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Seaver · 01-04-2009, 04:26 PM

One theory I held, and wrote on, in College is the social differences in the news media locations.

In most Arab countries, the people are completely separate from the government, not so in America and most Western Countries. They can justify and identify with the plight of the average Palestinian from their government's action (PLO or Hamas).

We are used to the democratic style of life in which WE ARE the government (the level of which varies, but none the less). We can not as easily separate the plight of the underdog from the aggressive and treaty-breaking tactics of those who were voted into power (the legitimacy of which is questionable).

For example, in Egypt or Arabia the majority of the people hate their own government and have no power of reform within. They see themselves in a much more similar fashion as the Palestinians, for which one can argue the degree of said amount. We can get our Representatives on the phone within a couple hours, and if we don't like him we have full right to mobilize and vote him out of power next round. They can not, thus have much more sympathy for the Palestinians than we form.

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Seaver Junkie Location: Fort Worth, TX	One theory I held, and wrote on, in College is the social differences in the news media locations. In most Arab countries, the people are completely separate from the government, not so in America and most Western Countries. They can justify and identify with the plight of the average Palestinian from their government's action (PLO or Hamas). We are used to the democratic style of life in which WE ARE the government (the level of which varies, but none the less). We can not as easily separate the plight of the underdog from the aggressive and treaty-breaking tactics of those who were voted into power (the legitimacy of which is questionable). For example, in Egypt or Arabia the majority of the people hate their own government and have no power of reform within. They see themselves in a much more similar fashion as the Palestinians, for which one can argue the degree of said amount. We can get our Representatives on the phone within a couple hours, and if we don't like him we have full right to mobilize and vote him out of power next round. They can not, thus have much more sympathy for the Palestinians than we form. __________________ "Smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge, and fountains of unstinted wealth will gush forth." - Ashbel Smith as he laid the first cornerstone of the University of Texas