The worldwide media almost never puts news stories into
sufficient context. The result is a barrage of “urgent” stories that are
superficially covered, only to be replaced by the next news flash. A great
example is the article published by CNN yesterday under the Headline: “As
death toll rises, fighting between Israel and Hamas lights up Gaza skies”
The report outlines many of the events in Gaza over the last couple of
days. Buried toward the end of the article is the following: UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works
Agency) admitted Thursday it found 20
missiles in one of its schools in Gaza and suggested the missiles belonged to
Hamas, which is using U.N. sites "to commit a double war crime by
targeting Israeli civilians while hiding behind Palestinians civilians."
While the UNRWA officials did “strongly condemn” the find,
there is more to this story than a discovery of a few weapons.
The Qassam rockets used by the Palestinians are over seven
feet in length and weigh just under 200 pounds each. There were twenty of these
“hidden” in a school run by the United Nations. Does anyone actually believe
that twenty rockets, each with a warhead containing 22 pounds of explosives,
were secreted into the school and stored without the complicity of those
managing the school? In other words, were not the UNRWA personnel involved?
How does this not become a major story? Imagine a private
school in your town storing this kind of military weaponry to be used to
terrorize, maim and kill innocent civilians. Now imagine that your local
government (Hamas in this case) in complicit cooperation with the United
Nations was behind it.
It is no longer sufficient to casually trust the general
news media’s capability to get the story right.
Pray for truth to prevail and pray for the peace of
Jerusalem.
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