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Fareed Zakaria GPS

Israel’s Plan to Take Over Gaza City

Fareed Zakaria GPS

CNN

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4.32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show, Fareed is joined by New York Times columnist Bret Stephens and Tarek Masoud of Harvard’s Kennedy School in a conversation about Israel’s recently announced plans to take over Gaza City. Then, Indian journalist Barkha Dutt talks to Fareed about Trump’s threat to impost 50% tariffs on India and the ramifications for the US-India relationship.  Finally, Fareed sits down with author and veteran war correspondent Scott Anderson to discuss the long-lasting impacts of the Iranian revolution—and how it reshaped the Middle East. GUESTS: Bret Stephens; Tarek Masoud; Barkha Dutt (@BDUTT); Scott Anderson 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 Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.

0:12.0

Today on the program, as many governments around the world clamor

0:15.0

for an end to Israel's war in Gaza,

0:18.0

Benjamin Netanyahu's government opts to expand the fight instead.

0:22.6

I'll talk with Brett Stevens of the New York Times and Harvard University's Tarak Massoud

0:27.6

about what this will mean for the people of Gaza, the surviving hostages, and Israel's future.

0:34.6

Also, Trump's tariffs on India may fly as high as 50% by the end of the month. That is the

0:41.0

president's highest level of levies across the globe. Whatever happened to the strategic alliance

0:47.5

between Washington and Delhi. And America's problems with Iran can be traced back to the Iranian revolution.

0:56.0

Did Washington make mistakes then that still shape that relationship today?

1:02.0

But first, here's my take.

1:06.0

As a horrified world watches the upending of an economic order that has brought its stability and prosperity for decades,

1:13.6

the question I hear in country after country is the same.

1:17.6

Why is the United States the country that has prospered so mightily under the system tearing it down?

1:25.6

When I explained that many Americans, including the President,

1:29.3

believe that America has been the victim of this free trade system,

1:33.3

the response is bewilderment.

1:36.3

How can you not see what is blindingly obvious?

1:39.3

One senior foreign official said to me, that you are the big winner.

1:44.5

Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have shaped this narrative with great success.

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