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To: Grainne who wrote (26804)	12/9/1998 11:03:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

American mythology and our support for Israel.... The human mind has many distinct functions. Among these are the seeing function, which is pure consciousness, the reasoning function, which is the effort of analysis, and the recording function, which is an effortless absorption of input from our environment. The mind tends to take the path of least effort and uses the tape recorder function to replace the more difficult functions of seeing and reasoning. The media exploits our mind's unconscious recording of information through use of repetitive advertisements designed to make us buy things we don't really need. The media also has a political agenda which is to make Americans worship the State of Israel and despise Palestinians. Often when you ask someone their opinion they will simply replay a mental tape that has been pre-programed into them by others. People may think they have a political opinion of their own but in actuality they are acting as walking tape recorders. This is why so many Americans say word for word that "Israel is a democracy and our important strategic ally". They don't even bother to change the words. They replay the tape exactly as it was loaded into their bio-computers (minds). America has become a mind controlled society because of the over use of the mind's recorder function. In America it has become politically correct to criticize Arabs, Catholics, fundamentalist Christians and the French, but it is strictly taboo to criticize Jews, Judaism, or Israel. All societies have their own unique forms of enforced mental programing and this is not a strictly American phenomena. The media continuously lies about the Middle East and downplays embarrassing stories such as the Israeli blood bank scandal, the Jewish Anti-Defamation League spy scandal, and the Temple Mount massacre. Only Mike Wallace, who is Jewish I gratefully note, has had the guts to tell certain hard truths about Israel and it's powerful American lobby. Dan Rather and Ted Koppel, by contrast, repeatedly lie and cover up stories. If you just passively absorb what they say you will continue to be a slave in a country that claims to be a free thinking democracy. If you want the truth from the American media then you will have to use the seeing and the reasoning power of your mind. Always be aware that news shows are not news shows, they are editorials presented as news. Remember that movies are not real life, they are someone's point of view falsely presented as fact. Don't let the mind controllers make you think that anyone is above the law or has special privilege to abuse the human rights of others. Don't support criminal behavior by being silent. That is what many Germans did when Hitler killed Slavs and Jews by the millions. We now call those silent Germans war criminals. We call those who are silent about Israel's crimes against Palestinians politically correct. Our media wants us to forget that the West has been a ruthless colonial power in the Middle East for centuries and has continuously treated Arabs as subhumans. We want their oil and arrogantly feel we own their oil. We treat Palestinians as non-entities and fundamentally want them to crawl off into a hole and die. Thus a small minority of Palestinians get angry and throw bombs just as a small minority of Irish nationalists get angry at the British and throw bombs. We do not consider the Irish to be subhumans for their violent outbursts yet we treat Palestinians as such. This is the real face of American racism. I would be remiss if I did not mention another cause of our blind support for Israel. That cause is the strange form of Christian Zionism professed by Pat Robertson. Pat does not believe in freedom of religion and states that only Christians and Jews should be allowed to hold public office. He believes all the Hindus, Buddhists, Moslems, atheists, and agnostics in America should be given a form of second class citizenship. Pat has said that anyone who meditates or practices yoga is communing with the devil. When Pat Robertson is not spiritually healing people's hemorrhoids via telepathy (yes, I actually saw him pretend to do that on his show) he is forever "fund raising". If Jesus were a Moslem instead of a Jew would we still have given Jews the right to murder Lebanese civilians by the thousands? Isn't our unquestioning support for Israel part of an ugly religious war against Islam? If the real Jesus were to come back wouldn't he throw the money changers (Pat Robertson) out of the temple? Our loyalty should be to the truth, not to this temporary hypocritical society we live in. In 60 years almost every adult you know will be dead and it won't matter what they thought of you. If you stand up for truth and for fair treatment of Palestinians you will be called many ugly names. Don't let this name calling bother you. Our morally blind worship of Israel is an unfortunate but passing phase of American society. If you embrace the big lies you will be putting your soul on the wrong side of history and your ethics on the wrong side of international law. Truth is eternal and, in my opinion, will go with you in a positive way even beyond your physical death.

To: Grainne who wrote (26804)	12/10/1998 12:51:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine, I also think most Americans see the Palestinians throwing rocks at the Israelis on television news broadcasts and think something like, how rude, no wonder the Israelis are so upset! They never go to the next step of wondering why the Israelis have guns and the Palestinians don't, or why the Palestinians always seem so angry! Really objective news coverage would cover these issues. This is very true, but by no means limited to Israel. How many Americans ever wondered why the Iranians were so angry at the Americans back in the days of the Shah, or what goes on in the minds of any of those dark-skinned people who burn embassies. News coverage is slanted toward spectacle, rather than information; this runs across the board. For anyone curious enough to look deeper, accurate information is certainly not difficult to find. I have never heard, for example, of Jewish groups demanding that certain histories be removed from libraries, which Christians are constantly doing. You are right in saying that the special relationship is fraying, which leads to another point which I will someday have to make to Emile, who will not listen. US support for Israel, especially in the Cold War days, was based less on Zionist propaganda then on the assumption that Israel was the only dependable and militarily significant US ally in a strategically significant area. This perception was reinforced during the oil crisis of the '70s, when all Arabs were regarded as enemies, and all enemies of Arabs regarded as friends. It is quite natural that with Soviet influence fading and US relations with the Arab world improving, attitudes toward Israel would change. The world is less one-dimensional than some paranoid individuals would like to believe. Steve