Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Tuesday October 31st

2023. I am John Pudhord's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

eight Greenwald Hyade. Hi John. Washington commentary columnist Matthew Contanetti. Hi Matt.

Hi John. Matt's colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, our media commentary columnist

Christine Rosen. Hi Christine. Hi John. And senior editor Seth Mandel. So I thought we'd do

we take on and I didn't even wait for you to say hi. Poor Seth. You have to let him say hi.

I am so off my game. It's unbelievable. I am so sorry Seth. Hi Seth. Now. Hi John. Okay because

I'm thinking about how we're changing up for him here. Ordinarily we do commentaries podcast

mailbag on Friday. We are getting an enormous amount of mail every day now from people because

everyone is so engaged and upset and worried and trying to come up with theorems and strategies

about how to deal with everything that's coming at us five million miles a minute. So but I thought

that I would read a couple of very thoughtful letters that we've received and get you guys to

respond. Then maybe we can talk through them about what's going on in the daily news and the

stuff that maybe you guys want to hear. So I am going to open up the mailbag here. So I'm going to

start with the letter from my friend Paul who writes me the following. There have been a number

of commentators who have pointed out that Hamas has been explicit in their extermination of

skulls and activities. Whereas the Nazis felt compelled to do theirs under a cover of a more

general war and then to hide the evidence as best they could. Less commented upon is that the

barbarity and sadism of Hamas on October 7th has actually received limited attention outside of

Israel and Jewish circles. The fact of the civilian massacre is widely noted. It's horrific

creativity less so when it has been noted is often with an admiring tone by Hamas sympathizers

and apologists. There are lots of violent movements in the world if they can engage in even more

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