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- From: "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com>
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
- Subject: american opinion
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.1777.21677@channel1>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 16:41:34 EST
- Reply-To: "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com>
- Distribution: talk
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
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- To: Harry Mamaysky
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- HM> Please remember, Mr. McGuire, that criticism is directed at
- HM> you - and NOT at the American people. Fortunately, most
- HM> American people do not think the way you do. And don't you
- HM> be surprised if what you claim will happen never will.
-
- I wonder who is better able to take an accurate read of the
- secret life of American public opinion: someone like yourself who
- is emotionally tangled up with a foreign country like Israel, or
- someone who isn't?
-
- Who is better in touch with American opinion: those who supported
- the $10 billion loan guarantee for Israel, or those who opposed
- it?
-
- Who is better in touch with American opinion: those who support
- Israel's recent deportation of Palestinians, or those who oppose
- it?
-
- At some point in the not too distant future I suspect that Israel
- and the Israeli lobby will discover that they have been living in
- a dream world when it comes to reading the mind and mood of the
- American people. It is a serious mistake to project your
- emotional obsessions on people who do not share them and to start
- believing your own propaganda handouts.
-
- Americans feel generally friendly towards the supposedly Western
- democratic Israel that has traditionally been portrayed in the
- mass media. The feeling doesn't run that deeply, however, and is
- predicated on the image matching the reality.
-
- The deterioration of Israel's standing in the U.S. during recent
- years is quite remarkable. In case you haven't noticed, it's
- increasingly difficult to find non-Jews who will speak
- enthusiastically about Israel with the exception of Christian
- fundamentalists whose hidden agenda towards the Jewish state and
- Jews is predatory indeed.
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