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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Understanding the Shiites
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Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 14:54:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  1 14:54:30 1985
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> 	The U.S. literally supports the economy and the armed forces of
> 	Israel with it's generous aid. I am not surprised that the Middle
> 	East nations have nothing but hatred for the U.S. They see Isreal
> 	as the terrorist arm of the U.S., financed and supported by it.
> 	I can't help feeling that in many ways the U.S. is the second
> 	biggest terrorist organization in the world (next only to USSR).
> 
> 	I hope the American people and the administration realize soon that
> 	they are being extremely prejudiced and unfair in their treatment
> 	of the Middle East countries.
> 							- Raghu.

For your information, the United States has friendly relations with
Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, North Yemen, Saudi Arabia,
United Arab Emirates, Bahrein, Sudan, Somalia, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,
and Mauretania.  Even relations with Syria aren't all that bad.  What
Middle Eastern nations are you referring to?  Only Libya's
Kaddafi (a lunatic) and Soviet satellite South Yemen, of all Arab countries,
hate the U. S.  Most of the hatred of the U. S. in the Mid-East comes from
Iran, a non-Arab country which under the Shah had full and friendly
diplomatic relations with Israel.  Khomeini's anti-Americanism has virtually
nothing to do with the existence of Israel, but rather with U. S. support
of the Shah and a general reaction against Western "decadence".
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan