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Questioning Media Narratives on Israel
Desde criança, fui ensinado a ter
essa cega e inabalável
lealdade e fidelidade a Israel. Fui condicionado
a acreditar que Israel era a terra prometida, e os
israelenses eram o povo escolhido de Deus, e todos os árabes
ao redor de Israel só queriam aniquilá-los e varrê-los
completamente do mapa. Fomos ensinados que Maomé era um
falso profeta, e aqueles que adoravam a Alá estavam
adorando ao Deus errado. E nos ensinaram que deveríamos
jurar lealdade aos Estados Unidos, apoiar as
forças armadas americanas e seus esforços por todo o
mundo, mas sobretudo no Oriente Médio, e seu apoio a
Israel. Devíamos apoiar isso não importasse o que acontecesse, e
questionar qualquer coisa seria antiamericano.
Mas agora que estou mais velho e temos o mundo ao alcance dos
nossos dedos, e posso ver com meus próprios olhos o que
está acontecendo,
comecei a questionar tudo.
Percebi que acreditamos na mentira que a mídia ocidental nos propaga.
Acreditamos na mentira que a igreja americana
ou a igreja ocidental
nos propaga. Não acredito na dualidade do
mundo.
Não acredito que sejamos bons, que a América seja boa, que os cristãos
sejam bons,
que os judeus sejam bons e que os árabes e
muçulmanos sejam maus e perversos. Sempre nos ensinaram que
árabes, palestinos, iraquianos, iranianos, são
jihadistas, são terroristas, são bandidos, são predadores, são
selvagens. Essas são as palavras que sempre usamos para descrever
seres humanos. Somos ensinados que Israel tem o direito de
autodefesa, que eles são moralmente superiores nesta batalha.
Mas agora percebo que quem controla a mídia controla
as
massas, e Israel tem o poder não apenas de
controlar a
narrativa, mas de controlar a forma como a guerra é
travada. Fomos ensinados que esta guerra começou com um ataque
terrorista do Hamas em sete de outubro, mas, na realidade, esta guerra
começou há 75 anos com o início
da limpeza étnica do povo palestino e o roubo
de suas terras. Uma coisa que aprendi sobre o
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Original transcript (English)
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
