Tom Friedman claims to be a foreign policy “expert” and pontificates from the Ed Op pages of the New York Times. In retrospect he has been wrong in just about all his writings. There is simply no serious leader in Israel who actually believes that a “two state” solution will result in long term peace. They know better. They know what happened when they allowed an independent, militarized Palestinian state in Gaza. Missiles rained on Israel and a costly war was fought. An even larger, militarized adjacent Palestinian state would be even more problematic regardless of “ironclad” promises and guarantees. Peace will only come to the region when either Palestine or Israel cease to be definable political entities. They have emotional and incompatible claims to the same land.
Thomas L. Friedman founded the “Students for Arafat” group when he was a college student at Brandeis University.