King David’s Hostage Negotiations
Posted By: Harlowe, 3/13/2025 11:18:02 PM
At the end of this week, Jews around the world will celebrate the holiday of Purim. The annual commemoration of the divine salvation from extermination has a special resonance this year. Haman, the Purim story’s central villain, the Persian Empire’s grand vizier, descended from the Amalekite peoples, has traditionally served as a stand-in for contemporary villains like Hitler, Stalin...as well as Hamas and other Islamic Jihadists. [Snip] There is much that Israel could have learned and still can learn from King David’s approach to hostage negotiations. The first thing is to eliminate moral doubt about its rightness through faith.
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King David’s Hostage Negotiations
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At the end of this week, Jews around the world will celebrate the holiday of Purim. The annual commemoration of the divine salvation from extermination has a special resonance this year. Haman, the Purim story’s central villain, the Persian Empire’s grand vizier, descended from the Amalekite peoples, has traditionally served as a stand-in for contemporary villains like Hitler, Stalin...as well as Hamas and other Islamic Jihadists. [Snip] There is much that Israel could have learned and still can learn from King David’s approach to hostage negotiations. The first thing is to eliminate moral doubt about its rightness through faith.
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The author points to political pressure from the Biden administration, EU, UN, other global forces and “domestic pressure campaigns insisting that hostage releases take priority over the destruction of Hamas” resulting in what began “as a Davidic war of principle and courage gave way to a Saulite political slog...putting Israel back in the same familiar no-win scenario of fighting Islamic terrorism” that “Hamas and its backers in the Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar and others around the world had been counting on.” The narrative recalls young David’s decisive confrontation with Goliath as coming “in the name of the Lord of hosts. ... That moral certainty is sadly lacking today.”