Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: scontro di civiltà

sentiamo cosa dice Ray Hanania, giornalista palestinese
A Chicago newspaper reported these staggering but important facts: The
Jewish community in Chicago raised more than USD 22 million to support
Israel just in the past week. Chicago's Lebanese American community
raised about USD 30,000, total.
When you think about it, the Jewish community is saying that for every
Israeli killed in this past conflict - about 80, mostly soldiers -
they are willing to provide as much as USD 276,000 per victim. The Arab
community is saying that for 800 victims, mostly civilians and Muslim,
they are willing only to donate about USD 37.50 per victim.
It's not that an Arab life is worth less than a Jewish life. It goes
far deeper than that, reflecting the solidarity of the Jewish community
on the basis of religion and politics with Israel in comparison to the
disunity, apathy and disorganization of the Arab community, not just in
Chicago but in most major American cities.
What's the real problem? That Arabs don't care about Lebanon? Well,
not as much as they care about Palestine, for sure and tragically.
But the real problem has to do with the growing divide in the Arab
community between the secular community and the selfish and
ultra-religious community which only supports its own.
Add that to the characteristically divisive nature of Arab American
culture - and I single out Arab American culture because the
divisions and internal fighting and self-hate that is so dominant in
the Arab American community, and is not that apparent in the community
"back home" in Palestine, Jordan, Syria or Lebanon.
It's not just about the money, either.
Recently, the Jewish community in Chicago organized a protest that drew
several hundred thousand Jews and non-Jews in a positive demonstration
of support for the Israeli and Zionist cause.
Nearby, a group of self-appointed Arab activists who spend more time
hating, attacking and gossiping about other Arabs and Muslims in the
community managed to draw maybe 100 people. A week later, they drew
even less, about 45 protestors criticizing Israeli policy.
What's the problem?
Well, the problem is that the leaders in the Jewish American community
truly represent the Jewish American community. They have a structure
and a democratic system through which the community can participate.
More importantly, they have transparency. The organizations involved in
the Jewish American community are accountable to their community. Not
only do they publish political news about Israel in their newsletters,
newspapers and television shows, they also provide details on what they
do and what they haven't done.
They lay out a plan to help their community here in the United States
while also supporting Israel when the time comes.
They just don't care
That's all foreign to Arab American organizations, especially in
Chicago where someone asking a question about a "leader" will
result in them being thrown into the dog house, attacked, vilified,
denounced, shunned and censored.
They will tar and feather you, all 45 of them.
The real problem is the majority of the people in the Arab community,
both Christian and Muslims are apathetic, silent and they just don't
care.
They don't care that morons are leading their community and putting
themselves up as their spokesmen.
They don't realize that when a fanatic tells a television reporter
that American foreign policy caused Sept. 11 - the biggest lying BS
pack of lies I have ever heard in my life - the American public
believes that all of the Arab community share that ignorant, stupid and
ridiculous viewpoint.
Sept. 11 had nothing to do with American foreign policy. It had
everything to do with a pack of crazed religious fanatics who operated
with the silent acquiescence of the larger Muslim World, who decided to
viciously murder innocent people who had nothing to do with foreign
policy or the events in the Middle East.
Hostages by the extremists in our community
Despite that, most Americans believe that the average Arab and Muslim
believes that stupidity when the truth is that most Americans just
don't realize that the majority of Arabs and Muslims are being held
hostage by the extremists in our community.
Not only do this small handful of loud extremist ideologues succeed in
intimidating the majority, but they also have pulled the wool over the
eyes of the city's mayor and the state's governor, and nearly every
other major regional government agency that provides grant funds that
go mostly to support their political agenda rather than the social
needs they were intended to service.
There is also one other major factor that might explain this lopsided
effort to raise money to help the people back home: religion.
Let's be honest, Arabs in the community are divided between Muslims
and Christians and the extremists love to talk about how they bring
both sides together and how we shouldn't refer to the problems that
exist between the two. Don't even whisper them, we're told, or
else!
Yet the truth is the leadership of the two communities doesn't work
together and doesn't really get along. And that's obvious because
when a mosque raised funds recently to expand, they raised more than
USD 650,000 to support their church.
The "Lebanese" in Chicago are not viewed as "Arabs" but as
"Christians." Most of the Lebanese in America are Christians,
Maronite Catholics, and that irks many Arabs, especially the religious
fanatics who not only look down on Jews, but also look down on
Christians, especially the upstarts.
The Americans think all Arabs are Muslims, but they are not. The
majority of Muslims in America (about 7 million) are non-Arab; of the
4.5 million Arabs in America, the majority is Christians.
Just mentioning that fact upsets the extremists, and when you have
angry, red-faced fanatics at the helm steering the sinking ship, it
might help to explain why it's hard to raise money for even a good
cause in the Arab community like helping the people of Lebanon.
Some Arabs and many Muslims will condemn me for writing this column. So
be it. What else is new? But the truth is the truth. And you cannot fix
something that is broken unless you recognize the problem.
In Arab folklore, it's the Arab mind that has no clothes.
http://www.hanania.com/

 Jewish community in Chicago raised more than USD 22 million to support
Se devi fare il copia-incolla fallo almeno con gli scritti in italiano
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Honni soit qui mal y pense
Pomero 

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  fare il copia-incolla 
a te dà fastidio qualcosa, vero ?

 
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chi posta lo facesse in italiano quello è l'unico fastido
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   Il cane che lecca una mano non
vede il coltello nascosto nell'altra

 chi posta lo facesse in italiano quello è l'unico fastido
A me l'articolo è piaciuto.
Quindi zitto e non disturbare.
Mirco

 non conosco l'inglese 
perché sei un batano.

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