Since we spend so much time dealing wih ME issues, however, it is important to know how societies there funcion and what new developments there are in these societies.

The story of this trial is almost laughaable, in Western terms. But it shows a crack opening in the wall of the old ways.

“By an odd quirk of human nature, people tend not to listen when they’re busy ducking rocks being thrown at them. Yelling is counter-productive when discourse works better. But if we have no idea of another’s values and how he came to those values, the yelling never works”.

The Bush Administration should pay attention to these words of wisdom in dealing with the Mideast.