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...been widely articulated. Yes, there was and is a deep sense of frustration because of the bias shown by the U.S. to Israel and because of America's cruel insistence on continued sanctions against Iraq. Plus, for historical reasons, Muslims and Arabs can always feel bitterness toward America: in the early 1950s, the CIA helped topple the elected government of Iran to reinstall the Shah. In the late 1980s, the U.S. left Afghanistan very messy after using it as a battleground against the Soviets...
...Middle East, which many Arab nations term pro-Israel, Avnery said that the American administration faces the complex job of creating an international coalition to help fight terrorism. This would have to include Arab and Muslim states, Avnery said, many of whom perceive an unwarranted pro-Israel bias in U.S. foreign policy...
...many a Harvard intellectual this idea is probably seems so unfathomable as not to be worthy of their “enlightened” discourse. To them, America’s failure to adequately defend Bosnia in the early 1990s demonstrates our religious bias against Muslims, while the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia to protect the Kosovar Muslims is a display of U.S. attempts at hegemony. The U.S.-imposed sanctions on Iraq are responsible for 1.5 million children’s deaths, while Saddam Hussein is absolved of responsibility for delaying the implementation of the oil-for-food program for more...
...Iranian officials groping for a response found themselves still trying to shake off the old revolutionary mindset. Two decades of isolation have left even the savviest leaders unsure about their positions and wary of catastrophic errors of judgment. State television, with its hard-line bias and Soviet-style programming, has long ceased to be a reliable source of information. So leaders watched cnn and Al-Jazeera, an Arabic all-news station, for the latest news...
What goes unnoticed in these discussions is that assertions of bias, as with all historical interpretations, depend on very general assumptions about the way humans think, act and write—that “people generally act according to their own interests,” “those without power envy those who have it,” “men seek honor as well as riches.” Those among us who view bias as an absolute bar to objective judgment would shrink from making such universal claims on the residents of a faraway place...