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Originally Posted by mindfulcoug
Well, the perception IS changing. I remember when I joined the board, I was told to "tone it down" becuase there was no way the board would stand my rant about Israel. And now that I have been reading your posts through all these years, I clearly sense the change.
Plus for Hamas to actually care enough to change American perception is a chance to be alive and have a decent lives. The luxury they obviously can't afford.
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There is so much hate and violence that people tune it out, until it is on one's front doorstep. The realities of support for Palestinians is that there is virtually none in the US. Israeli support transcends party lines and even reason.
The problem for the Middle East, if it cares what the US does and thinks, is most Americans view the Middle East as one monolithic whole, and perceive it through the lens of the worst actors, such as Syria, sometimes Iran, Hamas, Libya and Iraq. Because the states are so distant and alien, the average voter see things simplistically and ignores the dissonance.