Longtime Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan said the organization has never recognized Israel's right to exist. The former Fatah security commander made the remarks during an interview with a Palestinian Authority-controlled television station.
Dahlan was responding to a question about Fatah's reported insistence that Hamas recognize Israel's right to exist as a precondition for the establishment of a Palestinian unity government. "We acknowledge that the PLO did recognize Israel's right to exist, but we are not bound by it as a resistance faction," he added