{"id":7296,"date":"2023-10-13T23:17:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T06:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2023-10-13T23:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T06:26:30","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/10\/13\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-424","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 424"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a>     On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is vol\u00adume 424, which is sym\u00admet\u00adri\u00adcal and also the sum of 10 con\u00adsec\u00adu\u00adtive primes. 424 = 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47 + 53 + 59 + 61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Today\u2019s roundup was dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to assem\u00adble. First, there are the obvi\u00adous emo\u00adtion\u00adal chal\u00adlenges of read\u00ading too much about the hor\u00adrif\u00adic raid by Hamas. If you are won\u00adder\u00ading whether you should dive deeply into orig\u00adi\u00adnal sources (Insta\u00adgram sto\u00adries from on the field, etc), no you should not. It will harm your soul. Sec\u00adond, there is a whole sea of infor\u00adma\u00adtion and opin\u00adions and I have a very small buck\u00adet. Third, it was a busy week (and today in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar was quite hec\u00adtic for me). All that hav\u00ading been said, if you find oth\u00ader inter\u00adest\u00ading sto\u00adries about the unfold\u00ading sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion in Israel, please send them my way.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\">\n<li>The best\/most inter\u00adest\u00ading sto\u00adries I\u2019ve seen about the Hamas attack on Israel.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/10\/amir-tibon-how-his-family-survived-hamas-massacre\/675596\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018We\u2019re Going to Die Here\u2019<\/a> (Yair Rosen\u00adberg, The Atlantic): \u201cFirst I\u2019m hear\u00ading this gun\u00adfire from the fields. But then I hear it from the road, then I hear it from the neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood, and then I hear it out\u00adside my win\u00addow. I\u2019m in the room with my wife, and I hear the gun\u00adfire direct\u00adly out\u00adside my win\u00addow, as well as shout\u00ading. I under\u00adstand Ara\u00adbic. I under\u00adstood exact\u00adly what was hap\u00adpen\u00ading: that Hamas has infil\u00adtrat\u00aded our kib\u00adbutz, that there are ter\u00adror\u00adists out\u00adside my win\u00addow, and that I\u2019m locked in my house and inside my safe room with two young girls, and I don\u2019t know if any\u00adone is going to come to save us.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is an amaz\u00ading sto\u00adry. 100% worth read\u00ading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.readtangle.com\/israel-attacks-hamas-palestine-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">The attacks on Israel, and the response.<\/a> (Isaac Saul, Tan\u00adgle): \u201cAm I pro-Israel or pro-Pales\u00adtine? I have no idea. I\u2019m pro-not-killing-civil\u00adians. I\u2019m pro-not-trap\u00adping-mil\u00adlions-of-peo\u00adple-in-open-air-pris\u00adons. I\u2019m pro-not-shoot\u00ading-grand\u00admas-in-the-back-of-the-head. I\u2019m pro-not-flat\u00adten\u00ading-apart\u00adment-com\u00adplex\u00ades. I\u2019m pro-not-rap\u00ading-women-and-tak\u00ading-hostages. I\u2019m pro-not-unjust\u00adly-impris\u00adon\u00ading-peo\u00adple-with\u00adout-due-process. I\u2019m pro-free\u00addom and pro-peace and pro- all the things we nev\u00ader see in this con\u00adflict any\u00admore. What\u00adev\u00ader this is, I want none of it.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is a well-done roundup fea\u00adtur\u00ading diverse view\u00adpoints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/darkness-visible-46e?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Dark\u00adness Vis\u00adi\u00adble<\/a> (Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThe more I\u2019ve thought and read about Israel, the more it seems that its found\u00ading was both a moral neces\u00adsi\u00adty and a prac\u00adti\u00adcal insan\u00adi\u00adty. The moral neces\u00adsi\u00adty is proven by last week\u00adend. If Jews can be sub\u00adject to a medieval pogrom in their own coun\u00adtry in 2023, what hope could they ever have with\u00adout a coun\u00adtry at all? The prac\u00adti\u00adcal insan\u00adi\u00adty lies in the sim\u00adple fact that the state of Israel was cre\u00adat\u00aded on land laden with deep reli\u00adgious sym\u00adbol\u00adism, where much of the exist\u00ading pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion did not give con\u00adsent, and despite the ear\u00adly promise, no coun\u00adtry for the Pales\u00adtini\u00adans was ever con\u00adstruct\u00aded along\u00adside it.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A more com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsive essay than many I\u2019ve read so far.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/12\/opinion\/israel-hamas-isis-gaza.html?unlocked_article_code=HeypBfXJcBhZ7TtS0t9GkVqhQhs8BoN0d2UNekTTWihzocCOzdnt6pfKIrZuFtXKMrms4cgbNs5LJJzWkJnhcCRZXzj7tzoDLntOvgbpjweIYFMZNBY1ud9-0Sj2B_PR4zVPplucM_SyIHXKwkBloZR2OHONrzbIhewhPPpLZtJ2lfyUiAez3GXvDDiKwj9A28EEZFNchHzuTeaLQol_AhNHeTPIa06L2yKdd_5ss0FfjspUuFoE1IIPfO3sIEFXOFC5_I4cKyLaaUAxslLfhTSNAjE8QU0xpWHor-qEhgoUEMhYKPhgeyW4mWIdbLYtJHmVR7p9HDz5hPhN1NtZEQ&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\">What It Would Mean to Treat Hamas Like ISIS<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201c\u2026Israel\u2019s goal is not to pun\u00adish Hamas but to defeat it \u2014 to remove it from pow\u00ader in Gaza the way the Iraqi mil\u00adi\u00adtary, the Unit\u00aded States and their allies removed ISIS from Mosul, Fal\u00adlu\u00adja, Rama\u00addi and every oth\u00ader city ISIS con\u00adtrolled in Iraq. That can\u2019t be accom\u00adplished by air pow\u00ader alone. If remov\u00ading Hamas from pow\u00ader is the goal, then that almost cer\u00adtain\u00adly means sol\u00addiers and tanks fight\u00ading in Gazan cities, block by block, house to house in an area of rough\u00adly two mil\u00adlion peo\u00adple. The pur\u00adpose of this newslet\u00adter is to give you a primer on both the mil\u00adi\u00adtary dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty of the task and the human\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan con\u00adstraints on it, along with the lim\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtions that are unique to Israel.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unlocked \u2014 a thor\u00adough arti\u00adcle from an author with high\u00adly rel\u00ade\u00advant exper\u00adtise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinian-war-hamas-attack-border-wall-aa0b0f5f3613b6c6882cf37168e8e8ed\" target=\"_blank\">Hamas prac\u00adticed in plain sight, post\u00ading video of mock attack weeks before bor\u00adder breach<\/a> (Michael Beiseck\u00ader &amp;&nbsp; Sarah El Deeb, Asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded Press): \u201cA slick\u00adly pro\u00adduced two-minute pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda video post\u00aded to social media by Hamas on Sept. 12 shows fight\u00aders using explo\u00adsives to blast through a repli\u00adca of the bor\u00adder gate, sweep in on pick\u00adup trucks and then move build\u00ading by build\u00ading through a full-scale recon\u00adstruc\u00adtion of an Israeli town, fir\u00ading auto\u00admat\u00adic weapons at human-sil\u00adhou\u00adet\u00adted paper tar\u00adgets. The Islam\u00adic mil\u00adi\u00adtant group\u2019s live-fire exer\u00adcise dubbed oper\u00ada\u00adtion \u2018Strong Pil\u00adlar\u2019 also had mil\u00adi\u00adtants in body armor and com\u00adbat fatigues car\u00adry\u00ading out oper\u00ada\u00adtions that includ\u00aded the destruc\u00adtion of mock-ups of the wall\u2019s con\u00adcrete tow\u00aders and a com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtions anten\u00adna, just as they would do for real in the dead\u00adly attack last Sat\u00adur\u00adday.\u201d <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/12\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-egypt-israel-strikes.html\" target=\"_blank\">As Deaths Soar in Gaza From Israeli Strikes, Egypt Offers Aid, but No Exit<\/a> (Declan Walsh, New York Times): \u201cEgypt has long insist\u00aded that Israel must solve the Pales\u00adtin\u00adian issue with\u00adin its bor\u00adders, to keep alive aspi\u00adra\u00adtions for a future Pales\u00adtin\u00adian state. Allow\u00ading large num\u00adbers of Gazans to cross over, even as refugees, would \u2018revive the idea that Sinai is the alter\u00adna\u00adtive coun\u00adtry for the Pales\u00adtini\u00adans,\u2019 said Mustapha Kamel al-Sayyid, a polit\u00adi\u00adcal sci\u00aden\u00adtist at Cairo Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty. A relat\u00aded sce\u00adnario that wor\u00adries Egypt is that it could end up as the de fac\u00adto admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtor of Gaza.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Egypt, of course, is the only nation besides Israel that shares a bor\u00adder with the Gaza Strip. It is often over\u00adlooked by Amer\u00adi\u00adcans because we don\u2019t know our geog\u00adra\u00adphy very well, but Egypt is equal\u00adly involved in pre\u00advent\u00ading the migra\u00adtion of the Pales\u00adtini\u00adans in Gaza.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/10\/10\/how-hamas-entered-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Hamas breached Israel\u2019s \u2018Iron Wall\u2019<\/a> (Samuel Grana\u00addos, Ruby Mellen, Lau\u00adren Tier\u00adney, Artur Galocha, Cate Brown and Aaron Steck\u00adel\u00adberg, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cThe fence was breached at 29 points, accord\u00ading to the Israel Defense Forces. Though there wereIs\u00adraeli guard tow\u00aders posi\u00adtioned every 500 feet along the perime\u00adter of the wall at some points, the fight\u00aders appeared to encounter lit\u00adtle resis\u00adtance. The bor\u00adder was min\u00adi\u00admal\u00adly staffed, it soon became apparent,with much of Israel\u2019s mil\u00adi\u00adtary divert\u00aded to focus on unrest in the West Bank.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Detailed and quite inter\u00adest\u00ading. Also not very long to read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/10\/hamas-pop-intersectionality-leftism-israel\/675625\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Pro\u00adgres\u00adsives Who Flunked the Hamas Test<\/a> (Helen Lewis, The Atlantic): \u201cIn the fevered world of social media, pro\u00adgres\u00adsive activists have often sought to dis\u00adcred\u00adit hate\u00adful state\u00adments and unjust poli\u00adcies by describ\u00ading them as \u2018vio\u00adlence,\u2019 even \u2018geno\u00adcide.\u2019 This ten\u00adden\u00adcy seems grotesque if the same activists are not pre\u00adpared to crit\u00adi\u00adcize Hamas, a group whose found\u00ading char\u00adter is explic\u00adit\u00adly geno\u00adci\u00addal\u2026 Fit\u00adting Israel into the inter\u00adsec\u00adtion\u00adal frame\u00adwork has always been dif\u00adfi\u00adcult, because its Jew\u00adish cit\u00adi\u00adzens are both his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly oppressed\u2014the sur\u00advivors of an attempt to wipe them out entire\u00adly\u2014<em>and<\/em> cur\u00adrent\u00adly in a dom\u00adi\u00adnant posi\u00adtion over the Pales\u00adtini\u00adans, as demon\u00adstrat\u00aded by the Netanyahu government\u2019s deci\u00adsion to restrict pow\u00ader and water sup\u00adplies to Gaza. The sim\u00adplis\u00adtic log\u00adic of pop inter\u00adsec\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty can\u00adnot rec\u00adon\u00adcile this, and the sub\u00adject caused schisms with\u00adin the left long before Saturday\u2019s attacks.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This one is espe\u00adcial\u00adly worth read\u00ading for uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty stu\u00addents. It high\u00adlights weak\u00adness\u00ades in a per\u00adspec\u00adtive you are often taught from.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/a-wounded-weakened-israel-is-a-fiercer-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">A wound\u00aded, weak\u00adened Israel is a fiercer one<\/a> (Haviv Ret\u00adtig Gur, The Times of Israel): \u201cHamas seemed to do every\u00adthing pos\u00adsi\u00adble to shift Israeli psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy from a com\u00adfort\u00adable faith in their own strength to a sense of dire vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty. And it will soon learn the scale of that mis\u00adcal\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adtion. A strong Israel may tol\u00ader\u00adate a bel\u00adliger\u00adent Hamas on its bor\u00adder; a weak\u00ader one can\u00adnot. A safe Israel can spend much time and resources wor\u00adry\u00ading about the human\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan fall\u00adout from a Gaza ground war; a more vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble Israel can\u00adnot. A wound\u00aded, weak\u00adened Israel is a fiercer Israel. Hamas was once a tol\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble threat. It just made itself an intol\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble one, all while con\u00advinc\u00ading Israelis they are too vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble and weak to respond with the old restraint.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some theological\/Christian per\u00adspec\u00adtives:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/providencemag.com\/2023\/10\/the-way-out-is-through-peace-must-start-with-the-end-of-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Way Out is Through: Peace Must Start with the End of Hamas<\/a> (Marc LiVec\u00adche, Prov\u00adi\u00addence): \u201cIsrael must do every\u00adthing pos\u00adsi\u00adble to min\u00adi\u00admize the toil on the inno\u00adcent, and to mul\u00adti\u00adply hell on the mon\u00adsters.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is a research fel\u00adlow at the Naval War Col\u00adlege and is writ\u00ading about just war the\u00ado\u00adry as it applies to the con\u00adflict between Israel and Hamas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2023\/october\/israel-hamas-gaza-war-palestinian-evangelical-messianic-jew.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amid Israel-Hamas War, Local Chris\u00adtians Seek Right\u00adeous Anger and Gospel Hope<\/a> (Jayson Casper, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cNoth\u00ading about this sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion is right or good,\u201d said Lisa Loden, a Mes\u00adsian\u00adic Jew\u00adish mem\u00adber of the Beth\u00adle\u00adhem Insti\u00adtute of Peace and Jus\u00adtice. \u201cBut there is a strong desire to see the Lord use these events to draw peo\u00adple to him\u00adself.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/israel-hamas-moral-clarity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Israel\u2019s 9\/11: The Need for Moral Clar\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Bernard N. Howard and Ivan Mesa, The Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cMoral clar\u00adi\u00adty also allows for suit\u00adably one-sided prayer. It\u2019s right to pray for the swift defeat of Hamas. The mur\u00adder\u00adous oper\u00ada\u00adtions room of Hamas will nev\u00ader pro\u00advide good lead\u00ader\u00adship for the Pales\u00adtini\u00adans liv\u00ading in Gaza. We should by all means pray for both-sided things too: the sal\u00adva\u00adtion of peo\u00adple on both sides; the pro\u00adtec\u00adtion, heal\u00ading, and com\u00adfort of peo\u00adple on both sides; and the growth of the church that lives inside the bor\u00adders of both nations. Even as we pray for these both-sided things, let us bold\u00adly call on our God to thwart, frus\u00adtrate, and defeat the one side that is hell-bent on ter\u00adror\u00adism.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2023\/october-web-only\/israel-hamas-middle-east-war-christians.html?share=3uB5sFv0SIn3G4AFumsabiemet6YWskR\" target=\"_blank\">Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Chris\u00adtians Should Stand with Israel under Attack<\/a> (Rus\u00adsell Moore, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cSome\u00adtimes, espe\u00adcial\u00adly in the ear\u00adly moments of any war, we may be uncer\u00adtain about who is right and who is wrong. There is no such moral con\u00adfu\u00adsion here. Hamas\u2014and its state sponsors\u2014attacked inno\u00adcent peo\u00adple, as they have done repeat\u00aded\u00adly in the past, this time employ\u00ading a force and bru\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty pre\u00advi\u00adous\u00adly unseen.\u2026 As Chris\u00adtians, we should pay spe\u00adcial atten\u00adtion to vio\u00adlence direct\u00aded toward Israel\u2014just as we would pay spe\u00adcial atten\u00adtion to a vio\u00adlent attack on a mem\u00adber of our extend\u00aded fam\u00adi\u00adly. After all, we are graft\u00aded on to the promise made to Abra\u00adham (Rom. 11:17). Our Lord Jesus was and is a Jew\u00adish man from Galilee.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some Stan\u00adford-con\u00adnect\u00aded arti\u00adcles:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.persuasion.community\/p\/this-was-never-supposed-to-happen?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">This Was Nev\u00ader Sup\u00adposed to Hap\u00adpen<\/a> (Amichai Magen, Per\u00adsua\u00adsion): \u201cAna\u00adlysts keen to con\u00advey the mag\u00adni\u00adtude of Octo\u00adber 7th to Amer\u00adi\u00adcan audi\u00adences have already tagged it Israel\u2019s Pearl Har\u00adbor or 9\/11. Nei\u00adther label ade\u00adquate\u00adly cap\u00adtures the day\u2019s true sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcance. A more accu\u00adrate name might be some\u00adthing like \u2018Israel\u2019s civic Yom Kip\u00adpur.\u2019 Why? Because the very exis\u00adtence of the State of Israel was sup\u00adposed to guar\u00adan\u00adtee that a day like this would nev\u00ader hap\u00adpen. In the Yom Kip\u00adpur War of Octo\u00adber 1973\u2014when Egypt and Syr\u00adia launched a sur\u00adprise assault\u2014Israel lost some 2,700 sol\u00addiers, but it man\u00adaged to effec\u00adtive\u00adly pro\u00adtect its civil\u00adian pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion. No Israeli towns or vil\u00adlages were ever breached. The social con\u00adtract was hon\u00adored, albeit at a ter\u00adri\u00adble price. On Octo\u00adber 7, 2023, it was pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly civil\u00adians who were killed, maimed, and kid\u00adnapped. This was the day when the IDF wasn\u2019t there to defend the peo\u00adple it was cre\u00adat\u00aded to pro\u00adtect.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author, him\u00adself Israeli, is a Vis\u00adit\u00ading Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor and Fel\u00adlow in Israel Stud\u00adies at the Free\u00adman-Spogli Insti\u00adtute for Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Stud\u00adies at Stan\u00adford Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stanforddaily.com\/2023\/10\/13\/from-the-community-the-impact-of-hamas-devastating-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\">The impact of Hamas\u2019 dev\u00adas\u00adtat\u00ading attack<\/a> (Matthew Wigler, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201cLike most Jews, I seek the peace and secu\u00adri\u00adty of Israel as a Jew\u00adish state in the indige\u00adnous home\u00adland of the Jew\u00adish peo\u00adple, a safe haven after mil\u00adlen\u00adnia of per\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adtion where Jews can final\u00adly claim con\u00adtrol over their own des\u00adtiny. Like\u00adwise, like most Jews, I also dream of a future of dig\u00adni\u00adty and free\u00addom for the Pales\u00adtin\u00adian peo\u00adple, who, by the very same prin\u00adci\u00adples of self-deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion, deserve a state of their own in a land that they too have called home for many cen\u00adturies. How\u00adev\u00ader, Hamas\u2019 ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy of hate and meth\u00adods of ter\u00adror\u00adism are con\u00adtrary to that vision.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oth\u00ader inter\u00adest\u00ading stuff not relat\u00aded to the war:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/gen-z-primed-spiritual-renewal\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Rea\u00adsons Gen Z Is Primed for Spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal Renew\u00adal<\/a> (Kyle Richter &amp; Patrick Miller, The Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cOur last meet\u00ading of the year was big\u00adger than the first. We start\u00aded with 300 stu\u00addents and end\u00aded with 400. <em>That nev\u00ader hap\u00adpens.<\/em> Then in the fall of this year, it hap\u00adpened again: 500 stu\u00addents attend\u00aded our first meet\u00ading; 600 showed up the next week. <em>This doesn\u2019t hap\u00adpen.<\/em>But it did. And it\u2019s not unique to us. As we talk to cam\u00adpus min\u00adis\u00adters and pas\u00adtors from San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco to Jack\u00adsonville, Billings to Atlanta, DC to Dal\u00adlas, we know we aren\u2019t alone. Some will urge cau\u00adtion before draw\u00ading con\u00adclu\u00adsions. Isn\u2019t this the era of dechurch\u00ading, decon\u00adstruc\u00adtion, and ris\u00ading \u201cnones\u201d? But data lags behind real\u00adi\u00adty and we don\u2019t want the church to miss what may be hap\u00adpen\u00ading.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/laneless.substack.com\/p\/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics\" target=\"_blank\">The Copen\u00adhagen Inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion of Ethics<\/a> (Jai, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cThe Copen\u00adhagen Inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion of Ethics says that when you observe or inter\u00adact with a prob\u00adlem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing <em>more<\/em>. Even if you don\u2019t make the prob\u00adlem worse, even if you make it slight\u00adly bet\u00adter, the eth\u00adi\u00adcal bur\u00adden of the prob\u00adlem falls on you as soon as you observe it. In par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, if you inter\u00adact with a prob\u00adlem and ben\u00ade\u00adfit from it, you are a com\u00adplete mon\u00adster. I don\u2019t sub\u00adscribe to this school of thought, but it seems pret\u00adty pop\u00adu\u00adlar.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A few years old, but real\u00adly good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-03177-1\" target=\"_blank\">Repro\u00adducibil\u00adi\u00adty tri\u00adal: 246 biol\u00ado\u00adgists get dif\u00adfer\u00adent results from same data sets<\/a> (Anil Oza, Nature): \u201cIn a mas\u00adsive exer\u00adcise to exam\u00adine repro\u00adducibil\u00adi\u00adty, more than 200 biol\u00ado\u00adgists analysed the same sets of eco\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal data \u2014 and got wide\u00adly diver\u00adgent results. The first sweep\u00ading study<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www-nature-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org\/articles\/d41586-023-03177-1#ref-CR1\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> of its kind in ecol\u00ado\u00adgy demon\u00adstrates how much results in the field can vary, not because of dif\u00adfer\u00adences in the envi\u00adron\u00adment, but because of sci\u00aden\u00adtists\u2019 ana\u00adlyt\u00adi\u00adcal choic\u00ades.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/341051\/authorities-seize-womans-giraffe-poop-at-minnesota-airport.html\" target=\"_blank\">Author\u00adi\u00adties Seize Wom\u00adan\u2019s Giraffe Poop at Min\u00adneso\u00adta Air\u00adport<\/a> (Evann Gastal\u00addo, News\u00ader): \u201cthe woman told agri\u00adcul\u00adture spe\u00adcial\u00adists from cus\u00adtoms that she had the giraffe drop\u00adpings, explain\u00ading that she\u2019d made jew\u00adel\u00adry from moose feces before and planned to do the same with the giraffe excre\u00adment\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A minute of math jokes with a theological(ish) twist at the end: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CxVsyZyxj-W\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CxVsyZyxj\u2011W\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A minute on why you have to keep repeat\u00ading \u201cI love you\u201d <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/WkGIiRe\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/WkGIiRe<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2839\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lan\u00adguage Acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a0Pw_TxBe7w\" target=\"_blank\">Actor Not Sure if He\u2019s Sup\u00adposed to Sup\u00adport Israel or Pales\u00adtine<\/a> (Ryan Long, YouTube): three min\u00adutes of clever (and one point mild\u00adly vul\u00adgar) cul\u00adtur\u00adal com\u00admen\u00adtary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.\n\nAlso, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>. 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