HonestReporting Communique 28 April 2003 "DIVERSION TACTIC" As Washington targets terror and dictatorship, the dictators target Israel. * * * Dear HonestReporting Member, In the Arab Mideast, the psychology of repression is often remarkably simple: Autocrats foment anti-Israel anger among their populations to divert attention from domestic criticism that would drive democratic reforms -- e.g. a free and critical press, shared resources, enhanced education -- reforms that would eventually dismantle their own autocratic rule. Now, as the Iraq War has demonstrated America's seriousness about promoting full democracy in the region, Syria's Bashar Assad and King Abdullah II of Jordan are...