Posted on 05/21/2002 8:19:29 AM PDT by RCW2001
By Dr Naseer Alomari
THE ARAB media outlets are often ridiculed for elaborating conspiracy theories. Highly professional and balanced American journalists condescendingly invite the novice Arab news outlets to be realistic, report facts, and accept what they consider uncontroversial truth. The reason why conspiracy theories are entertained in the Arab world is a pattern of conspiratorial reporting by some major American media outlets. The things that are left underreported or even unreported are picked up in the Arab world for further analysis. The conspiracy, as seen by many Arabs, lies in the amount of emphasis put on certain events, while ignoring what would be real breaking news. The conspiracy is in the way the major American media outlets pick and choose what the American public can hear. On May 13, Fox News reported that the police pulled over two Israeli nationals who were driving a truck near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station and found to have traces of TNT on the gearshift and traces of RDX plastic explosive on the steering wheel. No respected news anchor raised the question of whether a link exists between terrorism in America and the Israeli government. The events that led to the arrest of the two Israeli nationals were purely incidental. Could this be part of a bigger plot that aims to tarnish the image of the Arab and Muslim minorities in the United States and link Arab governments to terrorism? We will never know because the American media chose not to follow up. The list of suspicious Israeli espionage activities goes on and on. The Associated Press reported on March 5, 2002, that American authorities have arrested and deported dozens of young Israelis since early last year who represented themselves as art students in efforts to gain access to sensitive federal office buildings and the homes of government employees. If that does not constitute a pattern of misbehaviour that is worthy of reporting by the American media, what is? In contrast, a poem by the Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Britain, in which he praised Palestinian resistance, is treated as breaking news that is worthy of extended coverage. The most perceptive and open-minded Arab is left with no choice but to question the dubious relationship between the American media and the invisible hands of the Israeli government on what news items are reported to the American public. Conspiratorial reporting turned underreported the terrorist plot by a Jewish American group that planned terrorist attacks on American citizens. On Dec. 13, 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported that the chairman of the militant Jewish Defence League and another of the group's top officials faced federal charges for plotting to blow up a Los Angeles area mosque and an office of Rep. Darrell Issa who is an Arab American. Why do some American media outlets believe that Americans need not know this? Why is this reported hesitantly? Why is a Saudi poem more serious than this? Israeli loyalists in the United States have tightened their grip on what the American people can hear. They strive to pit the American public against the Arabs, they aim to manufacture a military confrontation between America and the Arab world, and they spare no effort to keep the American public in darkness vis-ý-vis the suspicious activities of the Israeli government on American soil. Does that not make a conspiracy? The writer, a Jordanian assistant professor of education at Marist College, New York, is involved in local Arab and Muslim community centres. He contributed this article to The Jordan Times. |
Perfectly ok? There are plenty of us who have our fun with the Tin Foil Hat (TFH) brigade here on FR. Read those threads, and realize that of course the majority of the posts will be by fellow TFHers, but there are plenty of debunkers at work. And most of those debunkers are the more respected freepers.
but God forbid, some FOREIGNERS do the exact same thing, and they're ridiculed.
And they rightfully should be!
May be nothing but perhaps a local FReeper can check it out?
An "Israeli national" is not the same thing as an Israeli.
One can be Palestinian and still be an Israeli national.
Granted, I'm just some idiot sitting at a computer. The people with more credibility than I who do think it was deliberate include the survivors, then Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas Moorer, then U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Thomas Porter, former Sec of State Dean Rusk and many more.
And there have not, to my knowledge, been anywhere close to 11 congressional hearings. If I remember correctly, there has not even been one, full-scale & public investigation by Congress.
What was the motive?
The motive, according to many of those who firmly believe that the attack was deliberate (this is hardly a new theory or accusation), was that Israel did not want the U.S. gathering intelligence.
I believe that there are still many unanswered questions that need looked into.
LOL! How about a tinfoil turban?
Ugh. Don't get me started on our support of/relations with Saudi Arabia (or China or....)
Believe me, as a NYC resident who personally witnessed 9/11 here and who's wife worked across the street from the WTC and had the misfortune (understatement) of fleeing from collapsing buildings on 9/11 and watching people jumping to their deaths, I am as concerend with the security of America as anyone.
And DON'T EVER even sort of accuse me from being from New Jersey again.
Hasn't this been debunked already? Weren't we told that it was cigarette lighter residue or something?
maybe you'd care to state just what influence they do have? it isn't none and it's more than a lot, IMO.
gdani wrote - "The reparations that Israel paid were modest and were paid with the understanding that the incident was an accident."
our money returned to us. check out their foreign aid amounts.
How much money have the Opecker Princes shoveled into the off shore accounts of Da$$hole. Da$$hole is their best investment in America after Carter and the Clintoon's!
How many of the phoney conservative opeders have been funded by the Opecker Princes? How much have the fish wraps of America received from the Opecker Princes in ad $'s to praise the wonders of the Islamic Mass Murderers? Time will tell, and those who have taken these 40 pieces of silver will pay a terrible price for their traitor actions against America and their pro Islamic stances.
When we eventually find out who and what so called enviral organizations have been bought out by the Opecker Princes, reality will strike very hard on those who have/are paid to push the lies of the Islamic Mass Murdering Thugs.
Hi all, President of the Nitpicking Society here to inform you that it wasn't "their car". It was a rental truck.
But the Whidbey Island thread has taken a turn for the slightly-more-interesting turn as of yesterday, it's worth a re-read.
On May 13, Fox News reported that the police pulled over two Israeli nationals who were driving a truck near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station and found to have traces of TNT on the gearshift and traces of RDX plastic explosive on the steering wheel.
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