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Al Quds, the biggest-circula-
tion Palestinian daily paper,
Saturday, Dec. 23, was one of
those nights all production edi-
tors dread: too much news, not
enough space.
About 80 percent of the front
page was packed with paid no-
tices by aspiring politicians, pro-
moting their candidacy for the
January 20 elections to the Pales-
tine legislative council. Yassir
Arafat, leader of the Palestine
Liberation Organization, had
made a first triumphant entry to
Bethlehem, freed two days earlier
from Israeli occupation. And then
there were plans for the "first
Palestinian Christmas."
Maher Alami, the night editor,
was struggling to fit it all in when
a message dropped on his desk.
The Greek Orthodox Patriarch
Theodoros had welcomed Mr.
Arafat with a flattering speech,
comparing him to the seventh-
century Caliph Omar, who con-
quered Jerusalem for Islam. Mr.
Arafat's office ordered the Pales-
tinian press to put it on the front
g.
pae
AtAI Quds (the Arab name for
Jerusalem), Mr. Alami didn't
have room. So, he put a four-
column picture of Mr. Arafat in
Bethlehem on the front, together
with a report and the text of his
speech. He also found a corner for
Christmas ("We always put that
on the front," he says innocent-
ly). The Patriarch went on page
eight.
The next day, Mr. Alami, a 50-

Eric Silver is a senior writer for

the Jerusalem Report.

year-old father of seven, was
phoned by Colonel Jibril Rajoub,
the feared chief of Palestinian
Preventive Security, "inviting"
him to come to the colonel's Jeri-
cho office. He took the half-hour
drive the next morning — and
spent the following six days un-
der interrogation. Mr. Arafat rep-
rimanded him in person before
he was sent home.
Al Quds reported neither the
arrest nor the release. Nor did
any other Palestinian paper. The
message had struck home. "We
don't have a free press," Mr. Ala-
mi reflected this week. "We have
a press which is afraid of the au-
thorities. My arrest was a lesson
to change our behavior."
It should not have surprised
him. Ever since Mr. Arafat re-
turned to
Gaza and the WeSt Bank 18
months ago, he has treated the
Palestinian media — the public-
sector radio and television as well
as the printed press — as in-
struments of official propaganda.
Opposition papers are tolerated
only within strictly enforced
limits.
Although Arab east Jerusalem
is still under Israeli rule, Colonel
Rajoub's agents do not always
handle its dissenting pressmen
as gently as they did Maher Ala-
mi. Last May, they raided the of-
fices of Al Umma (The People), a
left-wing opposition weekly, piled
computers, fax machines and oth-
er equipment in the middle of the
floor, and set the lot on fire. Al
Umma has not appeared since.
In Gaza, Taher Shriteh, a free-
lance journalist who works for
the New York Times and other