News Roots of Middle-Eastern Terrorism

[Dissident Dan]

I have a hard time figuring out which portions of the first post are direct quotes of the waiter and which are comments from Toeinsing. Either way, one of them have their facts screwed up. If it's Toeinsing, he then he's distorting the reasons for the waiters response. If it's the waiter who is making the fact and figure statements, I would say he's the victim of propaganda.

Unless it was in quotation marks, it wasn't a direct quote. Most of it is Toensing's paraphrasing of what the waiter said (Toensing may have taken the liberty of elaborating with specific statistics; I am not sure). Of course, when the book reads, "A UNICEF study in 1999 backed him up," Toensing is the one speaking.

Which facts are screwed up?

I think that they definitely are victims of propoganda over there (especially in Palestine and Jerusalem), as I have mentioned in previous posts. I think that that is something that we should be aware of, both to try to diminish it and to try to predict how things will be spun. We should also acknowledge that not everything that we have done has had the best effects. I also think that not everything we've done has been done with good intentions.