My ex was driving across the country a few years ago and he told me that every local paper he read en route -- he reads them all -- devoted its "foreign news" section to Israel.
When the second intifada started, I started reading a lot of stuff about ME/Palestine/Israel history and couldn't believe the horror of it. But I had to read books and I had to find them -- Finklestein, Chomsky, Draper, Cockburn... This stuff is not available everywhere.
Joanna
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Sympathies in the Middle East Situation
>
> Historically, Americans have been very sympathetic to Israel in the
> Middle East, and have given Israel high favorable ratings.
>
> Gallup's basic "sympathies" question is worded as follows: "In the
> Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or
> more with the Palestinians?" The most recent measure on this
> question, from the Feb. 6-9 poll, finds that 59% of Americans
> sympathize more with Israel, while 15% side more with the
> Palestinians, and the remaining 26% do not take either side or do not
> have an opinion.
>
> The latest figures represent one of the most lopsided margins in
> favor of the Israelis ever recorded by Gallup. The only other times
> sympathy has been this high were during the first Persian Gulf War in
> February 1991, (when Iraq was launching Scud missiles into Israeli
> territory) and shortly before the start of the second war with Iraq,
> in February 2003, (58%). In 2004 and 2005, sympathy toward the
> Palestinians, though still low, was as high as it has been
> historically (18%).
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