this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed 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 missile 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 president? 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 zelico whose covid crisis just released its report. but first, here s my take, visiting india this week i was
stepped private foundations and the covid crisis group of the formed. after two years of work its report was published this week in a book titled lessons from the covid war an investigative group, and philip joins me now. pleasure to have you on. good to be here, fareed. why do you think contrast to the 9/11 commission there really was no appetite on either side of the aisle to look at. here we have this massive pandemic over a million americans died and nobody seems to want to ask did we handle it well? part of what happened is each side had its blame story. so on the republican side it s blame china blame tony fauci, the democratic side it s blame trump and since each side had their political narrative they did not want to complex ify that
president? 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 zelico whose covid crisis 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 populist 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