A brutal terrorist attack rocked Israel last Saturday.

As emotions are high and propaganda flood social media, this episode is broken into three parts.

One, establish the facts of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel.

Two, provide a brief history of the Palestine-Israel conflict, starting with British colonialism.

Three, cover the reactions of American leaders, some of which have clearly not learned from

the Iraq War.

And as usual, we provide some tips for navigating a stressful time as a Catholic and encourage

you to pray for peace.

All this and more on this edition of The Loopcast.

God bless everyone and welcome back to the Loopcast. Today it is me, Erica, and Josh.

We all experienced the events over the weekend just as you did.

They were shocking and saddening, as I imagine most of the world feels right now.

So we're going to spend this episode really breaking down three different threads on what happened over the weekend.

Fortunately, we're kind of at a point in time where it's not as fresh and a lot of the facts

are known and we can really try to just lay down the facts of exactly what happened on

Saturday, understand a little bit of the historical context of the dispute between

Palestinians and the Israelis.

And then also what I don't think is being said elsewhere, we want to add some real Catholic context to ways to live in a time that

feel very tense and feel very stressful, hopefully some good reminders to bring us up at the end.

So it's not going to be all sad. But we really do want to do our best

journalistic integrity of just laying down exactly what happens, try to take a lot of the emotion

out of it. And we have the perfect person for it, if you've ever listened to this. Erica, of course,

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