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  • noun a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups

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Examples

  • (downsizable to sandwiches), variations on chickpeas such as fatah and mossabaha, and an organ trio of liver, heart, and kidney sauteed with onions and lemon-and still arrive as nearly insurmountable heaps of food, accompanied by bright pink radishes and preceded by a teaser of superbriny olives.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • (downsizable to sandwiches), variations on chickpeas such as fatah and mossabaha, and an organ trio of liver, heart, and kidney sauteed with onions and lemon-and still arrive as nearly insurmountable heaps of food, accompanied by bright pink radishes and preceded by a teaser of superbriny olives.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • a short speech, finishing up with a "fatah" or Mussulman prayer, on which all the Mussulmans present made the usual responses and stroked their faces, from their foreheads downwards, in the orthodox manner.

    Three Months in the Soudan 1885

  • Like the equally fake “fatah al islam” in Lebanon, it was established by America to try to provoke a civil war that would further fragment the Arab world.

    Justin Raimondo vs. Christopher Hitchens on al-Jazeera « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

  • I got an idea for you, go and live with the palestinians for a while, and tell us all about fatah and hamas social budget health plans, and peace iniciatives and what they do with all the billions they get from the UN, and by the way send your kids to a palestinian school for a few years, see how much they learn. idiot

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • FAT CATS fatah faux conservatism faux neutrality feminazis feminazis.

    Archive 2009-04-15 2009

  • Mike not wasting your time? did the rockets come tactfully? did hamas slaughter their Palestinian people tactfully or did they just mutilate them - you know the ones who are fatah? did they booby trap their own people and ensure they became victims tactfully? from your friend tactful phil

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • FAT CATS fatah faux conservatism faux neutrality feminazis feminazis.

    Biased BBC 2009

  • Has the UN or the "ICC" brought charges against hamas, fatah, islamic jihad?

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • When Fatah praises terrorists as heroes when fatah reaffirms its charter calling for the absolute elimination of the zionist entity in all of the holyland, we listen and we see no difference between this lot of Arabs and Arafat.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

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