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Israel Resource Review |
19th January, 2001 |
Contents:
Official PA radio news - The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) January 19
Summary
The mosque sermon of Friday noon broadcast on VOP concentrated on an
Islamic justification for the execution of "traitors" and "agents," while
comparing Israel to a "cancer" in the region and characterizing the White
House as "The Black House" for "supporting the Jews."
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In the news programs, VOP ignored the murder of the young Israeli near
Ramallah.
PA ministers and officials said great gaps still existed with Israel,
and they were quoted criticizing the International Commission of Inquiry
for delaying its visit to the region until after the Israeli election.
Morning Headlines -- 7am news bulletin
- Israeli occupation forces close Salahadin Road that links north and
south Gaza;
- And a night-time Israeli shelling of the houses of citizens near the
Palestinian-Egyptian border;
- And other Israeli attacks throughout the homeland;
- Mr. Ahmad Qreia says that the gaps between the two sides, the
Palestinian and Israeli, remain great. He made his comments after a
Palestinian-Israeli political meeting held last night;
- Minister of Information and Culture Yasser Abd-Rabbo expressed his
disappointment with the performance of the investigating commission into the implementation of the understandings of the Sharm al-Sheikh summit,
(particularly) delaying for three weeks its visit to the region. And
Abd-Rabbo said that the commission was being subjected to pressures by
Israel;
- In a message sent to the Voice of Palestine, President Bill Clinton
sends a message to the Palestinian people at the end of his term, in which
he asserts the steadfastness, bravery and resistance of our people, and
re-affirming that it (the people) must have self-determination in its land
and the establishment of an independent state;
- Resigning Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak proposes a special regime
for the occupied city of Jerusalem under which Israel would continue its
control over the Jewish Quarter and the Buraq Wall (i.e. The Western Wall
sometimes known as the Wailing Wall, regarded by Muslims as the "Buraq" or
"Burak" wall, where some Islamic traditions say the Prophet Muhammad
tethered his mythic steed, Buraq), but Barak stressed his refusal to execute an agreement that consolidates sovereignty over Haram al-Sharif (in the hands of) to the Palestinian side;
- The special representative of UN Secretary General Kofi Anan in
Southern Lebanon, Steven Stora, supported an investigation into Israeli use
of depleted uranium in Southern Lebanon;
- A Vietnamese delegation visits Iraq on a humanitarian mission, and
this is the first time Vietnam initiates a humanitarian visit to Baghdad,
following its occasionally expressed support for Iraq and for the lifting of the siege on the Iraqi people;
- A summit between the North Korean leader Kim il-Jung, who is visiting
China, and Chinese President Jiang ze-Min in Peking (Beijing) yesterday."
(Apologies for spelling errors here: Arabic rendition of Chinese and Korean
names is no picnic.)
8 a.m. Friday news round-up
- "At this hour, Israeli occupation forces storm Silwad near Ramallah
and place a curfew on it;
- The American President Bill Clinton says in a message to the
Palestinian people at the end of his term tomorrow that the Palestinian
people had never been so close to the realization of its goals;
(remaining items similar to 7 a.m.)
Attitude to Violence
The murder of the sixteen-year-old israeli boy whose body was found near
Ramallah (the discovery of whose unidentified body was mentioned in VOP
broadcasts two days ago) was not mentioned in any of the morning VOP
broadcasts. Similarly there was no condemnation.
However, in palestinian newspapers and in the WAFA news service, the PA
issued a statement disapproving of such actions, "despite the continuation
of Israeli aggression".
(In Arabic, the term used for disapproval was rafd
which literally means "refuses" or "rejects".)
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