Questioning Media Narratives on Israel

Ever since I was a kid, I was taught to have

this blinding, unwavering

loyalty, fealty to Israel. I was conditioned

to believe that Israel was the promised land, and the

Israelis were God's chosen people, and all the Arabs

surrounding Israel just wanted to annihilate them and wipe them

completely off the map. We were taught that Muhammad was a

false prophet, and those who were worshiping to Allah were

worshiping to the wrong God. And we were taught that we were supposed

to pledge allegiance to the United States, support the

American military and their endeavors all across the

world, but especially in the Middle East, and their support for

Israel. We were supposed to back that no matter what, and

to question anything would be un-American.

But now that I'm older, and we have access to the world at our

fingertips, and I can see with my own two eyes what

is going on,

I've began to question everything.

I've realized that we bought the lie that Western media propagates to us.

We bought the lie that the American church

or the Western church

propagates to us. I don't believe in the duality of the

world.

I don't believe that we are good, that America's good, that Christians

are good,

that Jewish people are good, and that Arabs and

Muslims are bad and evil. We've always been taught that

Arabs, Palestinians, Iraqis, Iranians, they're

jihadists, they're terrorists, they're thugs, they're predators, they're

savages. These are the words that we've always used to describe

human beings. We are taught that Israel has the right to

self-defense, that they are morally superior in this battle.

But I now realize that he who controls the media controls

the

masses, and Israel has the power to not only

control the

narrative, but to control the way that the war is

fought. We are taught that this war started from a Hamas

terrorist attack on October seventh, but in reality, this war

started seventy-five years ago with the start of

the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and the stealing

of their land. One thing I've learned about the