Gary Fitleberg, November 9, 2003

America is against Arabic media that are "propaganda outlets" that perpetuate "poison and lies"!!! The Arab/Islamist nations are winning the "War on Perpetuating Political Propaganda" and spread their extremist fanatical fundamentalism against Western civilization through a message of hatred, incitement, terrorism, and violence. But not for much longer under the watchful eye of the American eagle!!!

The Arabic television channels Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya are "propaganda outlets" that perpetuate "poison and lies" about the United States, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz declared.

Following a speech in Washington about Iraq's reconstruction, Wolfowitz was asked about the negative U.S. image in Middle Eastern and Muslim countries. While the United States needs to do a better job at public diplomacy, he said, it is hard to fight the television stations.

"Part of our problem is that there are very well-funded propaganda outlets -- commercial ones like Al Jazeera, like Al Arabiya -- that just spew poison and lies and misrepresentation day after day, and it is hard to fight that," he said.

"I think some of our friends who fund stations like al-Jazeera could do a better job of at least having them portray the truth," he said.

Al Jazeera is based in Qatar and receives funding from the Qatari government, while Al Arabiya is based in Dubai and gets money from the Saudi Arabian and other Arab governments. Both channels are independent and are not government-run.

The United States has been at odds with the two satellite channels over the coverage of the war in Iraq and had protested the airing of video and audio tapes containing messages from Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda.

One Al Jazeera correspondent who broke the "exclusive" story with Bin Laden is now accused of being an Al Qaeda collaborator and operative.

The time has come for the international "War on Terrorism" to focus on one root cause of all the Arab/Islamist message of hatred, incitement, terrorism, and violence by clearly focusing on the Arab/Islamist "War on Perpetuating Political Propaganda" and bringing it to a dead halt. The Arab/Islamist media is one of the main threats as a tool of terrorism. Other means include the brainwashing of citizens since birth through childhood, through the teenage years on through adulthood. The message of terrorism is taught on a daily basis through both the private and public education system propagated in camps, schools, madrassas and mosques where it spreads like wildfire.

America recognizes Free Speech is not Hate Speech!!!

Gary Fitleberg is a Political Analyst specializing in International Relations with emphasis on Middle East affairs.

Copyright © 2003 Gary Fitleberg