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Saturday, July 05, 2008
The rant of any Zionist, no matter how unintelligent and how silly, will get a hearing and a platform in any mainstream newspaper in this country. Look at this resentful student: "The DVD that comes with "Al-Kitaab" includes footage of Nasser's mass rallies in Cairo -- including slogans in Arabic and French such as "Brother Nations in Struggle, We Are By Your Side." These scenes of totalitarian rage are fondly described by the narrator as "dreams of his youth."" Wow. "Brother Nations in Struggle"? How awful. How totalitarian? What is totalitarian rage? Is it me or the quality of Zionist rhetoric in the U.S. is getting more and more stale and outright dumb? And is it not amazing that a newspaper would print a call by a law student for official censorship of books: "Perhaps we should also be looking into the content of the federally funded materials used in Arabic programs at our own universities. Learning Arabic should not include lessons in political propaganda." Would the Washington Post print a complain by a student unhappy with the volume of Zionist propaganda and lies in various teaching materials in the U.S.? (thanks Ali)