From: gross@befvax.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: Want facts?  "WHO RUNS THE MEDIA?  The Alarming Facts"
Reply-To: gross@befvax.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago, Dept of Molecular Genetics
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 07:51:31 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.015851.5558@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>, ghassoun@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (George Hassoun) writes:

>I think the article above is an invaluable peace of information.
>It is quite long, but it tells you to what extent the media and
>consequently the brains of many generations are almost unnoticeably
>controlled by a concentrated minority of Jews.

You better retract this quick.  What you read was something from
the NAAWP, the National Association of White People, which is a white
supremicist organization closely affiliated with the KKK.  They probably
hate Arabs as much as they hate Jews.

It is classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.  But your willingness
to accept it indicates something about you.

>Soon after, and upon being confronted to the type of information about
>the Middle East written in the papers and shown on TV, i started to realise
>how biased is the information. I realised the difference between the general
>information level (regarding this arab-israeli conflict) of an average
>Parisien for example and an average citizen of Columbus, Ohio. Soon i realised
>that e.g. the New York Times is no match to Paris' Le Monde (regarding this
>issue). 
The New York Times has the most extensive Middle East converage of any
newspaper in this country.

>In Paris, people would
>confront you in the streets with very detailed questions reflecting well
>informed opinions while in Columbus (for example), people were full of
>curiosity but at the same time they were, most of the time, displaying an
>almost inacceptable degree of ignorance (regarding this matter again).

Columbus Ohio is a small town in the Midwest (I was born there).  
I would guess that the degree of ignorance about foreign affairs, compared
to New York or Paris is the same on any issue, not just the Mideast.

>The question of ``why so many Americans seem to be satisfied, regarding this
>issue, with a shaky level of information, while they seem to be zealous,
>commited, competitive, and mostly well informed in many other areas''
>remained unanswered for a very long time (was n't it Mr James Baker, who on
>a recent visit to the Holly Land metioned something to the effect of:`` Oh..
>the distances are so small''?!)

This is just false.  Americans in general are not well informed.  Many
Americans cannot answer simple questions like "Is the sun a star?"
"Why is it colder in the Winter?" and "What decade did the civil
war take place?"

>Here comes the article above to spot the lights on some reasons for this
>issue. Nothing wrong with Jews being successful (Good on them) but to
>use their success to hide relevant facts is an immoral act.

The article white-supremicist anti-Semitic propaganda.
The article preaches hate, it is not about facts.

>Unbiased, objective information is a necessary ingredient of the
>process of making a good judgement. In the past i used to say ``Why the
>h.. the American people (with all its tendencies towards, fairness, justice
>and righteous behaviour) why they don't see?'' and now i say, ``Give the
>American people the facts, ALL THE FACTS, and let them judge.

If you want unbiased, objective information, you should stop reading
white-supremicist propaganda as facts and realize it for what it is. 

>If it is possible to repost the article above another time, please do.
>May be some people did not have the chance to look at it. And most frankly
>i see it as a ``start of a new era'' (these are not my words aren't they).

The B-CPU people post it over and over again.  It proves the connection
that these people not only have to the hate groups associated with the IHR,
but other hate groups as well.

>It took James Baker 43 years (since the 1948 occupation of Phillistine)
>to realise that the distances in the disputed land are short..with a bit
>of luck it should not take more than another 43 years to realise that the
>land after all .. is a Phillistinian land!
Phillistinain?  Do you mean Palestinian?  
Do you think that all of Palestine is occupied?
Do all of you people who think that all of Israel is Palestine believe
white-supremicist anti-Semitic propaganda to be true?

>-- 
>George Hassoun
>University of Adelaide, EEE Dpt.
>Adelaide, South Australia
>email: ghassoun@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au      Phone:(08) 228 5468

Leon Gross
I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.
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