On 1/17/07, Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie wrote: > > Fatah is no longer fighting Tel Aviv but is siding with and getting > material support -- money and weapons -- from it and Washington in its > war against Hamas. By doing so, Fatah essentially ceased to be an > organ of a national liberation movement. The ANC and the Sandinistas > never sided with and took support from Pretoria and Washington > respectively to attack those who are opposed to Apartheid and > imperialism respectively. ======================== Sure, but there is no armed movement like Hamas standing in the way of US interests in either Nicaragua or South Africa as there is in Palestine, and if there were, I'm not convinced that the Mbeki and Ortega governments would side with their rivals in the face of pressure from the US, EU, and others if forced to choose. I think all three organizations - not only Fatah - have ceased to be "organs of a national liberation movement", and their respective behaviour is dictated more by circumstance than by any real difference in political outlook.
In the case of the ANC, it accomplished the most immediate and important goal of national liberation: the end of Apartheid. (The FSLN didn't face an apartheid problem comparable to what the South Africans did and what the Palestinians still do.) Fatah has not. Ceasing to be a national liberation movement before the chief task of national liberation is over won't do. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
