Al-Jazeera television premiered with its international channel last week, but the only way an American viewer can watch it is in on the internet. That's because none of the cable companies will agree to carry it. Of what are they afraid? That the American people might actually learn about how the Arab world looks at us?  It's hard to imagine anything more counterproductive than keeping Al-Jazeera from our airwaves.

I saw the effects of this type of lunacy when I was in Israel this summer. 

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