Official PA Radio: The Voice of Palestine: November 30
Summary and Analysis
VOP chose to highlight economic issues in its morning news program, featuring four items on the deprivations forced on the Palestinian people by the Israeli closures. The news bulletins continued to lead...
Official PA Radio news – the PBC radio January 5
Summary and Analysis
One has to pay attention to the unusual first item of the morning news-which was also the first item last night: unusual both in tone, style and content.
The reliance of Yasser Arafat...
Lights, Camera, Intifada
The violence in the Mideast has become a war of images, in which the press is the key to victory
Byline:
Stephanie Gutmann is the author of The Kinder, Gentler Military (Scribner).
Body
Day after day the seemingly...
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...
The Implications: This Far and No Farther
Up until yesterday it was often said that the twentieth century ended in 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Within months the Soviet bloc disintegrated and the Cold War ended. It appeared...
If The Cease Fire Collapses, Israel will Topple the PA
On Wednesday, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz met with Mohammed Dahlan. On July 6, when they met face to face for the first time, Dahlan surprised Mofaz and for the first time presented his conception...
“Demographic threat” Nonexistent
Yonatan Bassi, head of the disengagement administration, justified the pullout plan (in Globes, July 29) by saying that in Gaza, "there used to be 600,000 Arabs. Now there are 1.4 million people there... in...
A Message to Europe
The world is divided into two camps. On one side are those people who see terrorism as a warning of danger ahead. Unless something is done, they say, a catastrophe may happen. On the...
Acting Out of Faith
Unrealistic.
How can I best describe the Jewish residents of Gaza? As unrealistic.
Believers.
How do the Jewish residents of Gaza describe themselves? As believers.
The Jewish community in Gaza today is still living an unrealistic dream. For...