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O 141304Z JAN 09
FM AMCONSUL SAO PAULO
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SUBJECT: Media Reaction: Middle East: Gaza and Arab-Israeli 
Engagement Sao Paulo 
 
Title- Collective Selfishness 
 
Column in liberal Folha de S.Paulo (1-13) by gues 
journalist-columnist Mateus Soares de Azevedo sttes: "humiliated 
and offended Palestinians have been taken to the Gaza strip, 
expelled [to Gaza] by the new land owners, the Israeli 
Zionists....Zionism is a kind of 'collective selfishness'. For us 
[Zionists], everything; for others, nothing. If individual 
selfishness does not look pretty, imagine the collective 
[side].....To Support this war [in Gaza] is to justify its brutality 
and horrors; it's [the same as] being misled by [Zionist] 
propaganda." 
 
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