A Tale of Two Incitements
25,000 religious Israeli citizens gathered on Saturday night, September 11th in the public square of a major city in Israel chanting slogans that called for the death of Israel's police minister and for the...
PBC Radio Describes Death of an Infiltrator as “Having Died a Heroic Death”
Muhammad Abbas's firing of three Gaza security officials has been seen by Western observers as one of several steps by Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen to show he is fighting violence and calls to violence,...
The Palestinian “Temporary Cease-Fire”: A Definition of Terms
The election of Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen)...has brought about a change in the Palestinian Authority's policy on continuing the "armed intifada." At the same time, the paramount interest of Hamas and Islamic Jihad is...
Sharon’s 10 premises for his withdrawal plan should be questioned
1. "The successful withdrawal from Southern Lebanon is a precedent for everything that will take place in Gaza and Northern Samaria after the withdrawal from these areas".
Deputy prime minister, Minister Ehud Olmert, said in...
The Current State of Peres
After years of speculation that the architects of the Sharon plan had an economic motivation up their sleeve, Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the original architect of the Oslo process, told the AP that...
Newsworthy Quotations from Official Palestinian Television
Official Palestinian television devoted much of its programming this past Friday (May 13) to attacking Israel and Jews in general, as part of the lead-up to the 57th anniversary of "Al-Nakba"-The Catastrophe-as Palestinians call...
Living in the Only Place in the World Where There are No Human Rights...
This morning, I came to my office at the press center in Jerusalem at 9:45 a.m. and was greeted with two new dissonant realities within minutes.
An official letter from the Israel Government Lands Authority...
PA Media Reflecting Internal Strife
June 16, 2005
Background Analysis-up front
There are several strong messages at the edges of the press reports in the Palestinian Authority (PA) which do not always find themselves in the headlines but which is becoming...
Where is UNRWA Going After the Withdrawal from Katif?
In early November, shortly after Israel had pulled out of Gaza, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met with UNRWA's new commissioner-general, Karen AbuZayd. Shalom suggested, during that meeting, that it might be time for...
Sharon Achieved neither Peace nor Security for His People or Ours: Khatib
08/01/2006 www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=1074
Palestinians won't miss Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon whether he survives or succumbs to his "critical but stable" condition while battling for his life after undergoing a third brain surgery in an Israeli...