The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes (ص 9)

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The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes (ص 9)

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question marks, we are only expressing thoughts which cross
the minds of many Arabs, and which worry Arab information
personnel when they think of the future of “working” for
Palestine in the U.S. The experience of the effects of informa-
tion on an American community could be useful for such per-
sonnel.
The following are the major conclusions that were reached
on the basis of the study’s findings :-—
First, the Americans in Lebanon agree with what we
keep repeating about the fact that Zionist propaganda and
information misleads American public opinion, through the
American mass media. This confirmation by Americans sup-
ports our condemnation of the American communications sys-
tem. Two-thirds of the Americans in Lebanon admit, very frank-
ly, to the prejudice of the American mass media against the
Arabs. None of them, however, stated that the American
mass media was prejudiced in favor of the Arabs Only 3
per cent believed that the American mass media was unpreju-
diced and objective. Hence, two-thirds of the Americans in
Lebanon confirm that the picture, drawn by mass media in
their country, about the Palestine problem is distorted, mis-
leading and doubtful.
Second, without saying why, half of the Americans in
Lebanon stated that they were ignorant of the facts of the
Palestine problem before leaving their country. (We assume
that the main reason behind the ignorance of the Americans

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The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes

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ديسمبر ١٩٦٩

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Sirhan, Bassem

سرحان، باسم

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