Islamic fundamentalists are inward looking people.
Normally they have no interest at all in people outside
the Moslem word. In fact, the only time they show
interest in Americans is when we do something that
explodes inside the Moslem world.
For two generations, the full weight of American
power and prestige has been thrown behind carving
out a piece of Moslem land and turning it over to
another religious group, the Jews.
It takes a truly moronic mindset to get people to
overlook this painfully obvious fact.
Most Americans normally have no more interest in
Middle East policy than Middle Easterners normally
have in us. Exactly like Moslems in the Middle East
relative to America, most Americans had no interest
in the Middle East until the results of some Islamic
attitudes literally exploded right in our own back
yard.
Polls taken right after September 11 showed that
most Americans were suddenly demanding that we reconsider
our whole approach to Israel.
These polls were reported by Reuters news agency:
http://www.reuters.co.il/news2000/N2S6IO60.HTM
These polls were not mentioned in the American press.
After the terrorist acts, a majority of Americans
wanted to have a whole new review of our enormous
payments to Israel and those who are nice to Israel.
That attack threatened to cause them to question our
whole established routine. We routinely act as the
guardians of Israel's borders while we refuse to police
our own (September 9, 2000 - AIR
DEFENSE FOR ISRAEL, BUT NOT THE US).
I described the unanimous media push to get everybody
saying, "Well, all this is not because of Israel."
(September 27, 2001 - HINT
2: THE UNITED MEDIA MESSAGE IS "ALL THIS HAS NOTHING
TO DO WITH ISRAEL").
I have heard those words and others like them at
least a hundred times on television in the last couple
of weeks. All of the discussions talk about everything
BUT Israel as the cause of Middle Eastern hatred of
America.
Meanwhile, almost every Middle Eastern spokesman
says it's mainly about Israel.
Suddenly we are told that Islamic fundamentalists
just hate us because we're rich. We've been far richer
than they are for centuries. In fact, it is only now
that there is a fair number of rich Moslems, too.
But the religious people of Islam ignored America
all that time.
Until the creation of Israel.
But it can't be Israel. So the media tell us Moslems
just hate us because we are free.
We have always been freer than they were.
So it takes a true moron to drool and repeat, "Oh,
it ain't Israel."
And since everybody knows the press lies all the
time, a press blitz should have no effect on public
opinion, right?
Wrong. The only poll of Americans on the issue --
reported abroad but not here -- showed that, before
this "It's not Israel" blitz got underway, 68% of
Americans said that the major cause of Middle Eastern
hatred of this country was our generations-long one-sided
support of Israel. A week later, that had dropped
to 58%.
Now that this "It's not Israel" blitz has gone on
for weeks, every regular conservative "expert" I talk
to gives me that same wise old "Bob, I'm going to
say something popular and idiotic" look and then pontificates:
"Don't be Simplistic. It's a Complex Matter. It's
not Israel. In fact, it's got nothing to do with Israel."
You don't see surveys of American popular opinion
on this matter in the America media. That's because
the propaganda machine still has a lot of work to
do on the "It's not Israel" front.
58% of Americans are still not drooling and repeating
"It's not Israel." Until they do the media's job is
not done.
We will hear nothing about public opinion on Israel
until it is exactly what the establishment wants it
to be.
It will be. Soon everybody will be saying, "It's
Simplistic to say this has anything to do with Israel.
It has nothing to do with Israel."
Until then, you are going to hear nothing about Israel
in discussions of the present crisis.
I know all about how you get the public to say what
it's supposed to. I've been there WHERE they did it
and I've been there WHILE they did it.
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