Kiwis for Balanced Reporting on the Middle East
March 30, 2009
Why we continue the battle for truth and balance
The membership of KBRM is broad and includes people from diverse ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds who are united in their belief that Israel deserves to have the truth told about it. Here is a comment from a Christian member as to why she continues this battle against what sometimes seem to be overwhelming odds.
The reason I don't give up is my deeply-held concern that the world is sleepwalking (rather than goose stepping) towards another holocaust and I cannot look the other way and say nothing when innocent Jewish men, women and children are being put at grave risk by the anti-Semitic propaganda that is found in the international media. The Nazi death-camps did not suddenly appear out of the blue — they were the culmination of countless small bad choices, false ideas, and hateful lies with which the German public were carefully groomed for years in advance to allow such diabolical institutions to exist in their name. In my opinion, the relentless media and UN bias against Israel are not accidental. I sometimes feel like I am watching a rerun of Germany in its early days under Nazi rule — lots of subtle, seemingly unrelated anti-Jewish messages, that collectively amount to devastatingly effective anti-Semitic propaganda. I have no idea why someone thinks the whole world has to be turned against the Israeli state, but that seems to be what is being attempted.
I do not write to belittle the suffering of Arab men, women and children who are used as pawns in an ideological struggle for land and power. I do not write to defend the political entity that is the state of Israel — I write letters in an attempt to counter the lies that threaten the safety of Jewish men, women and children, whether in Israel or elsewhere. I believe that ultimately human history is in God's hands, but one day I must give an account of my actions before Him. If I ignore what is happening and say nothing, and if the worst comes to the worst and the world witnesses a second holocaust, how will I live with myself, how will I face my children, how will I answer before God, if I know I didn't even lift a pen in the defence of the Jewish people? That is why I write. It's not much, but it's the least I can do.
by Kirsty Walker