What is the basic difference between Hamas leaded by Haniya and Fatah leaded by ABBAs?

Answer 1

Both Hamas and Fatah share the same goal which is the final and complete destruction of Israel. But while Hamas makes its stake exclusively on hte armked struggle, Fatah proposes to combine the armed struggle with the ideological one.

In 2009 in Bethlehem, some 2,000 Fatah members were taking part in the first Fatah conference in 20 years. The very first sentence of the opening speech honored the "shahids" who killed themselves fighting Jews.

"In the name of the shahids and in the name of Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian state, we declare the opening of the sixth convention of our movement, Fatah." With these words, convention chairman Ahmed Qurei (Abu Ala) - a former Palestinian Authority prime minister and speaker of the PA legislature - introduced the politically-charged gathering

Shahids literally means "martyrs," and the reference is to those who killed themselves or were killed in their attacks on civilian Israelis .

Photos of "fighters against Israel", including a young boy holding a rifle, dot the walls of the Bethlehem hotel hosting the convention. The official Fatah symbol includes a map of ALL OF ISRAEL - not just Judea and Samaria - on the backdrop of a rifle and sword - thus making Fatah indistinguishable from Hamas in their ultimate goals to replace all of Israel.

The convention was called in order to formulate the Fatah ideological platform and determine the leadership of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority for the coming years. PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) was seeking to retain power for himself and the "old guard," in the face of a challenge from convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti and the younger generation.

Barghouti is serving five life sentences in Israel for authorizing and organizing the murder of five Israelis in three separate attacks; he was acquitted "for lack of evidence" of murdering nine others and taking part in 33 other attacks.

Barghouti once summed up his approach to Israel and peace in the Middle East by saying, "After we attain a Palestinian state [in Judea and Samaria], there will be greater things for which to strive... THERE IS NO ROOM FOR MORE THAN ONE STATE BETWEEN THE JORDAN AND THE MEDITERRANEAN"

The convention included a clause in its platform negating the recognition of Israel as the Jewish State, and calling for "struggle using all means."

The conference made it clear that all Leftist /Liberals tales about how Arabs want peace, how they dream about the peaceful co-existance with Israel, and how they want only a part of Palestine are a lie. Arabs want all Palestine, they are not going to agree to a part, and there is no place for Israel there.

So, the difference between Abbas and Hamas is mainly in spelling.