It's Tuesday, November 14, 2023. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

We're all trying to understand what's going on right now in the war between Israel and Hamas

in the aftermath of the deadly genocidal attack by Hamas back in October the 7th. It has

basically been the most important news story in the world since then and given

some of the other stories, some of the other happenings, that's really saying something.

It continues to dominate the news because right now it is the most important story.

In terms of the weightiness of the Christian worldview, in terms of understanding what's important,

as contrasted sometimes with what's urgent, this story is both urgent and important.

Sometimes the importance of an issue or the way to understand it can be changed by one comment.

I'm thinking particularly of a comment made on Sunday by Jake Sullivan, President Biden's National Security advisor.

When he was asked about the context of the current war undertaken by Israel against Hamas,

Jake Sullivan said, well, you know, we now know what the aims of Hamas were from the beginning

and it was a state of constant war in order to lead to the eventual disappearance of Israel as a state. And in order to back up and give evidence

for what he said that the American government now knows and is informing America's

national policy as well as Israel, he pointed to an article that had appeared

on the front page of the New York Times.

And that article, by the way, appeared last Thursday in the print edition. The article didn't get as much attention

as it deserved at the time because after all there's such a flood of news, even a deep and rapid flood

having to do with the war in Israel and in Gaza, particularly the war between

Israel and Hamas.

And you look at this story, the headline is this, Hamas's goal for October 7, a permanent state of war.

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