The Palestinian Authority has asked representatives of a number of local media institutions to lower the tune of their coverage of Palestinian popular support of Iraq. Officials of the PA interior and information ministries held meetings with representatives of those media institutions asking them not to broadcast vast coverage of popular demonstrations organized in solidarity with Iraq in face of the Anglo-American aggression. The PA’s request fell in line with what it called attempts to calm down the Palestinian street in anticipation of promised American settlement plans. The PA had previously pressured local media during the Aqsa intifada so as not to air the real image of events.
"Don't show our real face to the civilized world, brothers! If you do, we'll never get support. Well, except for France. And Belgium. We can always count on Belgium... |