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Strengthens Trump and Bibi' | Thomas Friedman's Iran dilemma
Arutz Sheva ^ | 12/8/26 | Yitz Goldberg

Posted on 04/12/2026 5:58:27 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

NYT columnist says that while he supports the downfall of the Iranian regime, he would not want to see it politically strengthen the leaders of the US and Israel, who he called 'terrible, terrible people.'

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Iran; Israel; Political Humor/Cartoons; War
KEYWORDS: dilemma; downfall; regime; thomasfreedman

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LOL. Suck it up, Freedman.
1 posted on 04/12/2026 5:58:27 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: All

Apparently Freedman has not heard about this:

Ganim and Kadim are two former Israeli settlements in the northern West Bank that were evacuated in 2005 but are currently being re-established. Following the 2023 repeal of the 2005 Disengagement Law, self-serving Israel authorized the return of land-grabbing settlers to these sites.

They are now being illegally re-established with government support and financing, using US tax dollars to create permanent, legal communities, inhabited by Israelis-only.

Ganim and Kadim are located in the northern West Bank, Palestinian territory, near the Palestinian city of Jenin. They were dismantled in 2005 as Israel’s US-financed bomb-laden military disengagement from Gaza and some northern West Bank areas.......all triggered by fierce Israeli military attacks on Gaza.

In 2023, the self-promoting Israeli Knesset not surprisingly “repealed” the long-held 2005 Israeli plan that “prevented” Israelis from re-entering these areas.

As of 2024–2025, after Israel bombed Gaza to oblivion citing some self-serving pretexts, the Israeli government has illegally taken steps to formally re-establish and legalize the installing of the notoriously land-grabbing settlers in Ganim and Kadim.

This move is often described by the self-interested Israelis as only “part” of a “strategic plan” to secure Israeli control of the region.

Although now considered “legalized” under Israeli law, many nations consider them, and all West Bank settlements “illegal” under international law.

Notorious land-grabbing settlers. and the self-serving Israeli govt, view the re-establishment of these settlements as “...only the first stage in correcting the ‘injustice’ of the disengagement” reports Facebook......

More bombings to follow

These illegal settlements are being calculatedly repopulated by Israeli citizens as part of a larger push by the Israeli government to expand land-grabbing settlements in the Palestinian occupied West Bank.


A FRIENDLY MEMO TO ADL: this statement is virulently anti-Semitic;
requires the intervention of the eternally vigilant ADL. “Have at it, people.”


2 posted on 04/12/2026 6:09:13 AM PDT by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Govrnment without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery .)
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To: Liz

Quit spamming posts with this trash.

CC


3 posted on 04/12/2026 6:12:17 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: Eleutheria5

I don’t care what Friedman, Maher, Carlson, or Owens think. No one should care what they think, yet it seems each has an audience. I might care what their audience is hearing.


4 posted on 04/12/2026 6:13:02 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Friedman is a terrible person and poor writer.


5 posted on 04/12/2026 6:14:57 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (ED)
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To: Celtic Conservative

You quit first.


6 posted on 04/12/2026 6:20:47 AM PDT by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Govrnment without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery .)
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To: Liz
Ganim and Kadim are two former Israeli settlements in the northern West Bank that were evacuated in 2005 but are currently being re-established.

Good news!

"Jenin" is the Arab colonizer name for Ein-Ganim, which is mentioned twice in the Bible, and was a Jewish town later ethnically cleansed by murderous Arab barbarians.

Nice to see rational Jews undoing the insanity of the leftist Oslo Accords surrender, and moving Jews back to Jewish land!

7 posted on 04/12/2026 6:21:32 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Liz

“They are now being illegally re-established with government support and financing….”

Illegal according to who exactly?

“Ganim and Kadim are located in the northern West Bank, Palestinian territory…”

There’s no such thing as “palestinian” territory. It’s a fiction. A lie.

“self-serving Israel authorized the return of land-grabbing settlers to these sites…”

No bias there.

L


8 posted on 04/12/2026 6:25:15 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Friedman would prefer Iran gets nukes and continues to threaten its
Gulf neighbors because TDS is strong in this midget.


9 posted on 04/12/2026 6:27:01 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITT)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
What's his FR nick?

10 posted on 04/12/2026 6:44:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Liz

What a witty riposte. Tell me, did it take you a while to think of it?

CC


11 posted on 04/12/2026 6:49:58 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: tennmountainman

As the mushroom clouds burst, and the phonograph sings “we’ll meet again,” he’ll be happy that Trump and Bibi were made to look bad.


12 posted on 04/12/2026 7:24:31 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: Celtic Conservative

+1

We don’t need to see what little tommy puts out


13 posted on 04/12/2026 8:02:54 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Eleutheria5

LOL. Poor Tom. He is too old to take the leap into modern liberal insanity of actually supporting Iran. If he did, he could sleep at night with a perfectly logical position - hate the US and Israel and support Iran. But he can’t. That old school liberal affinity for Israel still tugs at him even though Israel is run by the evil Netanyahu. So he is torn.


14 posted on 04/12/2026 8:19:36 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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