I had a feeling this was a trolling for CarolC thread. But I didn't want to sound presumptious so I didn't say anything.

Martin, I think you might want to reconsider your tactics, though. I never even had an opinion about the situation in the Middle East, other than making the basic assumption that the Arabs were probably responsible for most of the trouble, until the spring of 2002. That was during the Israeli incursion into the Occupied Territories in March, I believe. I noticed, for the first time, that the hate-filled vitriol I was seeing and hearing in the US media as well as here in the Mudcat (hate towards Palestinians) didn't match up with what I was seeing of the Palestinians myself, and with the things I was hearing them say.

I started to do a little research on my own in response to questions that these things raised in my mind. And I started discovering the Jewish human rights organizations, and discovering, through them, that I had been lied to and mislead all of my life by the US government and the US media, about the real cause of the problems in the Middle East.

So because of you, and people like you, I have learned a lot of important things I was ignorant of before, and every time you or someone like you starts a thread like this one, you provide me with an opportunity to present another side to the story. If what you want is to keep me and people like me ignorant, it would seem to me that you would be better served by not starting threads like this one.