Here’s the NY Times (following up on this fawning piece):

August 7, 2009
Fatah Postpones Elections, but Extends Conference
By ISABEL KERSHNER
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Amid stormy meetings and acrimonious disagreements over voting procedures, leaders of Fatah, the mainstream Palestinian nationalist movement, postponed elections for its decision-making bodies that were scheduled for Thursday. They said the landmark party conference taking place here would go on for at least two more days.
Fatah members are hoping that the conference, their first in 20 years, will revitalize and unify the troubled movement and fortify it against its Islamic rival, Hamas. But Fatah, at the vanguard of Palestinian efforts to negotiate peace deals with Israel, has been showing its more usual tendency for infighting and disarray.
Some delegates complained of bad planning, and observers described an atmosphere bordering on anarchy. But others said they were happy that the full spectrum of members’ opinions was finally being aired.
“I am proud,” said Saeb Erekat, a senior aide of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and Fatah’s leader. “Are we fighting? You bet! Are we screaming at each other? You bet!”
[Cut Five Paragraphs about the happy go-lucky jocular boisterousness]
One point of consensus reached on Thursday was the notion that Israel was responsible for the death of Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader and Fatah founder, who died in 2004. In the convention hall, delegates blamed Israel for having kept the ailing Mr. Arafat under siege in his headquarters in the West Bank. Fatah officials said they would continue to investigate the circumstances of his death, and suspicions that Israel poisoned him.
Delegates have come to Bethlehem from as far as Yemen and the United States. They include people as diverse as Sari Nusseibeh, an intellectual from Jerusalem who has championed nonviolence, and Khaled Abu Asba, who took part in a notorious attack in 1978 in which an Israeli bus was hijacked and about three dozen Israeli civilians were killed.
Separately, Human Rights Watch, based in New York, released a report on Thursday stating that Hamas rocket attacks from Gaza against civilian areas in Israel were unlawful and amounted to war crimes.
The rocket fire led Israel to mount a deadly three-week campaign against Hamas in Gaza that ended in mid-January. Since then, the rocket fire has decreased sharply, but Hamas has not renounced the use of rockets.

And here’s the Jerusalem Post’s version:

Israel resents Fatah Arafat accusation
Aug. 6, 2009
herb keinon, khaled abu toameh and jpost.com staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
The Fatah conference’s unanimous resolution Thursday to hold Israel responsible for the death of Yasser Arafat left Israeli officials annoyed and bemused, with Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai remarking there was a better chance of negotiations on Mars than in the region, and Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon saying the conference was a “serious blow to peace.”
“This was another lost opportunity for the Palestinian leadership to adopt moderate views,” Avalon told The Jerusalem Post. “Instead, it reverted to making extreme statements. This has raised suspicions that the Palestinians do not want a two-state solution, but rather a one-state solution.”
Yishai said that the decision relating to Arafat was “pathetic,” testimony to the Palestinians’ true intentions. “There is no room for any negotiation here,” he said.
The sixth General Assembly of Fatah unanimously adopted a proposal on Thursday calling for the establishment of a committee to investigate the death of Arafat. The panel will abide by the following guidelines: Israel bears full responsibility for Arafat’s death, the issue continues to remain open, and the investigation will enlist international support.
One Foreign Ministry official quipped that if the convention already determined that Israel was guilty, what exactly was it going to investigate? The proposal was raised by Bassam Abu Sharif, Arafat’s former political adviser, and was motivated both by demands from a number of Fatah delegates at the gathering, and by estranged PLO leader Farouk Kaddoumi, who in an interview in mid-July claimed he possessed a document proving Arafat’s death was the result of an Israeli-Palestinian conspiracy….