Posts Tagged: Thomas Friedman Israel
Thomas Friedman Knows Nothing About Israeli Democracy
In a recent article in The New York Times, the columnist Thomas Friedman promotes a plan to save Israel as a Jewish democracy: "Only Saudi...
When Experts Ignore the Truth About Israel and the Palestinians
JNS.org - When New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman offers up a Middle East peace plan, the world stops and listens. Or at least it...
An Israeli Peace Activist’s Rude Awakening
An Israeli peace activist who has devoted much of his life to demanding that Israel make more concessions to the Palestinians was treated to a...
Thomas Friedman’s Hectoring Yom Kippur Sermon
The pundit’s hectoring sermon, appearing in the New York Times on Yom Kippur, began as a movie review. Thomas Friedman pitched a new Israeli film,...
Thomas Friedman’s Career Is Built on a Lie
Israeli Army officials are reportedly furious that New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has accused the IDF of massacring Arab civilians. But what else is...
Why is Thomas Friedman Worrying About Antisemitism?
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has repeatedly claimed that Israel controls Washington, is warning that if Israel's prime minister addresses Congress next...
Arab Rock-Throwers Get Creative
Arab rock-throwers are getting more creative - in a deadly way. In the Middle East, rocks are plentiful, free, and sometimes lethal. Since ancient times, they...
Tom Friedman Shamefully Equates Sheldon Adelson With Iran
Istanbul, Turkey - I stopped here in the land of the Sultans en route to Rwanda for the twentieth anniversary of the genocide where I...
Boycott or Opportunity? You Can’t Have Both
JNS.org - There is a smug sense of "I told you so" about much of the recent commentary concerning the challenge that Israel faces...
Thomas Friedman: ‘Third Intifada’ is Boycott Movement Fueled by Settlements
JNS.org - The movement to boycott Israel is a "Third Intifada" whose roots are Israeli construction beyond the 1967 lines, New York Times columnist Thomas...
The Making of a New York Times Pundit
Until a week ago, it may be fair to say, few New York Times readers were acquainted with Israeli journalist Ari Shavit. A young writer...
Thomas Friedman: Congress More Interested in Jewish Votes than Obama’s Iran Plan
Thomas Friedman, in the New York Times, defends the Obama administration's offering concessions to Iran and has this to say about those who disagree: Never have I...
Thomas Friedman’s Folly
Thomas Friedman's boyhood infatuation with Israel following the Six-Day War quickly faded. During his undergraduate years at Brandeis in the mid-Seventies he belonged to the...
Middle Eastern Tunnel Vision
Imagine: until the Holland Tunnel was completed in 1927 New York and New Jersey had not been contiguous (defined in Webster's as "have contact with")....