Americans Want to Hear ...
Yesterday, in a mothers day out, I met some ladies from different nationalities... a couple of Australians, and an American caught my attention...
The minute they found out I was Lebanese - which is not very hard to guess anymore, as I am constantly obssesed with the news, and I follow television screens around the place like some lunatic - they came over and asked as to why the Arabic speaking news TV networks do not subtitle their issues. I was shoccked, I had never even thought that the non-politically oriented Americans were interested in hearing the other point of view...
I actually went as far as saing: You have CNN, Fox News, BBC and Euro News (the latter is in my opinion the fairest of all stations talking about the Lebanese/Israeli war in English)... but the reply was, we want to understand more, we are sure the above-mentioned stations are only representing one side of the story (the Israeli/American one of couse).
This meeting, insignificant as it might sound, restored my faith in the human brotherhood. A faith I almost totally lost after the massacre of Qana.
posted by no noise at 12:39 AM
5 Comments:
not everybody is an ass... there are good and bad human beings. hope is never lost.
:) sure do hope
they do have good intentions. and when you want to know, you can... they live in an arab state. there is an aljazeera website in english. there is an annahar site in english.
when i wanted to hear what israel had to say, i opened 5 or 6 sites in hebrew, and finally found one that was translated...
they have good intentions, but we have learned that it is not enough. if you can't get it on TV, for god's sake log on to the internet, and don't make excuses for "not knowing". ignorance is not an excuse.
that being said, i agree that arab states should try to have instant translation for their programs ;)
PS anonymous above was me, don't get all defensive :)
anonymous, I thought about that too.
But, well, at least they showed willingness to know, and I salute then for it.
It is a first step. I encouraged them a little, and I think they will got that extra mile now.
I wish every one else would.
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