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“The continual linking of the notions of terrorist and terrorism with Muslims and the Middle East is, essentially, an act of propaganda that cannot help but promote "Islamophobia."”

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Lawrence Davidson

Limited information is available about Lawrence Davidson, who was born on June 21, 1945, and is of an unknown profession. more

“Unless this [Barack Obama] American administration is willing to diverge from the conventional American policy in the Middle East by changing its basic attitudes on crucial questions, foremost of them Palestine, and support genuinely the rights of people for independence, sovereignty and identity across the board, the only "resolve" one would hope from the USA is to stay out of the Middle East for a while.”

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Author:Ilan Pappe

“The worst crimes against humanity in the last half of the previous century and this century are carried out with conventional advanced weapons, upgraded daily by a greedy arms industry, super power's apathy and criminal ideologies. In the Middle East, Iran lags behind many other military powers in this respect.”

“While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed in recent years, the dissemination of these more updated views fails to reach the conventional educational system. For two main reasons: Politics can still subdue and censor views that are not endorsed ideologically, and academics have still not learned how to write openly, directly and, one should say, courageously about these issues.”

“Films, media, educational system and arts portray Muslims in a racist and negative way. The more interesting question is who is behind these images.”

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Author:Ilan Pappe

“In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the worst atrocities in the past decade have been in the Congo, the Eastern Congo, where maybe 5 million people have been killed.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The main mineral in your cellphone, coltan [a black metallic ore], comes from the Eastern Congo. Multinational corporations are there exploiting the very rich mineral resources of the region. A lot of them are backing militias which are fighting one other to gain control of the resources or a piece of the resources.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

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