Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine – Oct 20/21

SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS In the lead-up to the Arab summit, there has once again been a strong escalation in strong rhetoric and atmospheric tension on the Voice of Palestine as shown in the broadcasts of...

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine – Oct 18/19

SUMMARY The Palestinian Authority yesterday announced compliance with the Sharm summit understandings, but the announcement (which ran first at 2-PM on Oct. 18 and subsequently) was noteworthy for three factors: 1. It was terse. 2....

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine – Oct 12-17

There was an important shift in recent days in the content and tone of broadcasts, best signified by what was left out as by what was left in. The lead-up to the Sharm al-Sheikh summit...

PA Leadership Calls for Continuing the Intifada

Arab Action Expected Speaking to a conference in Tunis, PA Chairman Yasir Arafat said: "Just as the Palestinian and Tunisian blood mixed at Hamam al-Shat so will the Palestinian blood mix with the Arab...

B’Tselem: Press Release (+IMRA critique) “Even in Time of War Not All Is

of the B'Tselem Human Rights Report Raises Questions about credibility. 1. Reading this press release it would appear that B'Tselem considers the throwing of rocks, steel rods and fire bombs to fall within the...

The Killing of a 12 Year Old Child: Another Perspective

On Sept. 30, 2000, the news agency Agence France Presse had a cameraman filming during an exchange of gunfire between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen/rioters. The cameraman focused in tightly on a father and...

When the ADL Went Soft on Arafat’s Textbooks

In September, 2000, Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti Defamation League(ADL), led a delegation of donors to dedicate a new ADL office in Jerusalem, and then meet with parties to the sensitive...

Palestinian Schoolbooks Under Fire

BEITUNIYA, West Bank (AP) _ Ask Karam Jamil about Jerusalem, just a few miles away from his school, and the first-grader's hand flies up: "It's the capital of Palestine, and it's where we pray." Ask...

Arafat in Amman: No Need to Stop the Fighting

JERUSALEM -- Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat arrived in Amman in a better mood than usual. Arafat kissed both cheeks of Jordan's King Abdullah and then pulled the monarch toward him and kissed his...

Did Major General Yaakov Or Fool Himself or Did the Israeli Government Fool Itself...

Major General Yaakov Or, the coordinator of government activities in the territories, has invested the last three-and-a-half years in slowly and carefully building up a broad network of contacts with the Palestinian Authority. Or...