It's Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024.

I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a

Christian worldview.

Just absolutely horrifying news coming from Israel when the Israel Defense Forces found

bodies of six hostages as they were seeking to make progress in one of the tunnels under Gaza.

The IDF reported that it appeared that the six hostages had been executed with gunshot wounds,

something like 36 to 48 hours before the bodies were recovered.

This was devastating news in Israel and quite frankly it has led to a political crisis there.

Massive demonstrations in the streets, thousands turning out for

some of the funerals of these victims. Among the victims, a young man 23 years old

who was both Israeli and American in terms of citizenship.

Hirsch Goldberg, Poland was just 23 years old.

He was known to have been horribly wounded

in the October 7 attack there in Israel.

And in particular, the attack upon a music festival there

with several of the people who were attending the festival killed others taken

as hostages but we really are looking at a very, very severe political crisis there in Israel.

And it's a crisis that's been building for quite a long period of time.

But this also requires us trying to think through these issues in terms of worldview and understanding.

It requires us to telescope back just a bit and understand the kind of challenge that Israel is here facing,

and quite honestly the way so many people in the

mainstream media and the heads of government around the world are fumbling this issue and fumbling

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