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In article <1992Apr10.015851.5558@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> ghassoun@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (George Hassoun) writes:
>I think the article above is an invaluable peace of information.
>It is quite long, but it tells you to what extent the media and
>consequently the brains of many generations are almost unnoticeably
>controlled by a concentrated minority of Jews.


	Maybe you think the Holocaust never happened too.



>
>When i was in the United States (1986-1991) i was always perplexed
>by the general (not always publically manifested) attitude implying
>that arabs in most cases belong to a certain well defined category
>of people. ``You don't look like an arab'' was the most frequent reaction
>i used to get when first introduced to people.  ``As if arabs could be
>classified or categorised in one single shot'', i used to think. Soon i
>learnt that the idea does not affect appearance only, but it extends to
>behaviour, way of thinking, mentality and quality of attitude. In many
>cases i used to get this astonished face, as if what i'm doing is not
>part of the common expectations.

	Americans (as well as the rest of humanity) has always stereotyped
people who are different.  I don't condone this but don't blame the Jews
for it.  In fact the Jews themselves are often stereotyped.

>
>Soon after, and upon being confronted to the type of information about
>the Middle East written in the papers and shown on TV, i started to realise
>how biased is the information. I realised the difference between the general
>information level (regarding this arab-israeli conflict) of an average
>Parisien for example and an average citizen of Columbus, Ohio. Soon i realised
>that e.g. the New York Times is no match to Paris' Le Monde (regarding this
>issue). In Paris, people would
>confront you in the streets with very detailed questions reflecting well
>informed opinions while in Columbus (for example), people were full of
>curiosity but at the same time they were, most of the time, displaying an
>almost inacceptable degree of ignorance (regarding this matter again).

	a) The Middle East is very far from America and therefore most
Americans just don't know and they don't give a damn. Many Americans
don't even know what the major issues are in this country, let alone some
 far away land.   
	b) Many Americans don't even know where the Middle East is.
	c) France has a very large Arab population and is much closer to the
Middle East, and especially the North African nations.  Therefore the French
will be much more interested and knowledgable in this matter.


	Don't go blaming the Jews for American ignorance.


>
>The question of ``why so many Americans seem to be satisfied, regarding this
>issue, with a shaky level of information, while they seem to be zealous,
>commited, competitive, and mostly well informed in many other areas''
>remained unanswered for a very long time (was n't it Mr James Baker, who on
>a recent visit to the Holly Land metioned something to the effect of:`` Oh..
>the distances are so small''?!)

	Why would Israel or their supporters want to conceal the fact
that Israel is so small, especially when compared to the total land owned
by her Arab enemies? This would only strengthen their case for keeping the
West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan (and show how petty the Syrians are
being about the Golan).  

>
>Here comes the article above to spot the lights on some reasons for this
>issue. Nothing wrong with Jews being successful (Good on them) but to
>use their success to hide relevant facts is an immoral act.
>
They never seem to discuss how much worse Arab nations treat their fellow
Arabs than Israel does.  Kuwaiti atrocities against Palestinians are almost
never reported.

>Unbiased, objective information is a necessary ingredient of the
>process of making a good judgement. In the past i used to say ``Why the
>h.. the American people (with all its tendencies towards, fairness, justice
>and righteous behaviour) why they don't see?'' and now i say, ``Give the
>American people the facts, ALL THE FACTS, and let them judge.

	Yes, why don't they see?  Why don't they see that the Palestinians
who they feel sorry for support a terrorist group that has killed Americans
and taken them hostage?  Why don't they see the Palestinians send out 
children to fight the inifada, and that's why they get killed?  Why don't
they see that Israel acquired her land from the Arabs the same why America
acquired land from the Indians?  Why don't they see that Jerusalem has only
been free to people of all religions  under Israeli rule?  
	Let me guess...it's the Jewish owned media that is responsible.
 

>
>If it is possible to repost the article above another time, please do.
>May be some people did not have the chance to look at it. And most frankly
>i see it as a ``start of a new era'' (these are not my words aren't they).

	New era? Gimme a break.  Just another cycle of anti-semitic 
paranoia when people blame the Jews for all their problems.
	Wait wait, let me guess, you too had a video of how to grow weeds
in your backyard and the newspaper didn't do a story about it.

>
>It took James Baker 43 years (since the 1948 occupation of Phillistine)
>to realise that the distances in the disputed land are short..with a bit
>of luck it should not take more than another 43 years to realise that the
>land after all .. is a Phillistinian land!
>--

	Phillistianians no longer exist.  By your logic, half of the Arab
land should be Assyrian or Babylonian.

							-Manu

>George Hassoun
>University of Adelaide, EEE Dpt.
>Adelaide, South Australia
>email: ghassoun@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au      Phone:(08) 228 5468


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