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December 15, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/international/middleeast/15palestinians.html

On the Air, Palestinians Soften Tone on Israelis

(New York Times) Greg Myre - According to those who monitor the Palestinian airwaves, suddenly there is talk of reconciliation. Israeli troops are called by more neutral terms. Scenes of destruction have fallen away. And the regular Friday sermons have become considerably more moderate. On Palestinian television, the archival scenes of violence were already appearing less frequently in the past year and had not been seen recently at all. "At the beginning of the intifada the media was totally different, showing fighting and playing national songs," said Nashat Aqtash, a Palestinian professor of mass communications at Bir Zeit University in Ramallah. "Now there is much more talk about social and political issues." On the Palestinian side, there has been a decrease in "the extreme incitement to genocide, to kill all the Jews," said Itamar Marcus, the head of Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli monitoring group. But he said the problem was far from solved, adding that "incitement to hatred" continued in many forms as part of an effort to "delegitimize" the existence of Israel.

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