Monthly Archives: May 2005
Rumors Spread by the Official Palestinian Authority Media that Jews Are Plotting to Take...
From Sunday May 8 through Tuesday May 10, the Palestinian Authority (PA) media emphasized the "threat of an attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque" and the threat of "the polluting of the holy Jerusalem shrine" (Arabic:...
Relocation of Businesses from Gush Katif
When Arik Sharon's first grandson was born, MK Zvi Hendel, then Sharon's friend, sent a huge bouquet of flowers from Gush Katif to the new grandfather. Lily was then alive, and the bouquet chosen...
Are There Orders to Open Fire On Jewish Residents During Their Eviction?
The IDF Southern Command and the IDF Operations Branch are at this time formulating special orders for opening fire for the settlement evacuation process in the Gaza Strip and Samaria. The new orders relate...
Weekend Analysis of the Official Palestinian Media
May 6-8, 2005
Summary
During the weekend, the Palestinian Authority (PA) media covered a variety of subjects ranging from last week's local elections to this week's overseas trip of Mahmoud Abbas to Brazil, Chile, Japan and...
Maariv attacks HaAretz Editorial for Demonizing Israel
The process of demonizing the State of Israel took a step up this week when the publisher of Ha'aretz, Amos Schocken, published an article that made grave allegations against the State of Israel. According...
Questioning Twenty Premises of an Official Publication of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On April 20th, 2005, The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs distributed a multicolored, glossy brochure entitled "Israel's Disengagement Plan: Renewing the Peace Process". The brochure intermingles the philosophy of unilateral disengagement with superlatives about...
From Evil, Make Good
One-and-a-half million innocent individuals were murdered. Women were raped and children were tortured. The survivors are few, the pain is great. But even ninety years after the Armenian Genocide, in which Armenians were systematically...
Disengagement Won’t Stop Firing of Kassam Rockets
As a result of the evacuation of the Israeli settlements and IDF forces from the Gaza Strip, 44 more Israeli residential areas will be within the range of Palestinian Kassam rockets. Army sources predict...
Abbas Attacks Israeli ‘War Crimes’ and ‘Intentional Murder’ of 2 Youths as Deliberate Attempt...
JERUSALEM--May 5, 2005
The official Palestinian Authority (PA) media opened their reports Thursday with a slashing attack on Israel for "deliberately killing" two Palestinian youths yesterday as part of an intentional Israeli plan to bust...
Palestinians Seek ‘International Protection’ and ‘Observers’ After Deaths of ‘Child Martyrs’ Killed ‘Playing Football’
A senior Palestinian official hinted broadly today that the Palestinian Authority (PA) would demand "international protection" and international observers to stop what he called Israel's "acts of aggression" against the Palestinians.
At the same time...