The Welcome to episode 46 of the Charles C. W. Cook podcast.

I usually start these shows with a bit of levity,

but you know I sat down today at my microphone and I just thought it didn't feel right.

My topic today is the atrocity that was committed in Israel on October 7th.

And I think given the enormity of that subject,

we should just get right into it, so here goes.

My guess this week is Dan Cinore, a former foreign policy advisor to the Bush administration and Mitt Romney, and the author of

The Genius of Israel, a new book that will be released next month.

I invited Dan on to this episode to talk me through what happened on October 7th, why it happened,

what the reaction was and has been to it happening and what's going to happen next

Now through a technical glitch that was entirely my fault I don't have the part

or I welcome down to the podcast or the bit where I thank him.

So without sound effects or fanfare or introduction or outro,

I'll just play our conversation in its entirety.

Well, I wish I had had you on in better circumstances,

but unfortunately, these are terrible circumstances.

It's now been three weeks since the heinous attack in Israel. and I have found analyzing it very easy in one regard and very difficult

in another. The regard in which it has been easy is determining how to react morally.

We've seen an enormous amount of evil and stupidity in response to this atrocity and I've thought it was pretty easy

to determine which side is in the right but in terms of analyzing the situation in Israel

what happens next why there is this animosity and so on and so forth.

I don't know an enormous amount.

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