Anti-German for newbies

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In einer eMail vom 01.03.2004 12:13:26 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 
kumpe3000 at gmx.de:


> Otto cited the Anti-Germans and wrote:
> >"the current commitment of the Germans in the Near East could lead in =
> the long run to Israel losing its sovereignity step by step and to put =
> Israel under international supervision, which would probably lead to its =
> destruction."
> 
> This is so off the track that it's just ridiculous.<
> 
> Sorry Otto,  I am tempted to argue about this.
> I harbour little sympathy for so Anti-Germans, yet I see some truth in your
> quotation. Even the supposedly neutral "Tagesschau" TV-news from the
> federal TV-network ARD, has a significant pro-palestinian bias in it's
> reporting. I only came to realise this after visiting Israel AND the
> Westbank some time ago. Issues looked significantly different on the
> ground, than in the german media. It was quite a shock to me.  There is
> some long-time palastinian propaganda going on, trying to establish the
> image of a palestine people tortutred in the hands of zionist madmen and
> abandoned by the rest of the world. It began with all this PLO
> merchandising in the seventies, and profits from some unreflected leftist
> ideology (p-listers excluded)that established itself as "intellectual" in
> the last decades.  Some of the brighter palestinian leaders have learned to
> benefit from this victim image and shurely have some phantasies like this
> quotation above.
> Anyway, I don't believe they will succeed, for they act much too stupid on
> the ground, and have learned nothing about coordination and the finer
> skills of psychological warefare.
> best,
> Christian.
> 

I agree with Christian in this point. Although I know some of these 
Anti-German guys personally and cannot like them - they are hardly bearable, they 
remind me at the polit-sects in the seventies -, in this point -concerning the 
one-dimensional tv reporting in the German media - they are right.
kwp
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