Perspective
- Now Think On This
by Steve
Martin
Walter
Cronkite, the evening news anchor for CBS Evening News, from 1962-1981, would end
his reporting broadcast with the usual words, “And that’s the way it is.”
Walter was trusted by most Americans because he gave the news without adding
his perspective or slant to a newsworthy segment. He did the reporting, not the
commentary.
In this
decade I listen to several news broadcasts, observing and listening as to how
they report the news. Several you know in advance will have a slanted
perspective, wanting to persuade the viewing audience to their analysis of incidents
being broadcast, giving the listeners words and photo/video clips that would
present their side of the story, whether that side is the actual truth or it
has been given an added edge to it.
In this
hour that we live, common news items, including those of moral issues, are often
given airtime and presented in a way to influence the thinking of the viewers.
Intentional commentaries, or giving sound bites of what the newscaster wants
their audience to hear, never will tell the full story in the time permitted.
With this accepted format, what one sees and hears is then received as the full
truth, without question. If the viewer has little or no knowledge of the subject
presented, it becomes the “way it is” and accepted as the complete truth of that
story.
Worldwide
newscasts and reporting of events surrounding the small nation of Israel have
become more and more slanted, as newsgroups and reporters have already gone
into a situation, knowing how they want to portray the situation. Their intent
is to make whatever response or action Israel takes to be as the aggressor and
the bad guy. Having a pre-conceived attitude that the response Israel employs is
one of offense rather than defense, the news reporting will convey to their
audience that Israel is the wrongful country.
As these
past 60 plus years of the current state of Israel have gone by, whenever the
government of Israel has responded to the intended actions of their surrounding
neighbors to destroy them, the worldwide perspective has been to blame Israel
as the aggressor, the offender, the ones who created the act of war and should
be held accountable for the resulting actions. It seems as if the other side,
the one whom history can and will prove to be the instigator, has done no
wrong.
Recently
Israel’s acts of defense are reported as if those killed in their rightful response
are totally innocent, having nothing to do with the actions of their own
elected governments. We are given the impression that Israel has no regard for
the lives of the assaulting country’s civilians, and ruthlessly slaughters
whomever and destroys whatever they want.
A full
and clear look at the situation will tell the exact and proper truth.
When a
government in power uses hospitals, mosques and civilian homes to store and
fire rockets at Israel, and then commands their own citizens to stand in and
around these buildings, knowing the rightful response is to destroy the destroyer,
the terrible pictures of the civilians killed will be what makes the news
airtime, causing the world to loudly object to the war actions of Israel’s IDF
(Israel Defense Force). Little is questioned as to why any legitimate government
would put their own citizens in harms way, knowing any just response from the
other nation would be to destroy such targets used against them to kill and destroy.
If
America, Canada, Europe, or any other country was continually fired upon by
another nation, seeking to destroy it and its people, the proper response would
be to fight back, and take out that which is doing the intentional action of
wanting to annihilate your country. That is the right response any country
would do. That is what should be presented and broadcast in truth to the world,
as in this case for Israel too.
We
commend Israel for warning the citizens of the attacking country via cell phone
calls, leaflets dropped from the air, and other means of notifying them prior
to attacking the ammunition storages of the enemy. What other nation in
historical wartime has done that, with the effort to prevent civilian
casualties?
Rather
that portraying Israel as the aggressor and the offender, we should be hearing
of them justifiably protecting their civilians from the killing and destruction
that their enemies have vowed to do to them. They have spoken loud and clear
that this is their ultimate purpose for Israel – for complete destruction,
until only they have all the land.
But the
God of Israel has other plans. And He is protecting His people in their Land.
We stand with them too.
Now think
on this,
Steve Martin
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Now Think On This #161 - “Perspective” by Steve Martin
Date: In the year of our Lord 2014 (07.13.14)
Sunday at 11:30 am in Charlotte, NC
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