IMO baseless hatreds, conspiracies, and endemic corruption are all the result of how Pakistanis are taught to think. Examples:
- This past summer Hamas bombarded Israel with rockets and Israel eventually took military action to suppress them. Pakistanis looked only at what Israel's actions and thus classed the event as "Israeli aggression".
- In Anatoly Lieven's book, Pakistan, a Hard Country, the most outstanding example of corruption was perhaps that of the Baluchi tribal chief who lambasted his people for wasting precious water while he himself used acre-feet of it monthly to keep his lawn green.
- Even today there are Pakistanis who think 26/11 Mumbai murderer Kasab wasn't Pakistani, based on supposed flaws in his speaking.
I'm sure readers here can think of other examples. In each case Pakistanis seized upon information - hard or subjective - that buttressed their existing prejudices or preferred conclusion and discarded or ignored the remainder, resulting in errant judgments.
Contrast this with the oath taken by Americans serving as witnesses in court upon Bible or Koran: "...to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." Leaving relevant facts out in America is a no-no; in Pakistan it's par for the course.
This sort of thing may be characteristic of the culture but is also taught. Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in Prisoners of his trip to a Pakistani madrassa that once he expressed a different interpretation than his hosts the students responded by chanting together and drowning him out. Volume replaces critical analysis.
Whenever some of us start having a favorable opinion (or at least a neutral one) towards Israel, someone from you does some real shyt that pisses Pakistanis off.
Take the example of the prime time TV serial "Homeland" , which was written by Israeli and he casts all those indians in it with one single purpose - to malign Pakistan and show it in a worst possible shape.
What would you expect from Pakistanis in this case? A medal of honor as appreciation? Being a hyper sensitive country itself, no one other than Israel understands it better.
Then Jewish owned media doesnt help either, every now and then starting some shyt about Prophet, Quran or Muslims in the name of freedom of speech (which by the way is not available in case you wanted to ask few questions about WWII or why Germany is giving billions of dollar worth nuclear armed submarines to Israel as a gift etc.).
You have given some example, I can also give you tons others quoting Noam Chomsky and other jewish people about what they think about Zionists and how Israel is conducting a systematical genocide of indigenous people.
It is very easy to write-off others as conspiracy theoresits, and ride on the self-righteousnes horse, isnt it?
I personally favor having Pakistan-Israel relations established, but give us something that we can show to our people and tell them, "hey, see Israel is not our enemy, it is just another country in the world with whom we can establish normal relationships".