Yoshie wrote:
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.
================================ This raises the interesting question of what constitutes Palestinian national liberation. Obviously, statehood, but what kind of statehood? If Arafat had come to some kind of agreement with the Israelis and Americans in 2000 and that agreement were subsequently endorsed by a majority of the Palestinian people would the Fatah-led PLO, in your view, have then realized the "chief task" of national liberation?
