2024-09-05
8 分钟Hi, I'm Josh Haner and I'm a staff photographer at the New York Times covering climate change.
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My name is Thomas Friedman and I'm the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times.
I want to talk about how Bibi Netanyahu is trying to save himself, elect Donald Trump and defeat Kamala Harris.
And he's doing all of this even at the cost of Israel's long term survival.
He's willing to make things worse in Gaza and derail any ceasefire and hostage deal, even get Trump re elected in order to align and realize his own personal goals.
Netanyahu has really had three goals for as long as I've covered him.
One is to stay in power and get elected, which has usually involved staying very close to the right in Israel.
Which leads to his second goal, which is to make sure the Palestinians never have a unified, moderate leadership that could actually be a partner for a two state solution.
And that has always entailed keeping Hamas viable in Gaza and putting down the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
And thirdly, it's a domestic priority of his, which has been to defeat the left in Israel, the elites in Israel, and basically strip them of their power to set cultural and political agendas in Israel.
People have asked me, what's the name of this war?
You know, every Middle east war had a name.
And my suggestion is that we should call this war the war of the worst.
Because I've never seen a Middle east war where the worst people on all sides were driving it.