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The Morning Dispatch

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By Charlotte Lawson, Grayson Logue, James P. Sutton, and Cole Murphy

Happy Monday! The final four of 43 monkeys who escaped from a research facility in South Carolina in November have been captured and returned to captivity. We give it a week before they receive their presidential pardons and are back on the street.


  • Israel on Saturday welcomed home four female hostages—Israeli soldiers Liri Albag, Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev, and Naama Levy—from terrorist captivity after 477 days in the Gaza Strip. Their return coincided with Israel’s release of some 200 Palestinian prisoners, more than half of whom had been serving life sentences, into the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and—in the case of serious offenders—the neighboring countries of Qatar and Turkey. On Monday morning, Hamas confirmed that displaced Palestinians had begun to return to northern Gaza as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire and hostage release agreement.

I know I am not the only one to say that it is unconscionable that 4 Israeli hostages equal 200 Palestinian criminals. It has been explained that Israelis have a moral obligation to free hostages any way they can, so this is the result. It has also been explained that these criminals will probably commit more crimes against Jews.   

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