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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 PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 23
Summary and Analysis
Minister of Information Yasser Abd-Rabbo led off the morning new show as the featured morning interviewee on VOP, underscoring a very pessimistic view of the state of the talks with Israel. Abd-Rabbo...
Official PA radio news: The Voice of Palestine: January 22
Summary and Analysis
VOP featured comments from several high-level PA officials participating in talks with Israel who took a generally pessimistic view of the negotiations, while advancing a firm Palestinian bargaining stance.
Jibril Rajoub said the...
Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 20-21
Summary and Analysis
The Palestinian Authority formally said goodbye to the Clinton proposals, thanking him for his efforts, while setting its sights on achieving a detailed agreement with Israel within ten days, according to statements...
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...
Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 16th
Summary and Analysis
The Palestinian Authority reacted in a very cautious but optimistic way to last night's meetings and continued contacts with Israel: The head of the PA negotiating team, Ahmad Qreia (Abu Ala), told...
Understanding Arafat as a Media Strategist
There are many ways to describe Yasser Arafat, but whether one tends to call him a "politician," "statesman" or "terrorist," any fair estimation of Arafat would have to call him an "Egyptian intellectual."
Arafat studied...
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...
Listening to Palestinian Authority Radio: An Assessment
Yasser Arafat is not Adolf Hitler, and Ehud Barak is certainly not Winston Churchill or Charles De Gaulle, but Arafat is a dictator whose strategic goals-like Hitler's-are no secret, if we will only pay...
Official PA radio news – the P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 11th
Summary and Analysis
The Voice of Palestine denied Israeli reports of progress in security talks held Wednesday night, and it reported extensively on Palestinian diplomatic efforts and public demonstrations to have Israeli leaders and officers...
