Fareed Zakaria

Very, very few serious observers of it think that that was going on.

So there was a way to contain Iran without the extraordinary destruction.

But I think that what Israel has done has come at a cost.

I look at Bibi Netanyahu's long reign as prime minister, and I wonder if in the long run, what people will notice is that his legacy was to split apart the alliance between the United States and Israel.

He began by...

politicizing it in a poisonous way when Obama was president.

He went and did an end run around Obama, went and addressed Congress.

He openly fought with Obama and tried to turn the issue of Israel into a partisan issue, and then has unleashed so much firepower.

Israel is the superpower of the Middle East.

Israel is currently occupying 10% of Lebanon.

It has displaced one million people.

Right, exactly.

And you look at all of that and then... I mean, that on scale is a second Nakba.

Right.

And just remember, you know, these are 600,000 human beings.

That's women, that children who did nothing, who were in no way involved in Hezbollah's, you know, rocket campaign against Israel.

So you ask yourself, is the price that now...

a majority of Americans have an unfavorable view of Israel, that a majority of young people have a very unfavorable view of Israel.

And if you look beyond America, it's not just America.

I think the Dutch just joined the South African case in the international court.