There are many deceptions in the world today, but one of the worst is that the secular media are perpetrating a fraud as regards the Gaza Flotilla issue and the "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza.

Let us, for the moment, leave the raid on the flotilla aside and concentrate on the greater isssue of the crisis in Gaza.

The claim is that people of Gaza are suffering from the blockade by the Israeli government, as executed by the IDF, preventing much needed humanitarian "necessities" from reaching the people in the Gaza Strip. Oh, really?

How about just a wee bit of perspective on this issue:

http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001114.html

As you can see, those poor Gaza citizens are suffering so! Even a cursory read of independent media outside the mainstream reveals that the reports which arrive on your doorstep, the reports you are most likely to see, don't tell the whole truth.

Here's the link to the site's home page: http://www.tomgrossmedia.com

Time was that I could read a newspaper, a magazine or listen to a radio or television report and receive reasonably accurate accounts of what transpired on a given day. I could rely upon the honesty and integrity of the reporter, the network and the editorial staff of the newspapers and magazines.

Today, I cannot trust anyone. If I really want to know the truth, I have to search through an incredible labyrinth of information and places to begin to piece together even an idea of what really is happening in the world, even in my own community!

But this clearly biased and premeditated cover up of the truth about the citizens of the Gaza Strip and their "suffering" is reprehensible. It isn't surprising, given the evidences of the past, that the media are clearly filled with anti-Israel hatred. Even Helen Thomas let slip her contempt for Israel - and was forced to resign her seat in the White House Press Corps.

And your President has just pledge yet another 400 million dollars USD to help the beleaguered Palestinians! This on the heels of some very distrubing statements which could be seen as running in the realm of anti-Israeli sentiments on the part of our President.

We know to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. We know that if we support Israel, Jerusalem, we will find favour with the Lord. And we know if we rise up against Israel, even Jerusalem, that the Lord will remove His favour and protection from us.

It's a simple truth all Christians should know, but which, sadly, are unaware. And so even within Christian circles, support for our brothers and sisters in Israel is weak at best, and nonexistent at worst.

Does Israel get a pass on everything they do? Certainly not. But when they are clearly in the right, as with the flotilla raid - having warned the ships to turn away, to sail to an Israeli port city for inspection, a warning and admonition they chose to ignore, we must stand firm in our support of Israel's right to self defence. And, to further underscore their correct actions, it has come to light that at least one ship had no supplies of any kind, merely passengers. So this clearly indicates the Gaza Flotilla had one primary purpose - Confrontation; to embarrass the Israeli government, to make the IDF out be thugs and criminals. It almost worked, and in some circles it did work. All because the media were complicit in their aid and comfort to criminals.

It's very simple: we would not allow ships of the Soviet Union to deliver nuclear weapons to Cuba in 1962. Israel wants no weapons or materiel that can be used for weapons to make landfall in Gaza, period. Having suffered, and continuing to suffer, terrorist attacks from Hamas and Islamic Jihad based in Gaza, Israel is clearly justified in keeping tight reign on what goes into Gaza.

As evidence of the danger, even Egypt seals the border with Gaza and controls what goes into Gaza, as much as Israel.

Just so you understand the matters involved here, you must seek to know the whole story behind the news that the media filters for you, filters I personally believe perpetrate a fraud and deception the likes of which we would never tolerate if we were given any say in the matter at all.

With the above link, you now have at least one source to vet what the mainstream media are really not telling you. You don't always have to agree, but at least you will have an independent source for information to weigh what may or may not actually be true in Mideast matters.