Posted by: DanutM | 5 February 2010

Israel and Palestine: People Aren’t the Enemy

Brian Mc Laren has written a series of very interesting comments on his blog during his recent trip to Palestine.

Here is just one short conclusion of the article whose title I have borrowed:

Many things have become more clear since our arrival, and some things have grown more complicated for us, but one thing is absolutely certain: the picture we’re given through the media in the U.S. is grossly distorted. If you’ve never been in both Israel and Palestine, I hope you will start questioning what you think you know about the situation here. I’ve been an avid reader on the subject for quite a while, but being here now, I see how many of my most basic assumptions were skewed from a lifetime of half-truths, unfair and imbalanced news, propaganda, and misinformation.

Read on…

I also recommend another article entitled ‘Israeli Peacemakers’ Challenge to Americans‘.

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