It's Wednesday, November 8, 2023.

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

Well, the off-year election was yesterday, big decisions in states including

Kentucky and Ohio, Virginia, and Mississippi.

But the most responsible thing to do is to wait until there is

further definition and final computations before doing an analysis of what

voters had to say on Tuesday. So today we're going to turn to some other issues. We will look to the

electoral results tomorrow morning. Right now let's turn to one of the most pressing

issues of course in the entire realm of global affairs and that is the war

going on right now in the Middle East. Let's just remind ourselves of how this

happened. In the days just before the October 7th attack by Hamas upon Israel, a murderous attack that had been plotted for a long time, that included ground forces coming out of tunnels, that included parasales in which you had armed soldiers

coming in to kill Jewish citizens in which you had an attack upon a music

festival indiscriminate killing more than a thousand dead in one of the most targeted

genocidal attacks on the Jewish people

in all of recent history and the biggest since the Holocaust itself.

When you look at this and you understand

you had babies, you had young people,

you had elderly persons who were all massacred.

The response of Israel was a bit slow in coming simply because of the complications of invading Gaza.

But it has now happened, of course, and is now proceeding.

And as we're looking at this, we need to understand a couple of things that have become very much a part of the cultural conversation.

One is a statement, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

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