A seasoned reporter and editor with four years experience with the Associated Press's Jerusalem bureau, who self-describes as a "liberal," has had the courage to tell the truth about "mainstream" coverage of the Palestinian-Israel conflict. Matti Friedman's "Insiders Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth," published by The Tablet on August 26, is a fascinating glimpse, from a secular viewpoint, into current events prophesied in Scripture and explained only by Scripture. Friedman's report documents the widespread pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel sentiment among reporters. He describes it as "a hostile obsession with Jews ... among those who populate the news industry." The Bible describes it like this: "And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee" (Deut. 28:37). God warned Israel that if she rejected His law, He would reject her and evict her from the land and send her into the nations where she would experience bitter persecution. This was prophesied by Moses in Deuteronomy 28 in about 1450 BC before Israel had even entered the land under the leadership of Joshua. Friedman's report documents the fact that the "Israel story" takes up vastly more reporting resources than any other world story. Friedman says the news agencies "believe Israel to be the most important story on earth, or very close." The Bible describes it like this: "Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her" (Ezek. 5:5). God chose Israel as the instrument of His self-revelation to mankind, and Israel will continued to be "the most important story on earth" for a very long time! Friedman's report documents the extreme, unconscionable bias of not reporting on the corruption and inbred hatred of the "Palestinians." He says, "If you follow mainstream coverage, you will find nearly no real analysis of Palestinian society or ideologies, profiles of armed Palestinian groups, or investigation of Palestinian government. ... The Hamas charter, for example, calls not just for Israel's destruction but for the murder of Jews and blames Jews for engineering the French and Russian revolutions and both world wars; the charter was never mentioned in print when I was at the AP, though Hamas won a Palestinian national election and had become one of the region's most important players" ("Insiders Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth"). The Bible describes the reason for this amazing duplicity in mainstream news reporting as follows: "Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience" (Eph. 2:2). The devil is in control of this present world. He hates Israel, and unbelievers are his instruments. He "worketh in them." Friedman's report documents the fact that Israel is a fragile island in a vast ocean of hatred. He describes it as follows: "A knowledgeable observer of the Middle East cannot avoid the impression that the region is a volcano and that the lava is radical Islam, an ideology whose various incarnations are now shaping this part of the world. ISRAEL IS A TINY VILLAGE ON THE SLOPES OF THE VOLCANO" ("Insiders Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth"). The reason why Israel has not been destroyed after 2,000 years of wandering and the reason why the modern state of Israel has not been destroyed though outrageously outnumbered and outgunned is described by the Bible as follows: "And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee" (Deut. 30:1-3). God promised to keep Israel in her 2,000-year-old dispersion and to bring her back to her land. This is beginning to be fulfilled, and though Israel must still go through a lot of trouble because of her unbelief, nothing can destroy her. Friedman concludes his analysis of mainstream news coverage of Israel as follows: "Many of the people deciding what you will read and see from here view their role not as explanatory but as political.Coverage is a weapon to be placed at the disposal of the side they like." (Friday Church News Notes, September 5, 2014, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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