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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...
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...
