Good day and welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Monday, February the 24th, 2025.

I'm Chris Elkins' narrator. Today's daily article is written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

On October 7th, 2023, Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel, murdering close to 1,200 people, and dragging 251 hostages back to Gaza.

On Saturday, they released six more hostages, the last to be freed under the first phase of their fragile ceasefire with Israel.

62 hostages taken on October the 7th remain in Gaza, including many whom Israel has concluded

are now dead. Of all the horrific stories to come from this unspeakable atrocity, the Bibus boys

are the most heart-shattering.

Kaffir Bebus was 10 months old and his brother Ariel was four when they were kidnapped

along with their parents on October the 7th.

Their tiny bodies were returned in black boxes last Thursday.

Watching the video brought tears of grief, anger, and outrage to my

eyes and heart. The terrorists had claimed that the boys and their mother were killed in Gaza by

Israeli bombing. However, after examining the remains, Israel said forensic findings showed that they

had been killed with bare hands just weeks after

their kidnappings.

An IDF spokesman stated, quote, contrary to Hamas's lies, Ariel and Kaffir were not killed

in an airstrike.

Ariel and Kaffir Bivas were murdered in cold blood by terrorists.

He added that they have shared these findings,

intelligence, and forensics with our partners around the world so they can verify it,

end quote. I'm not writing this daily article in the belief that you want to start your

week with this horrific story. I'm sure the opposite is true, in fact. Accordingly, I intended to make today's article a website commentary or wait until later in the week to write it. Then I read a Wall Street journal column by French intellectual Bernard Henri Levy that pierced my soul and compelled today's response titled titled, Ponder how the Bebus boys died,

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