The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes (ص 14)
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- The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes (ص 14)
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held by the Americans in Lebanon about these two Palestinian
demands. The outcome might not be very encouraging. How-
ever it is not very discouraging either. It is not encouraging
because we hoped that the Americans who live among us
would understand and believe us more than they do now. Any-
way, the understanding and belief are not missing altogether.
Almost half the Americans in Lebanon were convinced of
the Palestinian Revolution’s assertion that it is not antt-
semitic. The other half were either not convinced or not sure.
All the previous discussion speaks of confidence. It
leaves the task of convincing other people to our information.
However as far as hearing of the assertion is concerned, the
situation is quite different: a majority of the Americans in
Lebanon (94 per cent) had heard of our assertion that we are
not anti-Semitic and that we want a democratic state in Pales-
tine. This fact reflects the special attention paid by the Amer-
icans in Lebanon to this specific subject.
Since Zionists and their American collaborators spread
rumors that the Palestinian Resistance Movement is a purely
communist movement (they give the fact that it has some left-
wing elements, and that it has won the support of many leftist
countries and movements, as evidence to their claims which
aim to antagonize American public opinion towards the
movement), we were interested in knowing whether the Ameri-
cans in Lebanon were fooled by such rumors. We found that
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- The American Community in Lebanon and the Palestine Problem: A Study in Changing Attitudes
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- Sirhan, Bassem
- سرحان، باسم
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