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To: GST who wrote (112046)	8/20/2003 1:03:56 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

You make a good point. The Arab bias is blatant -- do we have a bias for Israel? We do tend to be biased for fellow capitalist democracies, so probably. However, we also have a free and competitve press, plus cable tv & the internet, and a Cartesian-derived mindset that believes in gathering empirical evidence, not maintaining an 'official truth' at all costs. This protects us from spinning the same web of comforting myths around us as the Arabs have done. We are always looking for the other side of the story. The Arabs don't. Oh, we may have the same impulse as the Arabs, and we may try, but there is always the opposition dragging up uncomfortable facts. When they're not dragging up their worst fears and having hysterics -g- Don't believe it? Go back in any American paper and count up how many human sympathy stories on the Palestinians you can find. You'll find lots and lots, including to my disgust, lots of sympathy stories for suicide bombers. Then go to any main Arab source (try Al-Ahram or the Arab News, they are in English and aimed at a Western audience) and look for sympathy stories on Israeli victims of terror.