Fatah calls for return to the rifle
“We have not cast down the rifle… the rifle is here, and it can burst forth at any moment”
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
At a ceremony in support of PA Chairman Abbas in Jericho Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi reiterated Fatah’s adherence to the use of weapons as “one of the methods of struggle.” Shouting that “the rifle is here, and it can burst forth at any moment,” Tirawi stated that the rifle “will burst forth from this [current] leadership… and if we are no longer alive… [from] our sons, our young lions.”