It's Monday, November 27, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

There have been major developments in the war between Israel and Hamas.

After the deadly Hamas attack of October the 7th, a new milestone has been reached. We've had three successive days of

human exchanges between Israel and Hamas. Morally speaking, it's not an even

exchange. Because Israel is releasing prisoners back to Gaza

and thus back to Hamas territory and Hamas control,

whereas Hamas is releasing hostages, Israelis and other internationals that were taken in that

horrifying genocidal October the seventh attack by Hamas upon Israel. This is a

complicated situation for one thing the math is lopsided.

Israel has been releasing about three captives for every one hostage returned

by Hamas. Now, why would Israel do that? It's because Israel has demonstrated

over a number of years an absolute determination to pay even very lopsided

payments in terms of exchanges prisoner for prisoner or in this case

prisoner for hostages that's not an even moral exchange and the lopsidedness of the

math is eclipsed by the lopsidedness of the math is eclipsed by the lopsidedness of the morality.

Hamas is a murderous terrorist organization that has undertaken a genocidal attack upon Israel

and then took a large number of hostages.

Now quite frankly at this point Israel is not even sure which of the hostages are alive

and which of the hostages are held by whom.

Because even though Hamas has control over much of Gaza,

the reality is that there are rival Islamic militant groups as well

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