UNRWA: Teaching Palestinian Children to Murder Jews

David Bedein, head of the Center for Near East Policy Research, has been investigating the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for decades. He discovered that international funding (including from the US) has been...

Palestinians: We Want Democratic Elections, Too

We really envy the Israelis. Our leaders don't want elections. They want to remain in office forever." — Veteran Palestinian journalist from Ramallah. The truth is that neither Fatah nor Hamas is interested in holding...

Mr. Arafat’s Assassins

"To serve and protect" is the motto of many a police force. In the case of the tens of thousands of Palestinian police and security officers, what they serve and protect are the interests...

Father of Murdered Boy Ponders Contradictory Standards of Extradition

October 30th, 1997 Stanley Boim 18 Brand Street Jerusalem, Israel re: Justice for Mr. S & Mr. H A certain Mr. S journeyed half way around the year from Maryland, U.S.A., to find a place to hide from justice....

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine – Oct 22

SUMMARY The Voice of Palestine continued its policy of leading its news shows with the details of the burial of "martyrs" and the listing and counting of the injured. VOP continues to go into detail...

Official PA radio news – the PBC radio Dec. 18th

Summary and Analysis Perhaps because the Palestinian Authority has some internal divisions about contacts with Israel, VOP has been largely downplaying this subject. One point was stressed however: Yasser Arafat himself was quoted as denying...

Official Palestinian Authority Radio: The Voice of Palestine – Dec. 21/22

Summary and Analysis There is a subtle but definite change in VOP coverage of the American- Palestinian-Israeli talks in Bolling Base in Washington. Although the reporting is very low-key, and although the PA repudiates reports...

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 P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 14th

Summary and Analysis In its Sunday morning broadcasts, the VOP news coverage was fairly evenly divided between three subjects: Continuing talks on final status issues, despite Palestinian views that nothing substantive is being accomplished; Continuing coverage of...

Dateline Jerusalem: Journalists Under Palestinian Pressure?

The Palestinian Authority has a thing about journalists. The independent Committee for the Protection of Journalists which monitors abuses against the press and promotes press freedom around the world reports: "In the nearly seven...