Editing Fatah (section)

==Etymology==
The full name of the movement is {{Transliteration|ar|'''Ḥ'''arakat al-'''T'''aḥrīr al-Waṭanī l-'''F'''ilasṭīnī}}, meaning the "Palestinian National Liberation Movement". From this was crafted the inverted and [[reverse acronym]] {{Transliteration|ar|Fatḥ}} (generally rendered in English as ''Fatah''), meaning "opening", "conquering", or "victory".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9033809|title=Fatah|quote=Fatah [...] inverted acronym of Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini [...]|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|language=en|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071129222152/https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9033809|archive-date=2007-11-29}}</ref> The word {{Transliteration|ar|fatḥ}} is used in religious discourse to signify the [[History of Islam#The spread of Islam|Islamic expansion]] in the first centuries of Islamic history – as in {{Transliteration|ar|Fatḥ [[Syria (region)|al-Shām]]}}, the "conquering of the [[Levant]]". {{Transliteration|ar|Fatḥ}} also has religious significance in that it is the name of the [[Al-Fath|48th ''sura'' (chapter)]] of the [[Quran]] which, according to major Muslim commentators, details the story of the [[Treaty of Hudaybiyyah]]. During the peaceful two years after the Hudaybiyyah treaty, many converted to Islam, increasing the strength of the Muslim side. It was the breach of this treaty by the [[Quraysh]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, P.J. Bearman|title=Encyclopaedia of Islam, Volume X (Tā'-U[..])|year=2000|publisher=Brill|page=539|display-authors=etal}}</ref> that triggered the [[conquest of Mecca]]. This Islamic precedent was cited by Yasser Arafat as justification for his signing the [[Oslo Accords]] with Israel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://arabic.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2074 |title=معهد واشنطن - معهد واشنطن لسياسة الشرق الأدنى |publisher=Arabic.washingtoninstitute.org |access-date=2013-04-25 |archive-date=13 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713221122/http://arabic.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2074 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=1725 |title=Thursday, May 21, 1998 Arafat Again Calls Oslo Accords A Temporary Truce |publisher=IMRA |access-date=2013-04-25}}</ref>