Fine, but there is two sides to every story and I believe the majority of Arabs in the middle east hear only one side.
Tell me what the other side is.
I follow media from various sources and in several different languages and the picture is no less damning. Israel is occupying Palestinian territories, oppressing the local population, and continuing to build settlements on their land. All this is possible thanks to unconditional financial aid from the US, from which Israel also gets political immunity because the US vetoes UN Security Council resolutions on the subject.
Do tell what light you would like the Arab media to show the US support for Israel. I am really interested to hear about how this picture can be softened.
willing to trade a lot of land for peace (half of Jerusalem for gods sake).
I believe the problem there was the lack of unity in the lande offered. Take a look at this:
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This is one example of a reality the Arab majority does not hear in their media, the Israeli citizens desire for peace
So do the Palestinians. What do you think, that they ENJOY blowing themselves up???
Does the Arab media ever do stories on arab villages inside Israel where jews and arabs live side by side in relative peace and harmony.
It used to. Not recently, though, possibly becuase there are not many such places left.
And recall, that the Arab media is one that depicts Jews as cannibals.
Do you realize that even if true, that was just one person making an obviously biased and misguided remark and cannot be generalized to "Arab media"?
I went to synagogues quite a few times. You would not believe the ear-blistering language I heard towards non-Jews. Fred can give you a few examples of this himself.
Moral of the story: There are misguided souls on both (all) sides. Sporadic events do not mean you can condemn and forget about the whole "Arab media".
for all the arab media mudslinging at Israel, it is never ever introspective
It used to be more "introspective", actually, but this was before 9/11 and the subsequent demonization of the followers of Islam. Just like criticism of the US position was a rare bird after 9/11, as the country was united as one faced with a common enemy, I see a similar trend in the Arab circles. |
