This is GPS, the global public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you live from New York.

Today on the program, as Israel celebrates 75 years since its founding,

I talk to its longest serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

With the resurgence in Israeli-Palestinian violence,

can Israel continue to make peace with Arab states?

How will it handle an Iran that could reportedly make enough facile material for a nuclear bomb in just two weeks?

And the court crisis?

How to heal the country's divisions?

Israel's greatest existential threat according to its precedent.

Also, Washington has declared that America's COVID national emergency will end in a matter of days.

So what lessons have we learned from a pandemic that took more than a million lives in the United States alone?

I'll talk to Philip Zalako, whose COVID crisis group just released its report.

But first, here's my take.

Visiting India this week, I was struck by how different the mood was there compared to much of the world.

While people in the United States and Europe are worried about inflation and a possible recession,

Indians are excited about the future.

India is now the most populous country on the planet and is projected to be its fastest growing large economy as well, at 5.9% this year.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said recently, India's time has arrived.

My worry is that I've seen this movie before.

I remember going to the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2006 and being bombarded with billboards plastered all over the small Swiss town saying, incredible India proclaiming it to be the world's fastest growing free market democracy.

In fact, those years India was growing even faster than now at more than 9%.

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