Thursday, March 30, 2006
Here are a couple of images from ADL's report, Arab Media Review: Anti-Semitism and Other Trends January - March 2006:
Qatar:
Al-Watan, March 18, 2006
The cartoon's headline: "Bird Flu in Israel."
Saudi Arabia:
Al-Yawm, January 13, 2006
The cartoon's headline: "God's Deceitful People." (As opposed to "God's Chosen People")
In light of what Jeff Jacoby wrote below, do you think that if papers like the Boston Globe started reprinting what really goes on in the Middle East on a regular basis that it would make the American people feel more or less affinity with Israel? I say more. I say if people really knew what was being fed to the people over there, and not had it filtered for them by agenda-laden apologists, it would only strengthen our ties.
Would it strengthen support for continuing the mission in Iraq? That I'm not so sure of. For some, yes, but for others it would inspire the feeling that we ought to, figuratively speaking, "take off and nuke the place from orbit." Sadly, there is no escape. We all share the same planet, and that means we have to stay put and deal with it.
And that means an occassional hard slog, messy, frustrating diplomacy, and knowing who your friends are. The people who publish the cartoons and text in the report above are not our friends.
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