Please Choose Someone Else!

My pastor recently returned from a trip to Israel, where he and a group of pastors toured the usual holy sites: Golgotha, the Garden Tomb, the Sea of Galilee, etc.

Also part of the trip was information about the current situation there in Israel, with the shifting political situation in many of the surrounding countries with doubts about whether the “Arab Spring” will, in the end, be positive for Israel.

It’s actually not looking good.

I forget what Jewish philosopher/comedian said it, but it’s easy to understand why some in that beleaguered country might wish, if they are God’s Chosen People, “Please God, choose someone else!”

My pastor told of meeting more than one Palestinian who told him frankly that he much preferred the Israelis to Hamas, which rules Gaza.

He also told of seeing video, edited by an American News organization to make it appear that the Israeli army had shot an unarmed Palestinian civilian, but then seeing the raw footage showing the Israeli’s taking an AK-47 from the man that he had been firing at the Israeli’s before they shot him.

That’s why we call them the “Lame-stream Media”.

It’s been my experience that, every time I have had first hand knowledge of any news story, the media has gotten it, not just wrong, but usually 180-degrees out of phase.  The adage is true when it comes to the American media: Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.