People, this Middle East thing's driving me up the walls. Of the several
list I'm on, nearly all information only and non-interactive, about 95% of
my incoming e-mail is currently related to the mid-east, and the more I
read, the more frustrated and enraged I become. And when you top it off by
being a pacifist, and one who always considered himself incapable of ever
being ethnically prejudice, and is now dumbfounded to realize that he's
starting to experience a growing degree of that prejudice....
Admittedly, since there's very little an individual can do to change the
situation, its stupid to get worked up about it, but still... when my
e-mail brings in honest, factual reports of the things being done by the
Israelis to the Palestinians... the deliberate, wanton killing and
destruction reported by highly respected international sources, and then I
watch our national media here in the States, with their biased, one sided
coverage... my blood pressure just about goes through the roof!
Sometimes I catch myself asking; who really runs this country, the people
we supposedly elect to represent 'our' interests, or the Israeli-American
power structure? And then I ask myself; by merely asking such a question,
am I becoming anti-Semitic? And I think about the comment someone somewhere
made; "A simple test. Name all the major media outlets in America which are
controlled by Arabs. Then name the major media outlets in America which are
*not* controlled by Jews." There's a horrible ugliness in that comment, and
yet I must admit to myself, there's also a degree of truth to it...
Bob
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