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To: Lou Weed who wrote (133243)	5/17/2004 11:52:31 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

What are Palestinian bloggers telling you about Israeli policies in the occupied territories?? Oddly enough, the blogosphere has not really noticed many Palestinian bloggers. I got curious and went looking for some Palestinian blogs, but a quick google search didn't turn up anything much. Bitterlemons.org and Electronicintifada didn't have any blog links. Like the Saudi blogger who shut down The Religious Policemen for fear of the religious police, Palestinian bloggers would have to be careful. Freedom of expression is not exactly a major Palestinian value where Arafat rules. It wouldn't be very interesting if they were only free to denounce Israel, but not mention anything about the behavior of the PA. Let me know if you find any good Paleistinian blogs. Much of the Palesitinian media output is extremely tiresome to me because they push the line that Palestinian are all helpless innocent lambs whom the Israelis are oppressing through sheer meanness, and they don't care if what they say is true or not, as long as it helps the cause. There is almost no discussion of strategic options, tactics, how the situation got to this point, anything like analysis. Whereas nearly every Israeli voice tries to analyse affairs and is congizant of the suffering of two sides, no matter how much they slant toward their own side. It's a much more adult view of affairs, imo.