CarolineGlick.com: Tom Friedman's losing battle

CarolineGlick.com / December 20, 2011

Tom Friedman's losing battle

 

For decades New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman balanced his substantively anti-Israel positions with repeated protestations of love for Israel.

 

His balancing act ended last week when he employed traditional anti-Semitic slurs to dismiss the authenticity of substantive American support for Israel.

 

Channeling the longstanding anti-Semitic charge that Jewish money buys support for power-hungry Jews best expressed in the forged 19th century Protocols of the Elders of Zion and in John Mearshimer's and Stephen Walt's 2007 book The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, Friedman denied the significance of the US Congress's overwhelming support for Israel.

 

As he put it, "I sure hope that Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby."

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  Tom Friedman's love song to self
  
•  In the wake of Friedman's latest anti-Semitic slanderof Israel and the American people who support it, and in the wake of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's decision to tell him and his paper to take a hike I think it is appropriate to repost Latma's song for Friedman from five months back. It is as true today as it was then.
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