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Official PA Radio News - the PBC Radio December 2nd Evening Headlines
Quotes from Interview with Yasser Abd-Rabbo, PA Minister of Information "The partial solutions which were acceptable before entry into talks on final status-talks which include refugees, Jerusalem and final borders-these solutions are refused for a final solution. As we've entered final solution, he wants to return to interim solutions but that they be permanent-only without Jerusalem and the refugees. That's the policy we are hearing….All this mucking around shows that he's not serious…." Attitude to Reconciliation or Negotiation With Israel In Abdel-Rahim's comments-as well as comments from Abd-Rabbo and Abu-Ala (Ahmad Qreia) and other PA officials-the PA is not ruling out any talks with Israel, as long as Israel agrees to Palestinian terms.
Official PA Radio News - the PBC Radio December 3rd Summary and Analysis VOP led its Sunday morning news round-up with an interview with PA Information Minister Yasser Abd Rabbo who reiterated the PA's demands for a complete final settlement including the right of return, Jerusalem and an independent Palestinian state in all of the West Bank and Gaza. A similar statement Sunday by PA Presidential Secretary Taib Abdel-Rahim-underscoring the right of return -- was reported in detail throughout the day. VOP continues to feature in detail the deaths and funerals of the martyrs, giving much detail to Palestinian wounded as well. In addition, the theme of economic and medical deprivation is appearing regularly in the statements of PA officials. Morning Headlines
Evening Headlines, 7 p.m.
Coverage VOP has been largely ignoring deaths and injuries of Israeli civilians in its coverage, especially in the last two weeks. Examples There was no coverage of the shooting of a civilian bus at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem on Friday afternoon (nor in any subsequent bulletins), although Israel said the shooting was committed by a PA policeman, who threw away his Kalashnikov rifle at the scene. Similarly, there was no coverage of the stabbing of two Israeli civilians at the al-Ram junction in Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon Quotes from Interview with Ahmad Abdul-Rahman, PA Cabinet Secretary "Israel does not want an international inspection. Israel does not want international observers. Israel wants to continue its aggression against the Palestinian people as long as America is providing its protection and as long as the European countries fail to take a firm position against the aggression. If this aggression continues, it is clear that is the election program of Ehud Barak, his government and his party and their statement to the Israeli voter."
Official PA Radio News - the PBC Radio December 4th
VOP led its Sunday morning news round-up with an interview with PA Information Minister Yasser Abd Rabbo who reiterated the PA's demands for a complete final settlement including the right of return, Jerusalem and an independent Palestinian state in all of the West Bank and Gaza. A similar statement Sunday by PA Presidential Secretary Taib Abdel-Rahim-underscoring the right of return -- was reported in detail throughout the day. VOP continues to feature in detail the deaths and funerals of the martyrs, giving much detail to Palestinian wounded as well. In addition, the theme of economic and medical deprivation is appearing regularly in the statements of PA officials. Quote of the Day "A responsible Palestinian source issued the following statement last night: 'In a premeditated and planned escalation, the Israeli occupation army and a group of settlers opened fire with their weapons on tens of worshipers in the town of Husan in the Bethlehem region. As the townspeople gathered for the evening prayers, the hate-filled settlers, under the protection of the Occupation Army, began laying siege to the place and opening live fire in a deliberate attempt to murder the all the worshipers, causing various injury to thirty citizens, some of them serious. And when the ambulances attempted to transport the wounded, the settlers and the soldiers prevented their transport directly to hospitals in and Bethlehem and Beit Jallah. The cold-blooded and despicable shooting of worshipers recalls the massacre committed by settlers under the protection of the Occupation Army in the holy Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in the holy month of Ramadan in 1993. We turn to world opinion and to all parties for the need to give us protection from the aggression of settlers and the Occupation Army. We hold the Israeli government completely responsible for this criminal act of invasion which represents a dangerous escalation in a crazy attempt to repress our steadfast people. But our people, after this aggression, will not be cowed…and it asserts that it will cling to its heroic intifada and to its firm national goals.' That is the text of the state by a responsible Palestinian source in the wake of events in the town of Husan." (Note: the statement was in effect the equivalent of an official PA cabinet communique.) Note on coverage: VOP has not reported any of the attacks on Israeli neighborhoods or communities in Giloh, Pesagot or Hebron. Interestingly, neither VOP nor Israel state radio reported what IDF radio reported monday morning, the Palestinian attempt to conquer the tomb of Rachel on Sunday night in a three-pronged attack Notable and Noteworthy "They think they will overcome us village by village, town by town. We will not let them. If they overtake a village, we will open up fronts on them from every quarter….We will confront them no matter what the results….This is like what happened yesterday in Aida Camp and Gaza Camp and Husan. The citizens stood up to their tanks with only their flesh…We will fight them no matter what the losses to achieve our national dreams and our national goals." (From Interview, 8:15 a.m., with Salah Ta'amari, senior PLO official in Bethlehem, and PA legislator.) Morning Headlines 8/9 a.m.
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