeli occupation terrorism; I don't think this is true, it's generally the violent resistance that is called terrorism, probably because there's quite a lot of that going on. > the PLO (not the Fatah faction but the whole umbrella organization), which is organizationally coextensive with the Palestinian Authority, is a Congressionally-designated foreign terrorist organization which has had Presidential waivers allowing certain interactions since 1993. Presumably that would be due to the PLO having engaged in and supported terrorism[0]. The Martyrs Fund is not exactly small: > These payments, total more than $300 million annually, representing approximately 7 percent of the PA's annual budget. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_Fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_...