- 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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