Another Side to the Story

I’m sure we have all witnessed pictures like this one on television or in newspapers illustrating the poverty within the Gaza strip. The pictures are normally accompanied by anti Israeli commentary blaming scenes like this on Israel for it’s continued blockade of Gaza. It is of course heart wrenching to see images of children scrabbling about in a dump to assist in their survival and no right thinking persons takes any pleasure in the suffering of others, however, she should be careful not to swallow everything we’re feed by the media. There is always ‘another side to the story’.

The Blame Game

Is Israel justified in her blockade of the Gaza strip? The international media seems intent on pointing the finger of blame at Israel for the poverty within Gaza but who is really to blame. Surely Israel is well within her rights to block the free movement of goods into an area from where thousands of rockets are fired each year at innocent Israeli citizens! If the citizens of Kent started firing rockets across into Calais do you not think the French government would take some action? The reality is the Palestinians are their own worst enemies.

The blockade may cause poverty but what choice does the nation of Israel have? They must attempt to stop the rockets being smuggled into Gaza. The blockage has actually had some great successes not least the capture, in March of the German registered M/V Victoria bound for Gaza with a variety of munitions which had originated in Iran. As long as the militant Islamists within Gaza continue to desire the destruction of Israel then the blockade that impoverishes their own people will be justified to continue.

Unreported Facts

Since the beginning of the blockage of Gaza the Israeli authorities have sent trucks by the thousands carrying humanitarian aid into the Gaza strip. Goods such as medicine, baby food, building materials and diesel fuel have poured in from Israel on a daily basis but you never hear about this on the mainstream media.

According the International Monetary Fund the economy of Gaza has grown by double-digit proportions in recent years. While the major Western economies stagnate and fear a slide back into recession the economy of Gaza and the West Bank for that matter are literally booming. This economic growth in Gaza manifests itself in new luxury hotels, water parks and shopping malls, below are a few images that show the other side of the story.




Gaza’s New Shopping Mall





The Grand Palace Hotel, Gaza




The Gaza Water Park





I do not begrudge the citizens of Gaza a bit of leisure time and luxury. I just wish there was a bit more honesty on the part of the international media or maybe it’s not a lack of honesty but rather a lack of scrutiny as they swallow the propaganda of Hamas. A good journalist should always look at the other side of the story.

Shame on Them

The onward march or rampant Sodomy reached another milestone in Ireland in recent days with the acknowledgement by a Church or Ireland minister that he has entered into a same-sex civil partnership with his ‘partner’ of two decades.

One would have thought that someone in the hierarchy of the Anglican Church in Ireland would have read scriptures like ‘Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.’ Leviticus 18 v22 or even ‘Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.’ 1st Cor 6 v 9-11

As clear and unambiguous as these scriptures are, no one seems to be saying, ‘hold on a minute, this is wrong! How can a minister of religion be a practicing homosexual?’ It seems that the established church has adopted the perverted thinking of a godless world and treats as normal, something that in God’s eyes is perverse. Shame on them!

To Evangelical Anglicans

I’m sure news like this weekend’s revelations are unwelcome and unpalatable to many Godly Evangelical Christians within the Anglican Communion. My message to you is stark and uncompromising. It’s time to get out. My message to you is the same as the exhortation the Apostle Paul gave to the believers at Corinth ‘Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.’ 2 Corinthians 6 v 14-16

What have you got in common with a practicing homosexual minister? What have you got in common with a Bishop who at worst supports him or at best tolerates him? If a church is tolerating anti Christian practices can it still be considered a Christian Church?

'Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.' Revelation 18 v4