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Towards an Arab Comprehensive Strategy For Peace
If one reviews the peace process since its launching after the U.S. aggression against Iraq in which the Syrian regime participated, s/he will realize why the Syrians looked for a peace settlement with the...
Current CNN Middle East Coverage: When Skewed Language Distorts Reporting
As a retired Research Associate at the "Harry S Truman, Institute for Research into the Advancement of Peace", of The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, I would like to provide the following short comment on the...
Official PA radio news – the PBC radio Dec. 18th
Summary and Analysis
Perhaps because the Palestinian Authority has some internal divisions about contacts with Israel, VOP has been largely downplaying this subject. One point was stressed however: Yasser Arafat himself was quoted as denying...
Official Palestinian Authority Radio: The Voice of Palestine – Dec. 21/22
Summary and Analysis
There is a subtle but definite change in VOP coverage of the American- Palestinian-Israeli talks in Bolling Base in Washington. Although the reporting is very low-key, and although the PA repudiates reports...
Official PA Radio News: Voice of Palestine January 1, 2001
Summary and Analysis
VOP ended its holiday schedule following the month of Ramadan and the Festival of the Feast ('Eid al-Fitr), but it entered into the day of the 36th anniversary of the founding of...
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...
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 – 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 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 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...
