Posted on 10/22/2010 1:07:57 PM PDT by Nachum
Columnist contends Americans no longer care about Israeli-Palestinian conflict and this could eventually hurt Israel's national security interests.
New York Times opinion columnist Thomas Friedman said that many Americans are becoming "fed up" with Israel. Friedman's comments came in an interview with Channel Two reporter Dana Weiss to be aired on Saturday.
Friedman stated that while the American public was by no means anti-Israel, they no longer care about the Israeli-Arab conflict and this could eventually hurt Israel's national security interests.
Friedman added that he believes Israel is not doing the utmost to promote renewed peace talks with the Palestinians. Friedman derided Israel's calls for the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish State in exchange for a renewed freeze on construction in the settlements that could revive peace talks. He jokingly said that Israel is asking for "Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] to sing Hatikva [Israel's national anthem] in a perfect Yiddish accent."
Friedman's comments followed a controversial op-ed entitled "Just Knock it Off" that appeared in Tuesday's New York Times in which he said "Israel today really is behaving like a spoiled child."
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Well Tom, a lot of us are fed-up with the likes of you.
All anyone has to do is Replace Israel with Iran in this article and then it will apply to the “American” people.
but as with most C/F/S/M/P Dummies We the People do NoT count. He is talking about his little elitist click of anti-semites.
Funny, he doesn’t sound Jewish.
He’s right. The people living in this country have developed a love affair with their future Islamofascist “leaders”. This causes them to jump on the antisemitism bandwagon.
Nothing so pathetic as a Jew who sells out his people.
No, Friedman, we are NOT “fed up with Israel.” We support the Israelis as the only free state in the Middle East., and our only ally there.
Shut up and eat your hummus.
Typical Thomas Al Freidman. BTW, how does your Jewish wife feel about this?
Tom has got to get out of Manhattan more often.
Only Liberals, Democrats, Terrorists, and Globalists have a problem with Israel. Friedmann just another brain-dead Liberal Globalist
Why? That's where all the Americans live.
what a tool....... a useful idiot
(who’s only useful to Israel-haters)
So, he's gunna get fired like Juan Williams.....right?
No, no, no. Only the pukes that run around in your echo chamber are sick of them Tom. The majority of America is sick of the arabs blowing up and terrorizing Israel.
I’ve been fed up with Friedman since the 80s.
define many
I will say that Thomas Friedman is the least intelligent "public intellectual" I've ever heard of.
I'm not saying that just because I disagree with his politics - I can't stand David Brooks' or Garry Wills' politics either, but they're not nearly as uninmpressive as Friedman.
His "big ideas" are painfully trivial, his observations are never insightful, his "analysis" is always boringly predictable and clumsy, his analogies are strained at best.
And his prose is not very elegant.
Perhaps in his world of where cowards like Friedman type their hate speech in their bathrobes? Does this Putz realize the New York Times is shrinking while the conservative movement in our nation is ascending?
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