Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three martini's coming up.

So glad to have you for the Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch.

Grab a stool, a lot to get to again today.

As you know, Jim Garrity is away here in his place,

National Review, senior editor and writer. Charlie Cook also hosted the Charles C.W. Cook podcast.

Charlie, good to have you with us again. Yeah, thanks for having me.

Well, one of the things that got a lot of attention yesterday was this column by Nicholas

Christoph over at the New York Times. And Nick Christoph

is no stranger to controversy and having to correct the record in response to sensational

claims that he didn't vet very well. But hey, why get in the way of a good story just because

it doesn't happen to be true? And that seems to be the case again. This time, accusing

Israeli military, Israeli personnel of essentially raping Palestinian prisoners

and even saying that they train dogs to do it.

Somehow they trained dogs to do it.

The Daily Mail, meanwhile, has reporting on what actually happened on 10-7.

Let's just say it's extraordinarily graphic about

the sexual assaults that happened even after victims were dead. They were desecrating bodies

in every possible way. You can read the story in the Daily Mail. I don't want to ruin everyone's

appetite here, but Charlie, it's basically

confirmation of what we already knew happened on 10-7 in that regard, just maybe not at that

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