Hostage Rescue Bombshell: U.S. special forces & armor advanced into Gaza via the pier, massacred young boy's family, gave him a genital examination, and put a cig out on his flesh.

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Goddarn zoomers talk media literacy and believe clear lies from a random kid on twitter. Anyone who's lived in the ME knows you can't trust proles to tell you directions right, much less anything else (and I like Arabs but let's be real)

Hamady and others report that Arabs suffer from a blurred perception and the inability to distinguish between truth and falsehood,32 Harkabi, writing after the 1967 war, agrees with her and claims that this deficiency in the Arab

character accounts for their collapse in 1967. Harkabi, who is struck by the frequency of lying among Arab leaders, traces this phenomenon to traditional Arab philosophy and language which supposedly sanction lying if it is designed to achieve good consequences. Patai, quoting Prothro, explains this phenomenon a little differently by tracing it to verbal threats, rarely carried out by mothers in their child-rearing practices. This situation apparently comes about because of the lack of reality-testing mechanisms in the Arab world. As Patai puts it, 'In the Arab world, thought and verbal expression can be relatively uncorrelated with what the circumstances actually allow',

Arab social scientists, trained in the West, tend to follow the same construct.

Thus, Professors Ammar's and Al-Azmi6 portray the 'Fahlawi' as the main component of the Arab basic personality. They report that the 'Fahlawi' is a highly adaptive person, who assimilates the new with relative ease, and who is always ready to express superficial agreement and fleeting amiability. The

'Fahlawi' is quick-witted, often using this wit to cover up unpleasant reality.

He is self-assertive, a quality that does not derive from self-confidence but rather from a loss of confidence and a lack of desire to assess situations objectively.

The 'Fahlawi' is also adept at 'removal and relegation', a technique by which the individual removes responsibility from himself to others or relegates it to an area outside his own sphere. This makes it easy to justify any embarrassing situation in which the individual might find himself. According to Al-Azm, it was the

'Fahlawi' mentality that was at the root of Arab defeat in 1956 and in 1967 This syndrome is related to what others have called the 'lack of reality testing' among the Arabs.