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It's the Brian Larrow Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. Coming up later this hour,

we're going to invite calls from eighth graders in the New York City public school system or

your parents. I realize the eighth graders yourselves are probably in school or at least you should be, eighth graders and their parents and maybe other loved ones on how the high school admission process worked out for you.

I know the admission notices went out yesterday, so a lot of families are buzzing with excitement

or disappointment or some mixture. So we're going to ask where did you get in and what do you think about the process

because we all know it's kind of a Byzantine process to apply for public high school in New York City and not just the

specialized high schools like Stavison and Bronx Science even regular high

schools there's this whole complicated thing.

So we're going to invite your comments on the process

and your stories of where you applied,

where you got in, where your kid applied and got in

coming up later in the hour.

Right now, here's one way to look at the situation in Israel and Gaza right now,

that in addition to the violence itself that Hamas brought on October 7th

they laid a trap for Israel and Israel has fallen for it hook, line, and sinker.

As described in an article on Vox,

the goal is to create a visceral response from Israel

that would be seen as so disproportionate

that the violence Hamas carried out on October 7th would be pushed to the side and

that Israel would be seen as the irrational actor. In that sense the article

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