A new proposal for peace from a former Israeli PM and former Palestinian foreign minister

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Today on the show, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Nasser al-Kidwa tell Fareed about their new peace proposal for the Middle East. They discuss the plan, and the need for new leadership on both sides of the conflict. Next, CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash joins the show to discuss her new book, “America’s Deadliest Election” and what a particularly violent period in US history can tell us about the risks American democracy faces today. Finally, Yuval Noah Harari speaks with Fareed about his new book “Nexus,” and the need for regulating the AI revolution. GUESTS: Ehud Olmert, Nasser al-Kidwa, Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN), Yuval Noah Harari (@harari_yuval) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the Global Public Square.
0:05.0	Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:08.0	I'm Fareed Zakaria coming to you from New York.
0:11.0	Today on the program, as the death toll in Gaza tops 40,000, Israel
0:19.0	continues to reel from the murders of six hostages and and both sides grow ever more weary of war.
0:25.8	A peace plan has just been put out by a former Prime Minister of Israel and a
0:31.4	former Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority.
0:35.6	Could it work?
0:37.5	Will those with the power to agree to a ceasefire even entertain it?
0:42.2	I'll talk to the men behind the proposal, Ehudo Merritt and Nasser Al-Qidwa.
0:47.0	Plus Danabash on the most violent election in American history and you've all know a
0:54.8	Harare on the danger AI poses to democracy. But first here's my take. The great German statesman, Otto Wann Bismarck, is reputed to have once said that
1:08.0	God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.
1:14.7	He might never have actually said that, but it captures the sense that many around the world
1:18.5	have at America's continuing ability to surprise on the upside in the words of a businessman friend of mine.
1:27.1	But it remains unclear as to whether the incumbent party, the Democrats, will be able to benefit
1:32.3	from this good fortune.
1:34.7	The latest evidence for its special providence is that the United States appears to be doing
1:39.3	the near impossible.
1:41.3	Getting inflation down far and fast without triggering a deep recession.
1:47.0	The former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder points out that using strict definitions, the United States has been able to achieve such
1:56.0	a soft landing only once before in the past 60 years.
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