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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...
Official Palestinian Authority Voice of Israel Radio Broadcasts – January 3
Quote of the Day "We will not accept the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem being segmented and separated one from another with an Israeli region clucking (i.e. gloatingly controlling) over them and controlling them as...
Does the PA Want to Erase Israel from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem?
Arafat does not tire of reminding Israelis at every opportunity, that he is not just the president of Palestine and the head of the PLO, he is also the deputy chairman of the pan-Islamic...
Will the PA Move Thousands of Arab Refugees into Jerusalem?
It’s hard to find anyone these days in East Jerusalem who supports the idea of splitting the city again. Even PA representatives are opposed to a return to the situation that existed before the...
Official PA radio news – the PBC radio Jan. 2
Summary and Analysis
VOP largely avoided reporting on the car bomb in Netanya last night (around seven p.m.), NOT putting the item in the headlines and slipping in the news as a tag-on at the...
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 PBC radio Dec. 30-31
Summary and Analysis
Officials of the PA took a hard line during VOP broadcasts Saturday and Sunday, explicitly toughening negotiating positions publicly while also promising an intensification of para-military activities against Israelis.
Prominent hard-liners - e.g.,...
Official PA radio news – the PBC radio Dec. 29th -‘Eid al-Fitr (Feast Ending...
Summary and Analysis
VOP featured a fiery mosque speech from Sheikh Youssef Abu Sneina at the Al Aqsa Mosque. (see below) NOTE: This is the same Sheikh Abu Sneina who has been regularly featured on...
When Arafat Says No…
When Arafat says ‘No,’ what does he mean? The Rais’s ‘No’ is not an absolute rejection. It is a strategy of brinksmanship, designed to achieve a bit more, to squeeze one more accomplishment.
Arafat’s ‘No’...
Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine, Dec. 28th
Summary and Analysis
The confusion and lack of clear direction at the top of the pyramid of power in the Palestinian Authority emerges clearly in the last two or three days of broadcasts of the...
