Stratfor has always been lousy. I visited their headquarters years ago and most of the work was done by snot-nosed grad students working part-time from UT. None of them had any experience. Friedman himself was consumed with trying to keep the outfit financially viable at the time.
The idea that abandonment of Israel will suddenly make the Islamic world love us ignores Islamic threat doctrine. It is typical shallow analysis from CIA folks like Friedman.
That explains a lot.