Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 23-24
Tuesday Night, January 23rd
"The National Authority condemns the killing of two Israeli civilians and is beginning an investigation into the details of the incident;
Israel suspends the talks in Taba until after the funeral of...
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 PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 23
Summary and Analysis
Minister of Information Yasser Abd-Rabbo led off the morning new show as the featured morning interviewee on VOP, underscoring a very pessimistic view of the state of the talks with Israel. Abd-Rabbo...
Official PA radio news: The Voice of Palestine: January 22
Summary and Analysis
VOP featured comments from several high-level PA officials participating in talks with Israel who took a generally pessimistic view of the negotiations, while advancing a firm Palestinian bargaining stance.
Jibril Rajoub said the...
Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 20-21
Summary and Analysis
The Palestinian Authority formally said goodbye to the Clinton proposals, thanking him for his efforts, while setting its sights on achieving a detailed agreement with Israel within ten days, according to statements...
Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 18th
Summary and Analysis
VOP led its headlines with the daylight murder yesterday of Hisham Maki in Gaza, but Maki was not characterized today as a "martyr"-which would have been obligatory had he been killed by...
Dateline Jerusalem: Journalists Under Palestinian Pressure?
The Palestinian Authority has a thing about journalists. The independent Committee for the Protection of Journalists which monitors abuses against the press and promotes press freedom around the world reports: "In the nearly seven...
Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 16th
Summary and Analysis
The Palestinian Authority reacted in a very cautious but optimistic way to last night's meetings and continued contacts with Israel: The head of the PA negotiating team, Ahmad Qreia (Abu Ala), told...
Understanding Arafat as a Media Strategist
There are many ways to describe Yasser Arafat, but whether one tends to call him a "politician," "statesman" or "terrorist," any fair estimation of Arafat would have to call him an "Egyptian intellectual."
Arafat studied...
Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 14th
Summary and Analysis
In its Sunday morning broadcasts, the VOP news coverage was fairly evenly divided between three subjects:
Continuing talks on final status issues, despite Palestinian views that nothing substantive is being accomplished;
Continuing coverage of...