Middle East: LIsten to What They’re Saying, in their own language, not English,   By Barry Rubin:
Here’s a tip for understanding the Middle East. For Arabic-speaking countries and groups, there are two parallel lines of discourse going on: one in English, one in Arabic. The English-language one is directed outward at the West; the Arabic-speaking is for the direction of policymakers, opinionmakers, and the masses. Not surprisingly, the first is more moderate; the latter, more radical.
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The exact proportions vary with each country or movement. But even in Egypt, a large-scale recipient of U.S. aid, the state-controlled newspapers publish an almost unending stream of anti-American hate propaganda. A key problem, however, is that most Western policymakers, opinionmakers, and journalists either don’t take non-English talk seriously or aren’t even aware of it.
In contrast, democratic states like Israel or America says basically the same thing in both languages, with at most very small variations. Perhaps that’s one reason why many or most Westerners aren’t aware of the wide gap that exists in other societies.
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The variation between true and false discourse—though sometimes in the same language—is, of course, quite ancient. In the “Communist Manifesto” of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote:
“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution.”
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