Monthly Archives: March 2001

“With the Help of Allah, You Will Reach Jerusalem”

In an interview with Palestinian television about two months ago, the new Israeli government minister Salah Tarif said he regrets that the Druze serve in the IDF and fight "their brothers." Tarif called upon Israel...

Official Palestinian Radio News: The Voice of Palestine (V.O.P.) March.5th. The PLO Non-Reaction to...

Summary and Analysis The Voice of Palestine began its special Feast of Sacrifice ('Eid al-Adha) programming with prayers and sermon from the Al-Aqsa, including a call from the mosque sheikh "to liberate Jerusalem" and...

Official Palestinian Radio News: The Voice of Palestine (V.O.P.) March 6th

Summary and Analysis On the second day of the Feast of the Sacrifice, V.O.P. gave slight news coverage and interviewing, but expanded generally on several themes it has been broaching recently: broad condemnations of Israeli war...

Official Palestinian Radio News: The Voice of Palestine (V.O.P.) March 4th. Preparing for the...

The Voice of Palestine has been gearing up to the Feast of Sacrifice Monday. There were live interviews from the pilgrimage site in Arabia, and there has been a general increase in the Islamic...

Bombing . . for the Right of Return to Netanya

At the end of November, I lectured at a retirement home in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, to discuss the PLO demand that all Arabs who have wallowed in UN refugee camps for...

Seven Years of Arming the PLO

The State of Israel has armed its enemies. After six years it is still difficult to digest this. It is hard to believe that by its own hand,Israel built up a hostile military force and...

Official PA radio news – P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine) Radio: Tuesday February 27th...

Summary and Analysis The Palestinian Authority is charging Israel with "unprecedented escalations," even as its broadcast arm, V.O.P., appears to be readying the Palestinian population for a still-worse escalation, perhaps even Israeli invasion. In one of...

Official PA radio news – P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine) Radio, March 1-2.V.O.P. Reacts...

Summary & Analysis In its Thursday and Friday broadcasts, V.O.P. has been almost mono-maniacally fixated on Israeli comments portending possible military action inside PA territory. Various PA ministers have-following the lead of Presidential Secretary Ta'ib...

Official PA radio news – P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine) Radio: February 27th

Summary and Analysis In the aftermath of the visit of Colin Powell, both the Palestinian Authority and Israel agree on one thing: there has been an escalation of organized physical violence and verbal exhortation and...

State of Israel Does Not Appear on a UN Map of the Holy Land

March 1, 2001 Hatzofeh The UN financed a Palestinian tourist map of the Holy Land that does not name the State of Israel, and the entire center of the country, excepting Gaza and Samaria, is...