Obama and the Jews

The New York Slimes ^ | May 18, 2008 | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

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Obama and the Jews

Pssst. Have you heard? I have. I heard that Barack Obama once said there has to be “an end” to the Israeli “occupation” of the West Bank “that began in 1967.” Yikes!

Pssst. Have you heard? I have. I heard that Barack Obama said that not only must Israel be secure, but that any peace agreement “must establish Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people.” Yikes!

Pssst. Have you heard? I have. I heard that Barack Obama once said “the establishment of the state of Palestine is long overdue. The Palestinian people deserve it.” Yikes! Yikes! Yikes!

Those are the kind of rumors one can hear circulating among American Jews these days about whether Barack Obama harbors secret pro-Palestinian leanings. I confess: All of the above phrases are accurate. I did not make them up.

There’s just one thing: None of them were uttered by Barack Obama. They are all direct quotes from President George W. Bush in the last two years.

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Maureen Dowd is off today.

Maureen Dowd is off almost every day.

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Pssst.....have you heard...?

The Palestinians were offered their state in October of 2000 and Arafat turned it down.

I have.

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>> It seems too silly to deserve rebuttal.

That accurately expresses my thoughts about everything that blowbag Friedman has ever written.

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I am interested in whether there are rebuttals to this articles.

Not in the Slimes there won't be. Little Tommy Friedman is their personal R2D2 android wordsmith, and he would blow a circuit if the MSM challenged any of his bright-boy ideas.

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Maureen Dowd is off today.

So is Tommy Friedman

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Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent

I'm sure Nicholas Kristof is an expert in the nuances of Arabic accents. Just like Tom Friedman is an expert at the inner thoughts of the leaders of the Middle East.

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Thomas Friedman

"..Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American author and columnist. He is an op-ed contributor to The New York Times, whose column appears twice weekly and mainly addresses topics on foreign affairs. Friedman is known for supporting a compromise resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, modernization of the Arab world, environmentalism and globalization. Although an early supporter of the invasion of Iraq, he later became an outspoken critic of the war and the Bush administration..."

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But what matters a lot more is that under Mr. Bush, America today is neither feared nor respected nor liked in the Middle East, and that his lack of an energy policy for seven years has left Israel’s enemies and America’s enemies — the petro-dictators and the terrorists they support — stronger than ever.

Ask Osama if he fears America Tom. Oh that’s right, you can’t because he’s hiding in a cave. Oh and Tom, Bush’s energy policy was blocked by the Democrat filibusters. Friedman has BDS.

There's room for argument there IMO. I'm honestly not sure what kind of politically viable energy policy would have weakened the petro-dictators. I know that there is one less petro-dictator than there was when President Bush took office.