
 
 
The Fatah  faction which leads the Palestinian Authority will meet in Bethlehem this week  and call for “controlled violence” against Israel, the Saudi Arabian newspaper  Al Watan reported. The French news agency AFP also confirmed an Al Watan  statement that Fatah will reject the idea that Israel is a Jewish  state.
The proposed Fatah platform in effect puts on ice any chance for  negotiations over the establishment of a PA state. Prime Minister Binyamin  Netanyahu has said that talks with the PA must be predicated on its acceptance  of Israel as the home of the Jewish people, which would provide an obstacle to  an Arab plan to flood Israel with foreign Arabs.
Instead, Fatah, headed  by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, is digging in its heels for a new PA state based  on the 1949 Armistice Line borders that existed until 1967 as well as a “just  solution” for several million Arabs living in foreign countries and claiming  ancestry in Israel. It also demands that they be compensated. 
The  proposed document threatens a unilateral declaration of an independent PA  country if Israel does not accept it through direct talks.
The  encouragement of violence, which is a violation of the Roadmap agreement that  calls for an end to incitement against Israel, is based on a claim that Israel  wants a situation of “no peace [a no war.”