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Continued “All we like sheep, have gone astray, and turned, every one, to his own way”
“And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
And many more beautiful lines for those who follow Christ. Isaiah promised that the fallen monarchy of King David would be restored, and all Christians believe that from his chain of linage a carpenter of Galilee named Joseph became the adopter-father of Jesus Christ. The purpose and message of this book was to foretell the Messiah whom the Jews of today ignore and denounce; it was not a declaration of war on the 4 million Arabs who are trying to live in Damascus, as Israelis and Christian-Zionists would
have it.
Pastors by the thousands, like Darien Bennett, use dispensational scrabble to pick, choose and patch together scriptures to achieve a pre-conceived purpose placing Israel on the throne next to a second place Jesus. Sadly they have chosen war, not peace, as a goal. The Christian Right cannot be Christian because it is biblically un-Christian.
The press’s involvement in false prophesy: The most bazaar element of Pastor Bennett’s story is that the non-Christian, secular, pro-Israel press, which would claim to be fired by justice and logic, gave his distorted story credence and validated it by coverage on the 10:00 PM, NBC News without challenge. NBC did not show the crushed and burned homes and bodies of the Lebanese. Obviously, the media wants the pastor’s story to be heard, which is more evidence that the press is covering for the crimes of
Israel, and does not flinch at promoting Christian-Zionism to do so, no matter how un-Christian the doctrine.
How can any one fail to notice that the captured Israeli corporal was not “kidnapped” as if he was a little girl with a lollypop grabbed at the day school; he was an Israeli soldier on active duty in an ongoing war in Gaza…he was likely nabbed on Lebanese turf, and he is a prisoner of war by any measure. His captors (Hezbollah) acted humanly not to kill him, as they could obviously have done. Hezbollah is no more or less than displaced Palestinians and sympathizers in Lebanon who have formed a resistance
to the ongoing 55 year old imprisonment and exiling of their kin,
Israel holds some 8000 Palestinians captive, who were mostly captured on their own home ground and who have been removed to Israel and are held without trial. But the press does not make this 8000 to 1 comparison. It labels democratically elected Hamas “terrorists’ but supports Israel’s claim to have a right to assassinate and replace the government elected by the imprisoned Philistines of Gaza city. This is rarely mentioned on CBS, and Pastor Bennett may never have thought of it.
Whenever Israel incinerates a Gaza family in their home they are usually identified with a “suspected” terrorist, a Hamas official, or are someone thought to have fired homemade rockets. But the press has never, not once, investigated these reports to find out if the characterizations are truth or propaganda. The dead are forgotten before they are in the ground, and the label becomes permanent because there is no one to protest!
We hear on CBS the accusations that the rockets used in Lebanon are from Iran. So what? The rockets fired by the Israelis are made in the USA and are fired from American-made planes and helicopters, and the media never points this out. This lack of balance indicates our media is covering for the Israelis’ acts.
Another profound and almost humorous example of the Media covering for Israel’s sins also occurred on July 14 when, during a Fox 5 News live broadcast from Gaza reporter David Lee Miller and his film crew came under Israeli fire from an Israeli outpost they used for background. . The film clip went around the Internet.
The panicked film crew had to dive for cover behind their van (with press in big letters on it), leaving the camera behind. Needless to say everyone was upset, but not too frightened to cover for Israel. The New York based anchor apologetically justified the Israeli attack on his own journalist, postulating that the Israelis' gunmen might not have known the reporters were press and might have mistook the “Camera as a weapon.” One of the junior news’ staff members openly scoffed at his boss’s
characterization,'I bet he will learn not do that again'.
The most damming evidence of unchallenged media support for the nonsensical and truly unsupportable claims coming from the Religious Right is that CBS does not ask traditional Christians to respond with our understanding of what Jesus would say about Gaza and Lebanon.
The media has now become totally silent on the subject of Israel’s invasion of the 1.25 million Gazans, packed together like fish in a barrel where they are systematically starved by day and terrorized by night in a cage half the size of Manhattan Island. Foreign press crews tell us the assassinations and starvation are going on day by day…and are unnoticed in the USA because the media does not show us.
CONCLUSION:
Restoring an Affordable Policy of Peace: This author stated: 'Mr. Bush has already spent all his political power and will be lucky to ride out his term in one piece. The Warmakers need a proxy front man to start the next war, and provide an excuse for the USA to be drawn into it. That proxy is Israel; US citizens pay the bills'. (2)
The 20 odd year old World War On Islam can currently be defined as the systematic bully assassinations and starvation and theft of three populations, the people of Iraq, Gaza, and Lebanon. We are told there will soon be at least two more, Syria and Iran. <END>
COMMENTARY: We Hold These Truths wants to do our part to stop it.
The real propaganda root of the war problem is the combined propaganda power of the much-deceived Christian Right, and the outright Zionist controlled news media. We will not soon change the institutional news media any more than we will suddenly find an “honest Congress.” Both are pipedreams in the foreseeable future, but what can be changed and countered is the power of the churches to do wrong while dreaming and claiming to follow Christ and do right. (4)
The Christian-Right-Zionists trade on a deadly game of scriptural scrabble that kills every day in the Mideast. Those who are Jesus followers can be rescued from their leaders because they will recognize truth and can respond to common sense. Many evangelical Christian churchgoers and pastors are not Christian Zionists, they are simply involved in the culture of the mega church. This writer was one of these and was corrected by someone with a well-studied view of scriptures, coupled with a modicum of good
judgment. I am not the only one.
Pastor Bennett and every pastor needs to be told that those who support un-Christian serial killings in the name of God have the blood of the innocent on their hands. Most of the Christian Right is not right about preserving life, therefore, it cannot be Christian. Religious leaders bear an added responsibility for veracity because they are trusted; therefore, they need to be called to account directly in front of their congregations. This is the mission of Project Strait gate. Join it. (5.)
Endnotes:
(1) http://www.whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=896
(2) http://www.whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=897
(3) http://www.whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=796
(4) http://www.whtt.org/show
(5) http://www.whtt.org/straitgate/index.php?id=14&news=1 |
