Barghouti’s election shows Fatah congress matters

The eighth congress of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s leading movement, Fatah, was held in Ramallah last week. It concluded with the election of the group’s highest body, the 18-member Central Committee, and its quasi-legislative body, the 80-member Fatah Revolutionary Council. Much has been said about Fatah’s lack of a clear political strategy for liberation and the efforts to engineer the elections to serve the ruling power in Ramallah, but one result is without question.

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