Word: regionality
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...environment of their country. Proof of this incapability came as soon as their prepared and seemingly coached remarks were completed and the audience asked questions. Very basic topics were brought up, such as what the children thought of media coverage or what they thought of the politics in the region, and in several cases, the children simply could not form opinions, even after multiple translations were offered. The children had their talking points down very well, but when it came to independent thought, they were unable to expand their original assertions...
Picture Balata perpetrated these falsehoods and propaganda to convince Americans that the Israelis are the “terrorists,” that the surgical strikes of the IDF are equivalent to the Palestinian suicide bombings, and that police actions which are necessary to maintain the stability of the region are worse than the indiscriminate murder of women and children. Tahreer photographs “martyrs…because they are our heroes.” Those who murder innocent Israelis only provoke violence. Those who harbor these murders deserve to be treated like the criminals they are. While...
...argues that Christian-American faith works to support the Israelis, while economic concerns fall in favor of the Arabs. Rather than informing the American people about the Middle East, popular depictions by everyone from Mark Twain to Edith Wharton to Disney tend to propagate a fantastic image of the region...
Although Oren’s book cannot offer any magical potions to solve America’s conflict in the Middle East, it makes the necessary attempt to counter the nation’s ignorance and unblinkingly inform the American people of their long and complex history with a region whose future is so intimately tied up with theirs. And that knowledge may be the beginnings of a solution, in and of itself...
...Psychosis, for one, can never be ruled out. Russell Weston, a 41-year-old killer who went on a shooting spree in the Capitol Building in Washington in 1998, was a paranoid schizophrenic. Brain injury in an otherwise healthy person can lead to similar violence. Damage to the frontal region of the brain, which regulates what psychologists call the observing ego, or the limbic region, which controls violence, reflection and defensive behavior, can shut down internal governors and trigger all manner of unregulated behavior. "Somebody who had damage to both regions would be a bad player for sure," says forensic...