Amos Hochstein
speaker
360 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 6 May
Amos Hochstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 3 in all, peaking in Mar 2026 with 2.
Appearances
I negotiated the ceasefire with Hezbollah and a number of the AI and tech collaborations with Saudi Arabia and UAE, as well as elsewhere around the world.
So it's really complicated because if you're doing regular negotiations, let's say between, you know, even Israel and Jordan, right?
They can talk to each other.
A lot of these negotiations are between people who will never speak to each other.
And sometimes the parties were mediating, you know, Brett McGurk and I were in charge of negotiating a potential normalization agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
And, but they don't talk to each other.
So it's a lot of message.
We deliver the message back and forth.
But you don't always want to say, I'm just delivering word for word.
I'm not a mailbox.
It's really shaping the conversation of understanding from both sides what are their real red lines and what are not.
The added complexity is when we're a party to it.
And so, for example, if I'm trying to bring a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, well, it's really Hezbollah, which is a terrorist organization supported by Iran.
We don't talk to Hezbollah because they're a terrorist organization.
We don't talk to terrorists.
So I'm talking to people in Lebanon who are delivering the messages to Hezbollah, and then they're delivering it to me, and then I'm delivering it to Israel.
And so it's really the same thing in Iran.
We don't have direct negotiations with the Iranians.
The last time we did that was in the Obama administration.
When Donald Trump got out of the JCPOA, which was the agreement that the United States had on nuclear with Iran, when he tore it up in 2018 or 19,
Showing 21–40 of 360 · page 2 of 18
← Previous
Next →