The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes (ص 7)
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- The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes (ص 7)
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FOREWORD
This is the first study, as far as we know, to be carried
on a foreign community in any Arab country, concerning the
Palestine problem.
The Research Center of the Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation (P.L.O.) was interested in studying the American com-
munity in Lebanon for a number of reasons. One reason is
that the Americans appear among the most ignorant and careless
of people with regard to Arab rights in Palestine. Another
reason is the fact that Lebanon has the unique position among
the Arab countries of offering information to a foreign com-
munity in the community’s own language. However, the
major reason behind this basically empirical survey is to offer
to those in charge of Arab information offices, Palestinians
and non-Palestinians, who are trying to reform the approach
of the Arab mass media toward the Palestine problem from
the mistakes and shortcomings of the past, some facts about
the American mentality which they are supposed to address
and to get a feed-back from.
Of course we do not claim that studying the Americans
in a country like Lebanon leads to an understanding of the
whole American public. This is so, because we know that an - هو جزء من
- The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes
- تاريخ
- ديسمبر ١٩٦٩
- المنشئ
- Sirhan, Bassem
- سرحان، باسم
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