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David Melle’s FactsOfIsrael weblog links to an article describing the reactions of Palestinians to the fall of Baghdad. It appears that they really believed the statements of Iraqi information minister Mohammed Sahhaf. They expected the Iraqi army to beat the coalition army.
...fellow shopkeepers zapped from one Arab TV station to another with the hope of discovering that what they were hearing and watching was nothing more than a US-produced Hollywood film.“This can’t be true,” grumbled Abu Ghazaleh. “Where are the suicide bombers? Where are the Fedayeen of Saddam? Where are the heroic Republican Guards?”
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“Sahhaf reminded me of [Egyptian radio propagandist] Ahmed Said, who during the 1967 war, told us that the Israeli warplanes were falling like flies,” said Abed al-Zamel, a 70-year-old retired schoolteacher from Silwad village near Ramallah. “Once again the Arabs have fallen victim to the lies of their leaders and media. We never learn from our mistakes. When the war erupted, I warned my sons not to watch Arab TV stations so they would not be disappointed and depressed when the truth eventually comes out.”
The Palestinians have been living in a fantasy world. Who knows what other nonsense has been presented to them as true?
Is there a way to communicate to them more of the truth of the outside world?
