Many of you will remember that famous line from the television program, Dallas, as the world as glued to the screens after old J.R. Ewing, scumbag of the world, was shot. There were bets being made in Las Vegas on the revelation of who actually shot old J.R. Weekly the show's writers would have people going down rabbit trails in the story lines in trying to ascertain who actually finally shot the worst man every shown on TV for he has developed every terrible plan to upset applecarts in business and personal relationships. We all wanted to hate old J.R. and how he kept making life awful for Bobby and Sue Ellen. Cannot believe I remember that but hey, it made a point!
Well here we are in the summer of 2014 with so many J.R.'s shooting and rocketing each other and the media machines are in ultra high gear spinning, yes, spinning, their propagandist musings on actually what is happen and to whom. If you read and listen long enough, you would begin to thin it is all the Easter bunny's fault or even still George W or maybe it was Eisenhower's fault. Hum, let me ponder that one for a minute or two!
Yesterday I swapped some email messages with a wonderful former student that lives near that troubled zone and is a native of one of those nations. I admire her, respect her and I know she will always speak her heart and her mind. So I asked the question about her opinion of what is happening in Israel, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, etc for she is from the general region, is well educated in America and is a business partner with her family in her native country; a country that has tremendous influence on that region. Her response affirmed all over again that history is much stronger in its hold than the TV reports meaning that she "hated Israel" for doing what they are doing in Gaza. That caused me to take pause and get past the scab of emotion and being an American in seeking to fully understand such blatant thoughts about Israel in 2014 by a very smart young lady and professional.
Further, it affirmed that the hate focused toward Israel as a nation and as a people has not changed since Old Testament times for I am reading through the Old Testament daily and just finished II Kings this morning. You can readily see the seeds of the angst and hate 3,000 years ago recorded for humanity to study that takes us, the world, to where we reside today. My first reaction to the comment was to feel aghast at such a harsh response to a nation and a people that has suffered literally forever. But you also learn over time and perception is reality so if the perception of Israel is that of only wanting to occupy and annihilate another neighbor people, there are not words today from me that will change that. But my mind went strategically to how the media has shown itself to be so integral to crafting mindsets. We saw that with Goebbels in Hitler's time in altering the minds of an entire German people toward an entire race, the Jews, to the point of seeking to annihilate that race. Yes, it can happen today!
The spin machines are in hyper-drive and it is amazing how convincing they can become. When I listened to the theory yesterday that Israel knew that if they attacked Hamas, it would give Israel the green light to attack Gaza. My heart sank in realizing that literally daily Hamas has rocketed Israel for months and spent billions of aid money, Hamas, building tunnel networks from Gaza into Israel for the apparent purpose of attacking Israeli positions. I just found that logic totally wrong but then in a flash realized that history, culture and media and focus a mindset, a paradigm, in any direction and almost nothing will change that include truth and rational logic. Yes, I am pro-Israel for the Bible is quite clear on whose side He reside as do I. But I also seek to want to understand the continuing generational desire to see Israel removed from the world's maps even in the minds of educated, intelligent, young people; it is simply amazing to me!
The last twenty-four hours have been another dose of reality to me in how the power of media can alter anything. We are all tired of seeing the MH17 photos, remember MH370, yes, still missing, the thugs in the Ukraine anger us at their coldness on the whole matter. We are just overwhelmed by the rampant and escalating hostilities in the Middle East with this Israel / Palestinian debacle residing at the center of the vortex of violence. Will it stop? Well, yes ... until the rearming is uploaded and it will start again and again and again; that is the nature of Israel's existence; just like in the Old Testament. You should read it; please!
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