Official PA radio news – the P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 10th

Summary and Analysis The Palestinian Authority is signaling the end of the Clinton era in the Middle East. The PA has said thank you to Clinton, and now it will shop elsewhere. "There is no escaping putting...

Official PA radio news – the P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 7th

Summary and Analysis The last few days of VOP news and commentary have seen a kind of return to the pre-Intifada coverage at the Voice of Palestine: the news is built around Yasser Arafat, his...

Official PA Radio News The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) 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 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...

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...

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...