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==Ideology==
Fatah has member status at the [[Socialist International]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.socialistinternational.org/library/|title=Library|website=Socialist International}}</ref> and observer status within the [[Party of European Socialists]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pes.eu/en/about-pes/pes-members/parties |title=PES member parties |publisher=Party of European Socialists |access-date=2013-04-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503194245/http://www.pes.eu/en/about-pes/pes-members/parties |archive-date=3 May 2013 }}</ref>

The November 1959 edition of Fatah's underground journal ''Filastinuna Nida al-Hayat'' indicated that the movement was motivated by the status of the Palestinian refugees in the Arab world:<blockquote>
:The youth of the catastrophe (''shibab al-nakba'') are dispersed... Life in the tent has become as miserable as death... [T]o die for our beloved Motherland is better and more honorable than life, which forces us to eat our daily bread under humiliations or to receive it as charity at the cost of our honour... We, the sons of the catastrophe, are no longer willing to live this dirty, despicable life, this life which has destroyed our cultural, moral and political existence and destroyed our human dignity.<ref>Baumgarten 2005, p. 32.</ref>
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Armed struggle{{spaced ndash}}as manifested in the [[1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine]] and the military role of Palestinian fighters under the leadership of [[Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni]] in the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]]{{spaced ndash}}was central to Fatah's initial ideology of how to liberate Palestine.{{sfn|Aburish|1998|pp=41–90}}