Thomas Friedman on Iran, Israel and Preventing a ‘Forever War’

Matter of Opinion

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Society & Culture, Ross Douthat, News, New York Times, Journalism

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Will Israel and Iran’s unprecedented attacks escalate into a wider mideast conflict? A “forever war”? This week, columnist Tom Friedman joins the hosts to unpack the latest developments, what it means for Gaza, and the implications for the region writ large.

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0:00.0	Hey, colleagues, friends, sir.
0:04.0	Tom.
0:05.0	Doctor.
0:06.0	It's nice to see you.
0:07.0	Thanks so much for doing this.
0:08.0	Yes, thank you, Tom.
0:09.0	Oh, this is great. I'm really looking forward to it.
0:11.0	Yeah, slow news week, so. not much going on in my world.
0:15.0	You know.
0:16.0	Yeah, I just was scrape around for something to say.
0:18.0	From New York Times opinion, I'm Lydia Polgrain.
0:22.0	I'm Ross Dauthit. I'm Lydia Polgrain.
0:22.8	I'm Ross Dauthit.
0:23.9	I'm Carlos Lusada.
0:25.4	And this is matter of opinion.
0:27.3	So, So over the past few weeks Israel and Iran have engaged in a military standoff
0:38.2	Israel struck the Iranian embassy in Syria killing several top
0:41.2	Iranian military officials. Then last weekend
0:44.6	Iran sent hundreds of drones and missiles towards Israel. And finally, early
0:49.7	this morning Israel retaliated striking a military base in Iran.
0:54.1	Michelle Kottel is out this week, so to try to unpack what all this means, we asked our
0:57.6	colleague Tom Friedman to join us.
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