++ [ originally posted by Padovano
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If we filled up Arkansas with gypsies, would they pick each other's pockets?
What you might not realize about USA is that the people and the government had opposite views on Israel prior to the attack of 2001. The American Government and the Jewish Americans both blindly supported Israel's oppressive policies. However, the American public, for the most part, was outraged at Israeli treatment of Palestinians, and most Americans that I saw actually favored the Palestinians in this fight. BUT, you know how the American opinon is shaped and controlled by the media, and that the media is controlled by Jewish Americans. So, on Sept.11, 2001, after the attack on the USA, the media was very quick to state that the Palestinians were celebrating in the streets. This may or may not have been true, but the shocked Americans heard it and believed it. A day later when the Palestinian Authority gave a tepid condemnation of the attack, it was too late. The Americans did not believe it, and all those people who had supported the Palestinians suddenly thought that it might not be so bad to support Israel's oppression of the Palestinians. This is the sad truth, as I saw it.