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 ...
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In 2023, the self-promoting Israeli Knesset not surprisingly “repealed” the long-held 2005 Israeli plan that “prevented” Israelis from re-entering these areas.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.”
Quit spamming posts with this trash.
CC
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.
Friedman is a terrible person and poor writer.
You quit first.
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!
“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.
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Friedman would prefer Iran gets nukes and continues to threaten its
Gulf neighbors because TDS is strong in this midget.
What's his FR nick?
What a witty riposte. Tell me, did it take you a while to think of it?
CC
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.
+1
We don’t need to see what little tommy puts out
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.
Freedman has had a hate-on for Israel for years. Maybe it’s supporting Iran that’s the deal breaker. They are simply one smidgeon too odious for him.
WIKI [Jenin]
According to a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Jenin had a population of 2,637 (2,307 Muslims, 212 Hindus, 108 Christians, seven Jews, and three Sikhs). A following census in 1931 showed a slight increase to 2,706 (2,610 Muslims, 103 Christians, two Jews, and one Druze) with another 68 in nearby suburbs (all Muslims). From 1936, Jenin became a center of rebellion against the British Mandatory authorities. By the summer of 1938, residents of the city embarked on “an intensified campaign of murder, intimidation and sabotage” that caused the British administration “grave concern”, according to a British report to the League of Nations; the population had further increased to 3,100. The city played an important role in the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, prompted by the death of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam in a fire-fight with British colonial police at the nearby town of Ya’bad months prior to the start of the revolt. On 25 August 1938, the day after the British Assistant District Commissioner was assassinated in his Jenin office, a large British force with explosives entered the town. Despite having captured and killed the assassin, British forces ordered the inhabitants to leave, and blew up one quarter of the town as a form of punishment.
The village statistics of 1945 list the population as 3,990 (3,840 Muslims and 150 Christians).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenin
Friedman is an idiot in addition to being just plain STOOPID!
Thanks for all the great news.
More Israelis. Fewer muzzies. Works for me.
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