Wednesday, April 24, 2002

Arabs excell at PR

This link from Best of the Web, substantiates use of P.R. techniques by Arabs, who basically have no other choice. They can't win wars or deliver economic improvement, so they fall back on songs, slogans and demonstrations.

"We are currently at the height of a war in which the Arab armies are playing no role because of their impotence and fear of what the United States will say. Volunteers cannot cross the border after Egypt almost completely closed it off and in Jordan, a state of alert has been declared along the border. That leaves us, we who feel the pain of Palestine, only to deal with it on the intellectual level," explains a member of the writers' association.


By "dealing with it on the intellectual level," he means attending conferences, writing and performing songs, developing slogans, demonstrating, and giving interviews like this one. One of the accepted modes of protest at present is the repeated call to boycott American products and the United States in general. But even this boycott suffers from a lack of clear goals."

My favorite was a song called "God Protects Arab Children." Is that how they describe wrapping them up in dynamite vests and sending them out to kill other innocent people?

May I suggest a method that might work? How about boycotting terrorists and demanding better schools and decent jobs?

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