On the drive back to the teacher’s apartment in Tripoli, Adam scares me with some anti-Israeli propaganda stories.
I remember that these horror stories are the same “cutting off the women’s breasts so they can’t feed their babies” stories the “Allies” used to tell about the German Gestapo “Huns” during the Second World War. Still, propaganda stories like these always seem freshly malicious and can be repeated and believed about any enemy you wish to slander—and, unfortunately, the original accounts probably have more truth in them then I would like to believe! But horror stories like these are guaranteed to catch your attention.
The propaganda slide show at the Hadasa Hospital in Jerusalem was not so crude as these stories but was just as convincing about the bestiality of the Arab enemy as these tales are of the Zionist enemy.
Sometimes all it takes to change heroes into enemies is to cross a border. All you have to do is reverse the roles of the good guys and the bad guys from the neighboring country!
But sometimes in this part of the world all it takes to effect the change of friend to enemy is to cross a street! In fact maniacs thirsting for your blood can surround you without your even leaving your home!
Paranoia time and who is safe and no wonder these people seem crazy!
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