Israel Resource Review

Even now, when the ground is burning and the future of the peace process is cloudy, senior PA officials find time to deal with the truly important things. The name of the game is...

Summary and Analysis VOP moved into its Ramadan schedule with a marked heightening of the Islamic content of its programming, while escalating the rhetorical side of its news reports. Israeli fire at Palestinian targets in...

Summary and Analysis VOP has been taking an uncharacteristically low-key tone regarding Israeli casualties in the last few days. It is not only that Israeli civilian deaths and casualties, even in major attacks such as the...

Thara Abu-Hussein, a one-year old baby from the town of Baka al-Garbiya, sustained moderate to severe injuries in yesterday’s attack. She suffers from burns on 15% of her body. The baby was transferred yesterday to...

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...