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To: LindyBill who wrote (1970)11/3/2002 10:16:11 AM
From: KLP  Read Replies (3) of 6901
 
This from current Time Mag...Not much hope in this article:

Islam’s War of Words
VIEWPOINT: Good deeds now won't erase a history of hate
BY DANIEL BENJAMIN and STEVEN SIMON
time.com

Excerpt:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>At meeting after meeting, American Presidents and Secretaries of State would raise the issue of anti-American and anti-Semitic material in the Islamic world’s press. But they seldom made heavy weather about this kind of garbage, standing dutifully by while their visitors spoke disingenuously about their country’s free press. The understanding was that these moderate regimes would deliver on America’s top concerns, support for the Middle East peace process and regional security. In the end, it was a doomed bargain. Moderate Arab regimes — Jordan excepted — did little to support the peace, and some, like Egypt, even undermined it at times. All the West has to show for its efforts is a world of hatred.

Yes, America and its friends need to push leaders in the Islamic world to rein in their press. Western diplomats and political leaders need to give more interviews and insist that their words not be twisted. But no one should believe change will come quickly. It will take years of demolition to grind down the mountain of mass-produced hatred that years built.

Daniel Benjamin is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Steven Simon is assistant director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Both served on the U.S. National Security Council staff, 1994-99 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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