Monthly Archives: February 2001

Official PA radio news – P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine) Radio, February 2Oth. PA...

In his morning commentary, senior V.O.P. commentator Youssef al-Kazaz exhorted the new Republican administration to take an active role in the peace process and for President George W. Bush "to be his father's son." The...

Official PA radio news – P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine) Radio, February 16-17. Featuring...

Summary and Analysis After the air-strikes in Iraq, both Israeli and American-Anglo "aggression" were feature items on V.O.P. Saturday. In the 7 p.m. news bulletin, reaction to the Iraqi air-strike-highlighting criticism of American-British aggression-was longer...

“Radwan and Me: A Personal Perspective of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation”

Summary Three weeks ago, this writer requested an interview with Radwan Abu Ayyash, the Chairman of Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (P.B.C.), in Ramallah. P.B.C. is the parent of Voice of Palestine radio and Palestine television in...

Official Palestinian Radio News: The Voice of Palestine (V.O.P.) February 15-16th

Quote of the Day-February 15 The terrorism (by Israel) yesterday involved the use of gas bombs which we do not know how to treat this poison. We are against escalation and terror. We are in...

Official PA radio news – . P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine) Radio: February 14th...

Quote of the Day "And I believe that in a civilized world Sharon would be brought before an international tribunal for crimes against humanity. If he were Milosovic or Pinochet or even Heidar who was...

Official Fatah Website Editorial: A Storm in a Broken Cup

Even during the most dangerous wars in 1967, in 1973 and during the Zionist invasion of Lebanon in 1982, nobody held his breath as the whole area is doing now while waiting for Sharon...

Official PA Radio News, 13th Febuary, 2001

Assassination Aftermath Bulletin, 2 p.m. Following the assassination this morning of Mas'oud Ayyad, an officer in the Palestinian elite unit known as Force 17, V.O.P. reacted with extensive live local coverage detailed condemnations from the...

Official PA radio news — 12th February, 2001

Summary and Analysis V.O.P. justified the murder of the Israeli driver Tzahi Sasson last night near the Jerusalem-Bethlehem by-pass tunnel, when it announced at the opening of its 8 a.m. morning news that the dead...

Official PA radio news – P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine) Radio, February 9-10

Summary and Analysis Throughout its newscasts on Friday and Saturday, the Voice Of Palestine-unlike the Voice of Israel-made no mention whatsoever of any contacts between Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon. It certainly did not report...

Official PA radio news – P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine) Radio, February 11th

Summary and Analysis Voice of Palestine opened its Sunday noon news program with news that a special military court had sentenced a Palestinian to death by firing squad for working with Israel. An execution date...