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...
Official PA radio news – ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE the P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine)...
Special Bulletin, 9 p.m., Israel Election Night
Summary and Analysis
Already at 9 p.m. V.O.P. quoted Danish reports that Ariel Sharon had won the Israeli elections, but it noted that a final result would come with...
Assessment; The Attitiude of the Palestinian Authority Towards the Israeli elections
Over the past few days, V.O.P. has been adopting a two-tier information policy regarding the election of Ariel Sharon both before and after the election.
Before the Election
On the one hand, the PA took no...
Official Palestinian Radio News: The Voice of Palestine (V.O.P.) March.5th. The PLO Non-Reaction to...
Summary and Analysis The Voice of Palestine began its special Feast of Sacrifice ('Eid al-Adha) programming with prayers and sermon from the Al-Aqsa, including a call from the mosque sheikh "to liberate Jerusalem" and...
The Double Message of the Israeli Government
It goes without saying that there is universal disappointment with Israel's information policies.
The problem is not the lack of funds or professional resources at the disposal of the Israeli government.
The problem remains the double...
The PA Summer Camps of War
The school year started yesterday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and 90,000 pupils went back to school after summer vacation. Many of them spent the vacation in their homes, because of the...
Should Legal Action Be Brought Against ‘Ichad’, Which is Funded in Part by the...
First Israeli peace group to call for sanctions, and the first Israeli group to support the divestment campaign against Israel. The question remains: Should legal action be brought against the ICHAD organization? Should...
Incitement in Today’s Mosque Speeches
(February 4, 2005-1330 Jerusalem/6:30 a.m. NY)
The official Palestinian news media today broke Mahmoud Abbas's promise to halt incitement to violence and hatred in the course of radio and television news programs as well as...
The Million Person Gap: A Critical Look at Palestinian Demography
Executive Summary: Population statistics and predictions of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) are unreliable. A BESA study that subjects Palestinian demography to rigorous analysis shows that the 2004 Palestinian population of the...
On the First Day of Cease Fire?
We are ending the first day of the ceasefire in Lebanon.
Here in Israel we really didn't expect it to hold even this long -- didn't expect Hezbollah to hold fire for more than and...