From: Adam Flinton 

Gene McAloon wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:33:58 +0200, Phil Payne
>  wrote:
>
>
>>Personally I find the US media biased to the right.  More worrying than
>>that bias, however, is the superficiality of media coverage that very often
>>fails to explain the complete issue and even more often doesn't present any
>>other point of view.  This is particularly marked in coverage of Palestine.
>
>
> From a West European point of view, the US is a conservative country and
> that is reflected in their perception of the US media. Generally
> speaking, as recognized by most observers, both European and American,
> the US media is conservative on most economic/business issues and
> relatively liberal on most social issues. A small minority of the media
> resides on the far-right and tends to be conservative on both business
> and social issues. There is really nothing on the far-left to speak of,
> at least not of the mass circulation kind.
>
> The ranting of the far-right about an allegedly "liberal" US media is,
> as always with the far-right, pure fantasy; an offshoot of their extreme
> minority views in which everybody is aligned against them. Paranoia
> accompanying a persecution complex is not the least of the apparent
> characteristics of the far-right. It is what holds them together and
> accounts for the tightly controlled, lock-step attitude and arguments.
> Whatever the arguments of the moment being made by the Weekly Standard
> are exactly the arguments being made by the far-right here and
> everywhere else. Comparisons with the US Communist Party of the '50s and
> 60s in following party lines are instructive in that regard.
>
> Palestine as an issue doesn't' really excite much interest in the US
> public. Israel stopped being popular around the time of the Lebanon
> invasion, but unfortunately the general view of Arabs, Palestinian or
> otherwise, is not favorable either and never has been. If nothing else,
> there is always that Jewish temple down the street, but until very
> recently no mosque. Hard to identify with something you know next to
> nothing about and that seems so . .  alien.
>
> But, as far as the media are concerned; well yes, we know something
> about Jews and little about Arabs so if we are to take sides at all,
> naturally it will be with the Jews. Besides, in today's political
> climate, to support Palestinians is to support what Bush calls
> terrorists and that can get your patriotism called into question.
>
>

Nah it's coz the country was washed by waves of "new zion"
religious types eg the "Pilgrim Fathers" & latterly the
Mormons & the general belief in the US "manifest destiny". As
such, supporting zionism in the middle east is a natural extension of the
underlying American new zionism.

If you want to build a new Zion in the New World then supporting the
(re)establishment of the old Zion is to be consistent.


Adam

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