Well, that's not true. Fatah was founded several years beforehand. It is the 50th anniversary of Fatah's first terror attack (a failed attack against Israel's water carrier,) so for Fatah, that's the same thing.
The organization released a statement for the occasion on its official website. But this statement is not self-congratulatory or celebratory. Instead, it is a wildly angry missive against all of Fatah's enemies, internal and external, especially against the Mahmoud Dahlan faction of Fatah in Gaza.
Conflict rages today after prospects for the peace process have closed, and after that the Israeli enemy turned his back to the world and international legitimacy, and completely denied all Palestinian national rights, and insisted on the practice of racism and fascism in all its aggressive and criminal forms. ...Add to this the racial escalation and Nazi-like Israeli occupation and the Zionist practices...
Israeli enemy has proved racism through daily obnoxious behavior and based on the murder, detention, destruction of homes, and the desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the daily provocations stationed against Muslims, and the attack on the worshipers there and the plan for temporal and spatial division of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
In the face of these racist policies and collective punishment, targeting humans and trees and stones, and the practice of genocide in its ugliest forms, the leadership has acknowledged, led by President Mahmoud Abbas to take decisive and serious steps to address these crucial challenges, and insist on going to the Security Council to submit a draft resolution backed by the Arab world, to recognize the State of Palestine on the territories occupied in 1967, and a time limit for the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation.
We are encouraged to do so by the support of the ongoing European parliaments for a Palestinian state, which is evidence that the European and South American peoples and others began to be liberated from the nightmare of the Zionist media.
..The decision for the escalation of popular resistance is our top position, and the approach pursued by the martyr leader Abu Ein will prevail throughout the West Bank, and the city of Jerusalem, and it must make the enemy feel that the occupation is expensive, and it can not feel stable while our people suffer.
At this time the President Abu Mazen is leading the battle ending the occupation, at a time when the United States stands in solidarity with the Israeli enemy to abort the Palestinian project with arrows of treachery, and attempts to abort the Palestinian project by many quarters, including Palestinian sources. We have seen a gruesome picture stand out in the Gaza Strip in raising the banners of Fatah Festival but in fact nothing to do with Fatah, the festival showed images against Palestinian President Abu Mazen, who stands today with all hardness particularly against the United States and her stepdaughter Israel racism.
It is surprising that this suspicious festival was sponsored under the protection and guarantee of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, a joint project between the two parties who met on that day in order to weaken the Palestinian position, and confuse the Palestinian arena, and send a message to the world that President Abu Mazen has no control over the Gaza Strip, so the Gaza has a rebellious leasership. Is Hamas responsible for the consequences of such media festivals, namely Hamas, which signed a reconciliation agreement, and national unity, and the government of national reconciliation, is it still committed to what it signed or not? In front of what is going on, we emphasize to all those who are challenging the Fatah movement, we assure them that all those who who hatch conspiracies wil be met with stiffness and strength, and that this historic leadership will not pay attention to them, but is concerned with the national interests of the people, and adheres to our principles , and refuses to bargain, we in the Fatah movement have come close to the anniversary of the establishment of Fatah, the start of the Palestinian revolution emphasize that these leading her movement under a single command, a unified body, and the decision of one, and others should not accept others to ride roughshod over our leadership, because the encroachment on Fatah leadership is sacrilege.
We emphasize the Palestinian people that the Seventh Conference of the Fatah movement will make them stronger and harder and able to face all the dangers that beset them.
Salute to the sons of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and in all the occupied homeland, and we say to the blessed sons of Fatah in all governorates of the Gaza Strip that all attempts to abuse the Fatah movement and its cadres and leaders will not only increase our rigidity and insistence on our principles, but this movement of martyrs will always be bigger than the plots against it.
Salute to the martyrs whose righteous blood lit the road of revolution and liberation.
Salute to prisoners detained steadfast behind bars, believers that independence is coming.
And it's a revolution until victory
Palestinian National Liberation Movement Fatah