The Fatah convention which has been taking place n Bethlehem offers renewed proof of their intentions, yet President Obama and much of the West insist Israel compromise with this bunch of fanatics.

Among its resolutions of recent days, the Fatah assembly on Sunday approved a political platform that emphasized the Palestinians' right "to resist occupation in all forms including armed struggle" (i.e. suicide bombings). A report by Reuters added that President Abbas personally insisted on this.

Another resolution stated that Fatah will not give up the armed struggle until all the descendants of those claiming to be of Palestinian Arab origin can live inside Israel (which would essentially mean the end of Israel as a Jewish state). A further resolution explicitly said Fatah would oppose recognizing Israel as a Jewish state.

In other words, in spite of misreports by apologists for Fatah in the Western media, Fatah made it clear it is still not willing to accept the principle of two states for two peoples: a predominantly Jewish state and a predominantly Palestinian state living side-by-side in peace.

The new resolution says that Fatah considers Jerusalem a "red line" that no one could cross. It defines Jerusalem as the "eternal capital of Palestine, the Arab world and the Islamic and Christian worlds."

The city "is awaiting our sacrifices" and Fatah pledges to continue to make sacrifices "until Jerusalem returns to the Palestinians void of settlers and settlements," according to the resolution.

To Fatah, Israeli citizens are settlers. Once again, they have taken the opportunity Obama and the west have offered them. With American and British rhetoric in particular reaching in recent months a crescendo of vituperation against the ‘settlements', insisting they are dismantled (Obama) or their produce labelled as illegal (Miliband), the Palestinians are seizing on the word ‘settlements' to label all Israelis the illegitimate inhabitants of Israel's capital.