This is gps the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you live from new york. Today on the program, tensions and deaths mount in the middle east as the world watches and awaits israels expected Ground Invasion of gaza. Ill talk to former Prime Minister ehud barack who is one of the most decorated soerms. Well talk about fighting hamas, a potential Ground Invasion, and whether a divided israel has been united by war. Then, retired general David Petraeus led the American Military fight against insurgents in iraq and afghanistan and more. What lessons from those wars should israel take into its war on hamas. Im ask pet rayous and his coauthor, Andrew Roberts. But first here is my take. The crisis in the middle east has revealed an important reality about the world. While american influence may not be what it once was, it is still true that no other country can replace the u. S. As the pivotal player on the global
Next, stage, israel air strikes ahead of the likely invasion as fears grow the region could be drawn into the c conflict. What is israels plan. Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee mike turner joins many he. And lifeline. More humanitarian trucks poised to enter gaza carrying desperately needed food and water and medical supplies. These trucks are not just trucks. They are a lifel line. But are conditions about to get much worse . Plus at odds. With future aid to israel on the line, the republicans are back to square one in the speakership as they plan for more votes could anyone unite the conference . Liz cheney is here for her first interview in more than a year. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the tate of the union is grieving, so many pain and loss of life. This morning the Israeli Military is stepping up air strikes against hamas in gauze and the idf hit a mosque to prevent a imminent Terror Attack as we learn details about the brutality of the hamas Terrorist At
divide up the different responsibilities. this is where we re seeing increasingly across the region, a kind of darwinian evolution, rather than democracy taking flower. it s survival of the fittest rather than trying to develop a common good. that s where iraq has been such a tragedy. in the same what i that when lebanon was when i lived there in the 1980s, when it went through its own civil war, 15 years over the issue of power sharing between christians and muslims. it took 15 years to sort out that basic principle. the danger is iraq becomes will be non-ized. you see this being a prolonged struggle over the basic struggle how they share power. if they can t come up with that basic principle, there s no pros peck of building institutions,
resolution must come with a renunsiation of force by the u.s. translator: you can t really ask syria or any other country to disarm unilaterally while military force against it is being contemplated. they say that will orange strengthen diplomacy. nothing focuses the mind like the pros peck of a hang. looming over the negotiations, deep distrust that the syrians are truly committed to giving up their chemical weapons for good and that russia is committed to making them keep their word. when you see the plane loads of russian arms flying into damascus on a daily basis, tons and tons, when you see the russian veto time after time of any resolution in the security council, i think is ample reason to to be skeptical. but practical obstacles to ridding syria of chemical weapons may be even more imposing than the diplomatic.
they say that will orange strengthen diplomacy. nothing focuses the mind like the pros peck of a hang. looming over the negotiations, deep distrust that the syrians are truly committed to giving up their chemical weapons for good and that russia is committed to making them keep their word. when you see the plane loads of russian arms flying into damascus on a daily basis, tons and tons, when you see the russian veto time after time of any resolution in the security council, i think is ample reason to to be skeptical. but practical obstacles to ridding syria of chemical weapons may be even more imposing than the diplomatic. syria has 1,000 tons of numerous chemical agents, including ingredients for mustard, sarin and vx gas. in six known sites and many more unknown, now likely dispersed and hidden as the u.s. has