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From: reza@ihuxb.UUCP (Reza Taheri)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Understanding the Shiites
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 17:55:44 EDT
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This article in a followup to a series of earlier articles on if and why
Muslim Middle-Easterners hate the US.

> > Muslim Middle Easterns hate (OK, "dislike"?) Israel and
> > therefore they hate the US even though their governments may have been
> > friendly with the US for less than a decade.
> > 
> > H. Reza Taheri
> Talk about sweeping generalizations!  SOME Muslim Middle-Easterners do
> hate the U. S., but many do not.
   
   I guess I got a little carried away in my explaining how the US
support of Israel is responsible for the hatred of the Middle-
Easterners towards the US.  Obviously, not all Middle-Easterners hate
the US, but the US-Israeli relationship is a major reason why many do.

> Of course, the official positions
> of Arab governments do not necessarily reflect the views of their people.
> Unfortunately, we will never be able to have a secret ballot to determine
> the percentages of those who like, dislike, or hate the U. S.  It is true
> that much of the bad feeling in the ARAB world towards the U. S. does
> stem from U. S. support of Israel.  I doubt very much, however, that
> Khomeini and Iran would stop hating the U. S. if we stopped supporting
> Israel.  I suppose Khomeini hates Iraq (he did even before Iraq invaded
> Iran) because Iraq supports Israel -) -) -).  Khomeini just likes to hate.

   My points exactly, as I said in the article you are responding to.
I'd say we are in violent agreement.

H. Reza Taheri
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