Fatah (Arabic: فتح, Fatḥ), formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist and social democratic political party. It is the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the second-largest party in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, is the chairman of Fatah.
Fatah is generally considered to have had a strong involvement in revolutionary struggle in the past and has maintained a number of militant groups. Fatah had been closely identified with the leadership of its founder and chairman, Yasser Arafat, until his death in 2004, when Farouk Kaddoumi constitutionally succeeded him to the position of Fatah Chairman and continued in the position until 2009, when Abbas was elected chairman. Since Arafat’s death, factionalism within the ideologically diverse movement has become more apparent.
In the 2006 election for the PLC, the party lost its majority in the PLC to Hamas. The Hamas legislative victory led to a conflict between Fatah and Hamas, with Fatah retaining control of the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank through its president. Fatah is also active in the control of Palestinian refugee camps.
Founding
The core group of Fatah was most likely founded in Kuwait in autumn 1957 by five or six Palestinians, among them Yasir Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir. This core group agreed on the movement’s name, drafted its manifesto, and planned its “Revolutionary Organizational Structure.”
The name Fatah, the Arabic acronym in reverse for Harakat al-tahrir al-watani al-Filastini (The Palestinian National Liberation Movement), came to attention in the first issue of the magazine Filastinuna–nida’ al-hayat (Our Palestine–The Call of Life), in Beirut in October 1959, and cells of the group began to be formed in the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
As a movement of refugees, Fatah needed support from the Arab world, which it initially found in Algeria starting in 1962, then in Syria starting from 1963. Relying on this support, the movement leadership began preparations to set up a clandestine military wing named al-ʿAsifa (storm).
In July 1968, during its second conference held in the Syrian town of Zabadani (the first conference took place in Damascus in Summer 1964), Fatah finalized its organizational structure. Its composition was based on two decision-making committees that constituted its leadership: the Central Committee, which included ten members who represented the movement’s senior leadership, and the broader Revolutionary Council, considered an intermediary body between the Central Committee and the party’s general membership.
Guiding Principles
Fatah was the first national liberation movement since 1948 to be started by Palestinians themselves and that brought together Palestinian activists from different ideological and intellectual backgrounds. It called on all politically active Palestinians to abandon their party affiliations and to be united under its banner as a movement to “organize a vanguard that would rise above factionalism, whims and leanings to include the entire people.”
The movement’s leadership saw armed struggle as its primary means of liberating Palestine. It modeled itself after the revolutionary struggles in Algeria, Cuba, and Vietnam.
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The most destructive and least criticized form of astrology is the MBTI
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That’s one of my red-lines with people. I can tolerate astrology and tarot and the other esoteric stuff, that’s fine. But the psuedo-science phrenology stuff wigs me out and I want nothing to do with it.
At least my MBTI result has some causal relation to my own behaviour. I can understand the appeal of MBTI in the same way I can understand the appeal of “Which Disney Princess are you?” quizzes. Astrology doesn’t have that: you’re born a Capricorn, you’re stuck being a Capricorn forever, and it has no meaningful causal relationship with anything in your life.
MBTI was created by an incredibly racist and eugenicist fiction writer and her mother, both with zero pschoanalytical experience. The original version was created specifically for American women entering the workforce after WW2 to assign them personalities to better integrate them into the workplace. They tried to sell MTBI as legitimate to psychologists but when they were rightfully turned away, they tweaked it and sold it to companies which used it to enforce favorable work personalities.
MTBI is just capitalist astrology.
Yes, I’m aware of the history of MBTI as well. How does this interact with anything I’ve said?
You are shitting on astrology in the exact same post that you’re giving validity to MBTI. I thought a leftist would know better than to give even minor approval to it so I assumed that you didn’t understand the history of it. The fact that you do understand it and decided to elevate anyway is sus
I don’t think MBTI is invalid because of it’s history (if I did that, I’d have to be opposed to EVERYTHING that has something bad in its history). I think it’s invalid for other reasons that I’ve discussed in other comments. I don’t think being a leftist means I have to be imprecise.
A mystery novel writer that writes a book about a southern family self-destructing at the idea that they might contain a single drop of non-white blood goes to make a personality test that’s consistently rejected as pseudoscience by scientists for 80 years. Do we really need more than that to invalidate it?
Putting aside the much longer and complex discussion that all science can be shaped by racism, anything that specifically involves psychology or sociology absolutely can and must be examined and invalidated for racist (or homophobic, transphobic, etc) history or we are just reinforcing white supremacy.
Oooor you could examine everything independently and make decisions on a case-to-case basis? No need to fall back on fallacies.
But honestly, “I think you’re dismissing MBTI for mostly correct but imperfect reasons, whereas my reasons for dismissing it are better reasons” is not a hill that strikes me as worth dying on, so I’m going to tap out here.
Thinking about this further, I do want to acknowledge that I’ve failed to consider the element of power. Astrology is incorrect, but there’s not really a system of power that’s using astrology to oppress people, whereas there IS an infrastructure for using MBTI to oppress people.
I’m sorry to have spent so much effort nitpicking about this.
Sure, but that’s not the same thing as saying “This person said something racist, therefore we don’t need any other evidence to refute anything else they’ve ever said”. (The phrase “critical support” exists for a reason – sometimes people who are wrong about one thing are right about another). You mentioned that MBTI has been dismissed as pseudoscience by scientists for 80 years. I’m pretty sure those scientists were more rigorous than just “This person wrote a racist novel, therefore their argument is invalid”.
I’m a bit confused by this. Are you saying I’m committing a fallacy (and if so, which one?) Or are you criticizing me for pointing out your fallacy (“This person was bad, therefore their theory is wrong” is just about the most textbook example of the genetic fallacy imaginable).
Someone cannot hold a white supremacist worldview where they see non-white people as subhuman and then make a test that is designed to assign immutable personalities to people that is independent from that worldview.
Also I’m confused why, after listing 3 reasons, you only focused on 1 and try to use the other reasons as weapons against it. For someone that claims to want precision, you sure don’t seem to spare any for your posts
No it doesn’t, you have been grifted.
When I answer the questions one way, I get one result. When I answer the questions another way, I get another result. So, yes, my behaviour has some causal interaction with the result in a way that it doesn’t with my star sign.
All results are nothing but comforting generalities, like a cold reading.
I can understand the appeal of cold readings better than I can understand the appeal of astrology.
It’s all the same thing.
a newspaper horoscope isn’t a cold read.
A newspaper horoscope is a stochastic cold read
Actually, I want to go back to this comment. It’s been my experience that there are a lot of people who dismiss MBTI for the wrong reasons, usually out of incuriosity.
The reason I’m not a fan of MBTI isn’t because of a vague sense of it being pseudoscientific or because I’m dismissive of the idea of people using personality tests to understand themselves. The reason I’m not a fan of MBTI is because it gets taken seriously by schools and businesses even though I’m not convinced the results have any predictive power, which is kind of important if people want to consider it a scientific test. For example, the reason Mendeleev’s period table was important wasn’t because he put the elements in an arbitrary order – anyone could have done that. The periodic table was important because it revealed something meaningful about chemistry and could be used to predict the properties of elements that hadn’t been discovered yet. In contrast the MBTI doesn’t really predict anything, it just divides results up in an arbitrary way.
But at least in the case of MBTI, the act of answering questions about one’s behaviour might be a useful exercise in introspection, even if the result is meaningless. It may be useful in the way that I described tarot cards as being useful. I don’t see anything in astrology that even manages to be THAT engaging.
The use in schools and businesses is what I was primarily referring to by calling it destructive.