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Source: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=21557
The PA Media on the Internal PA Crisis
(Palestinian Media Watch/IMRA) Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - PA TV remains firmly in Arafat's control, as it repeatedly broadcasts various "Hail Arafat" style musical video clips. Dominating the print media this week are opinion articles openly critical of the PA leadership and the corruption, though most do not specify Arafat by name. However, many articles supportive of Arafat continue to be published. "We have no need for a symbolic formal government that cannot enforce any decision....We want...a strong government that will restore the Palestinian national project that has started to be consumed and shrunk through the treaty between the corrupt and the nouveau riche and the new possessors of power....What is needed is a bloodless overthrow which Yasser Arafat will impose against Arafat Yasser, if he wants to avoid a bloody coup by others - and they are many everywhere." - Hafez Al-Barghuthi, editor, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, 18 July 2004