I'm Helene Cooper.
I cover the US military for the New York Times.
So I'm sitting in my car in a parking lot outside the Pentagon.
I had a cubicle with a desk inside the building for years,
but the Trump administration has taken that away.
People in power have always made it difficult for journalists.
It hasn't stopped us in the past.
It's not going to stop us now.
I will keep working to get you the facts.
This work doesn't happen without subscribers to The New York Times.
This is The Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm Patrick Healy, deputy editor for New York Times Opinion.
My colleague, the columnist Tom Friedman, just returned from a reporting trip to Israel.
The war has been grinding on in Gaza for more than 19 months.
There are around 20 living hostages still there,
and it's estimated that more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed.
I wanted to talk to Tom about what he learned on his trip, about Israel's future.
and about a growing anti-war sentiment that he saw in the country.