>What about the "massacre in Jenin"? even though the UN has said this >never even happened, all Palestinian official information still claims >Israeli soldiers killed hundreds of innocent civilians? ==== As Ehud Barak learned the hard way: (from an interview he gave after the Camp David collapse):
"They (the Palestinians, and especially Arafat) are the products of a culture in which to tell a lie*creates no dissonance. They don't suffer from the problem of telling lies that exists in Judeo-Christian culture. Truth is seen as an irrelevant category*The deputy director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation told me that there are societies in which lie detector tests don't work, societies in which lies do not create cognitive dissonance (on which the tests are based)." == I notice that David Elazar's website has an intersting piece about the absence of a word for "compromise" in Arabic. ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
