It's the Brian Larrao on WNYC.

Good morning everyone.

I want to start today by playing a few clips from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's

Israel-Palestine speech on the Senate floor yesterday that are not the simple sound bite you've probably

been hearing in the newscasts about Benjamin Netanyahu.

And then we'll have a conversation with two guests about how to get to yes on some kind of cease fire.

Israel and Hamas are stuck in those negotiations, as you probably know,

and reports are that scores of civilians or more are still being killed every

day as well as the fact that the Israeli hostages continue to be held.

So there's tremendous urgency from a humanitarian standpoint, but like

with any ceasefire it will take both warring parties to agree. But first to these

speech excerpts from Schumer, we have the luxury of time on this show, unlike

the news programs with a tighter clock, so we'll stretch out just a little bit beyond what

they can do. What you probably have heard that I won't bother

to replay is that Schumer called Prime Minister Netanyahu an obstacle to

peace and a two-state solution, along with Hamas, Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas,

and radical-right Israelis.

He mentioned all four of those.

You've probably heard that Schumer called for new elections in Israel once the war in

Gaza starts to wind down and accused Netanyahu of being too willing to tolerate the

civilian death toll in Gaza and of pushing Israel toward the status of a

pariah state should we use that term pariah. That's the part you probably know and

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