Official PA Radio News – the PBC Radio, October 26

Summary Despite the fall-off in military activity yesterday, the Voice of Palestine has markedly stepped up the strident anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish tone of its news and feature programming in the last 36 hours. VOP, which switched...

Official PA radio news – the PBC radio Oct 25

Quote of the Day "Three new martyrs today, among them Nimr Youssef Maghneim of Jenin and Nidala Breiksa, stars of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, who were both struck and killed by fire from Israeli occupation forces...

Come all to Jihad – “Hayya ‘Ala al-Jihad”: Listening to Palestinian Media

Listening to the Palestinian media these days gives the clear impression that what the Jews of Israel are facing now is no less than a call for Jihad, a holy Islamic war. The term...

A Parallel Mideast Battle: Is It News or Incitement?

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct. 21 - When Israel unleashed a retaliatory rocket barrage nearly two weeks ago against the police station here, where two of its soldiers were killed by an angry mob, the...

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine – Oct 24

QUOTE OF THE DAY "President Arafat opened the meeting (of the Palestinian leadership) by sending his congratulations to the Palestinian masses for their steadfastness in standing up tocontinuing Israeli aggression for three weeks."- SUMMARY The Voice of...

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine Oct 23

QUOTE OF THE DAY "The Jews came here to sweep away the presence our people to transfer our people." (Ahmad Abdul-Rahman, cabinet secretary of the Palestinian Authority, in Oct 23 first morning news interview) DETAIL AND...

“No Arab military west of the Jordan River” Fact or Fiction?

Though the dimensions of the evolving Palestinian state have not yet been decided upon, one thing is almost certain: Palestine will be the Arab neighbor with which Israel shares the longest border. Furthermore, Palestinian...

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine – Oct 18/19

SUMMARY The Palestinian Authority yesterday announced compliance with the Sharm summit understandings, but the announcement (which ran first at 2-PM on Oct. 18 and subsequently) was noteworthy for three factors: 1. It was terse. 2....

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine – Oct 12-17

There was an important shift in recent days in the content and tone of broadcasts, best signified by what was left out as by what was left in. The lead-up to the Sharm al-Sheikh summit...

Official Fatah Website Editorial: Negotiating through Blood

Israeli threats and bribes failed to weaken the adherence of the Palestinian to their sovereignty over Jerusalem which was occupied in 1967. At Camp David II, President Arafat insisted that our sovereignty should be applied...