Ever been to the middle East? Was it really like the news tells you?

Question

Name the country too!

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Answer 1

I lived in Iran for 2 years a while ago, and it was nothing like I thought it would be. Although I hadn't seen it portrayed much in the media, it must have been bad, because my mum's family in UK were asking if we went to school on camel, and assumed we lived in a mud shack.

Answer 2

Baloney.  My wife was born in Aleppo, Syria, and she says what we see on the news over here is distorted, slanted, biased and just plain untrue.  She took me from being a supporter of the struggles of Israel to a real anti-Israeli position.  If you read the real history, and not the jewish revisionist version, even some books written by Israeli journalists, you see the whole thing in almost the exact opposite light that is constantly painted by the US mainstream (pro-Israeli) media.

What most people in the US have never heard of is the root cause of the hatred against the Israelis by most Arabs in the region.  You never hear this in the US media.  No one talks about it, but it started the whole thing.  In a one-year period in 1948-1949 the Zionists destroyed 435 Arab vilages and towns, killing the local Arab inhabitants or driving them off their land, then either demolishing the entire town or seizing the houses for jewish use.  So began the Arab refugee crisis that continues to this day.  The Israelis are in denial about this as they are about the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in international waters off Gaza, and as the Turks are in denial about the 1914-1915 genocide against the Armenians.

American news media is driven by special interests that portray the news they want you to hear and nothing more.

Answer 3

Never been I heard they kill g*y people their.

Answer 4

hmm..well it depends hw the news want to portray the country..  but let me tell u sumthin... the news never say it the way its done or heard...the say it the way they want it to be said or heard by others.

Answer 5

salaam sister, yes i have. been to Dubai, in the u.a.e and Damascus in Syria. lovely places. And the media tells little truth on the middle east and arab world in general

Answer 6

Been to Egypt,enjoyed it.Pretty much as the news portrays it.

Answer 7

Medias lieing..