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Monthly Archives: December 2000
Official PA radio news – the PBC radio Dec. 29th -‘Eid al-Fitr (Feast Ending...
Summary and Analysis
VOP featured a fiery mosque speech from Sheikh Youssef Abu Sneina at the Al Aqsa Mosque. (see below) NOTE: This is the same Sheikh Abu Sneina who has been regularly featured on...
Official PA radio news – the PBC radio Dec. 30-31
Summary and Analysis
Officials of the PA took a hard line during VOP broadcasts Saturday and Sunday, explicitly toughening negotiating positions publicly while also promising an intensification of para-military activities against Israelis.
Prominent hard-liners - e.g.,...
Official Palestinian Authority Voice of Palestine Radio: Dec. 25
Summary and Analysis
Christmas morning on the Voice of Palestine was marked by three key items:
Holiday comments of Latin Patriarch Michel Sabah;
Palestinian protest at the retention of "the bodies of two exalted martyrs" (including the...
Official Palestinian Authority Voice of Palestine Radio Broadcasts: Dec. 26
Summary and Analysis
VOP returned Tuesday to very careful coverage of the Clinton proposals to the Palestinians and Israel in Washington. VOP is trying to navigate between the hard line of Abu Ala (PA Speaker...
Official Palestinian Authority Voice of Radio Broadcasts; Dec. 27
Summary and Analysis
VOP reported that the Palestinian Leadership-the Executive Committee of the PLO-would discuss the American plan some more this evening, with a view to giving a response soon.
Throughout the day there were hints...
Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine, Dec. 28th
Summary and Analysis
The confusion and lack of clear direction at the top of the pyramid of power in the Palestinian Authority emerges clearly in the last two or three days of broadcasts of the...
When Arafat Says No…
When Arafat says ‘No,’ what does he mean? The Rais’s ‘No’ is not an absolute rejection. It is a strategy of brinksmanship, designed to achieve a bit more, to squeeze one more accomplishment.
Arafat’s ‘No’...
Official Palestinian Radio Broadcasts on the Voice of Palestine: December 23-24
Summary and Analysis
VOP led its broadcasts Saturday and Sunday with detailed denials by PA President Yasser Arafat that the PA was contemplating acceptance of a "trade of rights" regarding the questions of Jerusalem and...
Official Palestinian Authority Radio: The Voice of Palestine – Dec. 21/22
Summary and Analysis
There is a subtle but definite change in VOP coverage of the American- Palestinian-Israeli talks in Bolling Base in Washington. Although the reporting is very low-key, and although the PA repudiates reports...
A Bigger Battle may be Brewing,Israel Fears: The Palestinians are Amassing an Arsenal
NABLUS, West Bank - The Palestinian fighter ran a finger approvingly over the cold metal of the assault rifle, embossed with the seal of the Israeli army. He squinted at the lettering in Hebrew,...
