Itamar Marcus, who monitors the Palestinian Authority media by heading the Palestinian Media Watch organization, told Arutz-7 today that the PA media in fact do not reflect an atmosphere of peace, "but rather continue with their incitement. For incitement, they continue to broadcast a clip showing an armed stocking-clad man, and a picture of a bearded Jew, with an outright call to murder Jews."
Marcus said that the impressions inside and outside the PA are very different:
"The whole world sees the Road Map as a change in the PA's attitude towards Israel, but within the PA it's seen only as a change regarding corruption and internal matters, but having nothing to do with peace and Israel."
"There is no talk in the PA about how to stop terrorism," Marcus said. "If Abu Mazen starts talking about it, he'll be thrown right out." Marcus said that there are no signs that incitement will be stopped in the near future, "but in any event, we are working on a detailed document that Israel can present as its demand on this matter; there are about 11 different topics of incitement that have to be stopped."