This is part of the real story. The poverty is the basis on which the islamists operate. They built hospitals and create help-networks. This is no doubt the main reason why people elect them.
I somehow doubt that the ideology that tries to bring democracy to the ME is prepared to care for the poor masses. There are simply no approaches for dealing with this in our economic universe. Quite the opposite. So the compassionate face feels indeed like propaganda. I commented by the way on CTRL on the Revelation issue. I thought I sent it, but it never showed up. We know now that the original source was Jewish, but do we know anything about the text tradition it belongs in? Could it have been some kind of parody of Eastern mythology? There seem to have been analogies with other eastern tales. -b "Lebanon's lack of wealth is matched by the Palestinians -- three out of every four Palestinians live below the poverty line. Yet the vast majority of our giving in the region flows to Israel. This kind of geopolitical inconsistency and shortsightedness has contributed to the Arab-Israeli conflict that the Western world seems content to allow to perpetuate endlessly." > > <http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/18/dobbs.july19/index.html> > > It is extremely rare to see anyone in the mainstream media address the points that Lou Dobbs raises in this article -- one is amazed that Dobbs has been able to survive in this world for as long as he has. He deserves, like Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, to be commended for his extraordinary courage, and to be given maximum backup and support. He's up against the most ruthless and vindictive lobby on the planet, one which specializes in assassinations, black ops, blackmail, dirty tricks and similar methods to bully opponents into submission. > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Save and share anything you find online - Furl @ http://www.furl.net > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
