The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes (ص 12)
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- The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes (ص 12)
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we are in good shape and that the Americans in Lebanon are
truly convinced of our view. Less than 25 per cent of them
believe, after being acquainted with our point of view, that
we are completely right in the conflict. The rest of them do
not comple‘ely agree with our view of the conflict. They
agree with some of what we see as our right and, at the same
time, they believe some Zionist claims. Hence they give the
Zionists support and sympathy which is more or less equal
to that which they grant us.
Fifth, there is a wide-spread belief that the Christian
church in the U.S. (especially the Protestant Church) plays a
big role in “poisoning” the minds of the Americans as far as
the Palestine problem is concerned, The church is believed to
conceal the facts about the Palestine problem and to prepare
the American public to believe Zionist claims. This is the
reason which made those in charge of our study attempt to
measure the truth behind that belief. The findings show that
the church does not seem to be a very instrumental element
in making the Americans “‘pro-Israel.’’ Only one-third of the
Americans in Lebanon stated that the church affected their
view of the Palestine problem. But, even this one-third did
not say that the church made them more sympathetic to the
Jews. One-third of it (one-ninth of our sample) said that the
church made them less sympathetic to the Jews (but did not
necessarily make them sympathetic to us). Still not all those
who were made more sympathetic to the Jews became sym-
pathetic to “Israel.” The church does not affect the purely
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- The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes
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- ديسمبر ١٩٦٩
- المنشئ
- Sirhan, Bassem
- سرحان، باسم
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