Israel Resource Review

The Palestinians regard bombing terror attacks as strategic terror. This terror is meant to achieve diplomatic goals within a short period of time by using “shock therapy” on Israeli public opinion. The Palestinian terror organizations...

In a new assessment of threats to the security of towns and villages, conducted in the wake of October's clashes between security forces and Israeli Arabs, the Defense and Public Security ministries have compiled...

Summary and Analysis The Voice of Palestine generally downplayed the bus bombing yesterday in Hadera, preferring to use items about Palestinian martyrs for the lead for its news shows and summaries. Morning Commentary -- Youssef al-Kazzaz "First...

Note: Arafat often speaks in a mixture of sentence fragments and run-on sentences in some of his appearances. This was apparent especially in the following remarks. In other words, the syntax is Arafat's and...

We reviewed six days of BBC TV news coverage (October 3-9) from the Middle East, to test for tendentiousness in three categories: Was the reporter airing a personal opinion in the news report? Were views from...

BBC Tendentiousness Test Chart Time Reporter Airs own opinion? Both sides presented? Key words October 3 1 p.m. Paul Adams yes no 6 p.m. Paul Adams yes no 9 p.m. Ben Brown yes no massacre, President Arafat 9 p.m. Paul Adams yes no BBC2 7-9 a.m. Clive Myrie no no demonstrations, Hostilities, Al Aksa compound October 4 1 p.m. Paul Adams yes no Israeli snipers 9 p.m. Ben Brown yes no Uprising BBC1 October 5 1...

Summary and analysis The Voice of Palestine has given relatively little coverage to the Clinton-Arafat meeting Thursday afternoon beyond a recitation of Palestinian positions. There were no descriptions of the tone of conversations or of...

Evening Headlines 6 p.m., Saturday Evening Five youths became new martyrs in the confrontations with the Israeli occupation army, and more than 120 citizens were wounded; 25 citizens hit by live fire in Hebron; 46 citizens wounded...

Summary and Analysis VOP continues to lead its news shows with details of martyrs' deaths, funeral times and graphic descriptions of those wounded. The second area of concentration is the diplomatic front: efforts By Yasser...

Summary and Analysis The Voice of Palestine downplayed the murder of an Israeli woman near the Gaza Airport this morning, first largely ignoring the event and then treating it only as an Israeli claim. The item...