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| PA aims to use radio journalism to win back Gaza | |
| 2007-08-15 | |
| The Palestinian Authority government will recover Gaza sooner than people think, PA Information Minister Riyad al-Malki told a group of Israeli and Palestinian journalists in Ramallah on Tuesday. "We're working on the notion that what happened in Gaza is temporary, and we are working towards winning Gaza back," he said. The media personnel were present under the auspices of The Mideast Press Club, a project of The Media Line dedicated to fostering cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian journalists. Malki, who was appointed two months ago as a member of the emergency government, was charged with the immediate task of finding proper responses to the emergency situation created by the Hamas coup in Gaza. It was a situation that the Palestinians had never experienced, he said, and one that did not have precedents elsewhere, so there was nothing from which to learn. "We're not a state, but we have a political faction in power using a military coup against the government, and they control one part of the country separated from another part of the country by a third country," Malki explained in a nutshell. As a result of the misinformation disseminated by Hamas, media and information have suddenly become the most important vehicle for the PA in confronting the situation in Gaza, he continued, noting that "80 percent of the battle is focused on media information."
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| Posted by:Fred |