Hamas Ready For W. Bank Ops
Israel's intelligence community has assessed that Hamas was preparing to rebuild its operational and sleeper network in the West Bank.
Israel Government sources said the intelligence community has issued an assessment that Hamas wanted to...
Here’s what a Hamas training camp for teens looks like
Judging by the orderly rows of hundreds of young wannabes lined up in crisp military fashion at their graduation ceremony here Thursday, the armed wing of the Islamist movement Hamas will have plenty of...
Palestinians: More Missed Opportunities
It was Palestinian who hurt themselves: When Israelis were not able to hire Palestinian workers, they simply turned to foreign workers, prefabricated construction and other industrial innovations.
If the boycott of goods made in the...
Official PA Radio: The Voice of Palestine: November 30
Summary and Analysis
VOP chose to highlight economic issues in its morning news program, featuring four items on the deprivations forced on the Palestinian people by the Israeli closures. The news bulletins continued to lead...
Official Voice of Palestine PBC Radio: Dec. 10
Summary and Analysis
VOP gave very low-key coverage to the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak Saturday night. The late-night news broadcasts covered the resignation in very terse, matter-of-fact style, without commentary or analysis....
Official PA Radio news – the PBC radio January 5
Summary and Analysis
One has to pay attention to the unusual first item of the morning news-which was also the first item last night: unusual both in tone, style and content.
The reliance of Yasser Arafat...
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 Palestinian Radio News: The Voice of Palestine (V.O.P.) March 6th
Summary and Analysis
On the second day of the Feast of the Sacrifice, V.O.P. gave slight news coverage and interviewing, but expanded generally on several themes it has been broaching recently:
broad condemnations of Israeli war...
The Implications: This Far and No Farther
Up until yesterday it was often said that the twentieth century ended in 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Within months the Soviet bloc disintegrated and the Cold War ended. It appeared...
The Eyes of a Five-Year-Old Girl
What does a five-year-old girl say to a uniformed adult who enters her room abruptly? What does she think, innocent as she is, of an unknown man who comes armed into her nursery on...