Monthly Archives: October 2000

Official PA Radio News – the PBC Radio October 31

There has been a fundamental change in the broadcast content and tone of VOP in the last 24 hours. President Yasser Arafat and VOP have communicated their complete support for the Fatah and Tanzeem...

Offcial PA Radio: PBC Voice of Palestine News Oct 30

Late-Breaking News VOP covered the murder of the man in Gilo in its afternoon programs in a quick sentence saying that Israeli sources reported "the killing of a settler in the colony (musta'mara) of Gilo"...

Official PA Radio News – the PBC Radio, October 27

Summary VOP switched its focus today from alleged atrocities against children (yesterday's charges and countercharges regarding bicycle bomber and attack on school bus, among others) and back to more generic descriptions of dead martyrs and...

Official PA Radio News – the PBC Radio, October 26

Summary Despite the fall-off in military activity yesterday, the Voice of Palestine has markedly stepped up the strident anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish tone of its news and feature programming in the last 36 hours. VOP, which switched...

Official PA radio news – the PBC radio Oct 25

Quote of the Day "Three new martyrs today, among them Nimr Youssef Maghneim of Jenin and Nidala Breiksa, stars of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, who were both struck and killed by fire from Israeli occupation forces...

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine – Oct 24

QUOTE OF THE DAY "President Arafat opened the meeting (of the Palestinian leadership) by sending his congratulations to the Palestinian masses for their steadfastness in standing up tocontinuing Israeli aggression for three weeks."- SUMMARY The Voice of...

A Parallel Mideast Battle: Is It News or Incitement?

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct. 21 - When Israel unleashed a retaliatory rocket barrage nearly two weeks ago against the police station here, where two of its soldiers were killed by an angry mob, the...

Come all to Jihad – “Hayya ‘Ala al-Jihad”: Listening to Palestinian Media

Listening to the Palestinian media these days gives the clear impression that what the Jews of Israel are facing now is no less than a call for Jihad, a holy Islamic war. The term...

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine Oct 23

QUOTE OF THE DAY "The Jews came here to sweep away the presence our people to transfer our people." (Ahmad Abdul-Rahman, cabinet secretary of the Palestinian Authority, in Oct 23 first morning news interview) DETAIL AND...

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine – Oct 12-17

There was an important shift in recent days in the content and tone of broadcasts, best signified by what was left out as by what was left in. The lead-up to the Sharm al-Sheikh summit...