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Denizen wrote :
>Not inconsequential, but the US policy I see questioned more
>frequently is that which allowed such disapproval in the Muslim world to
>develop in the first place.  With as much as we've apparently done to piss
>these people off, I think we'd have suffered the same fate sooner or
>later, availability of Rancho Afghanistan Terrorism Camp or not.

On one hand, the Arab/Moslems forget what good things we do - as I've 
mentioned many times - trying to fix Somalia, fighting for Kuwait and 
Saudi, trying (in an often biased and lousy way) to make peace with 
Israel and the Palestinians, giving Egypt huge amounts of aid, fighting 
for Kosova and Bosnia moslems, and supporting the Afgans against soviet 
aggression. The arabs forget all those things.

However, they are right that the US is biased toward Israel - in a way 
that even the Europeans don't agree with. The US can not seem to simply 
support Israel without giving them a greenlight to all sorts of 
atrocities and Nazi like acts using weapons and aid that we send them. 
The American Jewish community, many of whom descended from European Jews 
who fled Nazism and who are normally a very creative, intelligent, and 
liberal group have this blind spot in their sense of humanity when it 
comes to the Palestinians. They have gained a great amount of political 
clout, and control all of Hollywood (when is the last time you saw any 
movie about the Intifada?). For some reason, the Christian leaders are 
biased in favor of Israel too - looking the other way to their suffering 
despite the fact that many Palestinians are actually Christian too. 

Americans are misinformed at best, and at worst brainwashed to think 
Israel good, all Arabs are terrorists. This is why Americans don't 
understand why the attack. PResident Bush says its an attack on freedom 
and they are evil and all this stuff - never facing the some of the real 
reasons Arabs are mad. 

Its really pathetic what happened yesterday. This Saudi Prince comes 
here, visits the WTC, and gives $10 million, and simply hands out a 
leaflet saying the US needs to reconsider its biased view - and he is 
humiliated by having his money returned. Then today on CNN, I heard 
Winston Churchill III (grandson of the famous WWII leader) take a very 
pro-Palestinian stand and say essentially the same thing as the Prince 
said. 

When even our friends in Europe won't support what Israel is doing, we 
Americans need to ask ourselves if we really know what is going on, if we 
stand for freedom or for oppression, and whether we are going to continue 
supplying military and financial aid to the perpetrator of these crimes 
of humanity. Israel recieves more money than any other foreign country. 
And in return we have Jonathon Pollard spying, we have the USS Liberty 
attacked, we have secrets given to the Russians, we have our WTC 
destroyed because of anger of what they do.

If Israel were really the friend of the US (a friend we have bought and 
paid for) then they should heed the call for making peace, stopping more 
provocative settlements in arab lands, stop the massive retaliation on 
innocent civilians, and grant the Palestinians a place to call their own.