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Thomas L. Friedman
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Jerold S. Auerbach
April 20, 2022
‘The New York Times’ fixation with ‘occupation’
Readers are told that “much of the world” considers Old City Jerusalem to be “occupied,” but no supporting evidence is provided, largely because there is none.
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Jerold S. Auerbach
March 24, 2022
Thomas Friedman and Israel
It long ago became evident that when he writes a column about the Jewish state, readers should expect a barrage of criticism.
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Jonathan S. Tobin
January 13, 2022
The war to save democracy could kill democracy
The notion that Americans should emulate Israel’s coalition is based on a fallacy about both countries. And the more liberals talk about democracy dying, the more it’s in danger.
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Jerold S. Auerbach
June 8, 2021
Thomas Friedman’s obsession
On his way to a semester at the Hebrew University as a Brandeis University undergraduate, Friedman visited Cairo. Smitten by Arab culture, his embrace of Israel was short-lived.
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Rabbi Elie Abadie
March 24, 2021
An open letter to Tom Friedman from the UAE
Your assertion that “among the Israeli groups aggressively reaching out to the Gulf Arabs to come visit are right-wing Jewish settlers” is completely unfounded.
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Mitchell Bard
March 17, 2021
The two Tom Friedmans
Analyst Friedman observes that the establishment of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan “could be game-changing.” Prime Minister Friedman wants to change the game by returning to the failed approach of trying to pressure Israel for concessions.
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Jonathan S. Tobin
December 3, 2020
How will Biden respond to Iran’s ‘no’ to a new deal?
Tehran has already signaled that it won’t renegotiate Obama’s pact. How will a new president change that if he’s already given up all of his leverage?
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Stephen M. Flatow
November 16, 2020
Thomas Friedman lectures about lying
The problem is that the columnist himself seems to disagree with his own words.
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Joseph Frager
October 13, 2020
Let us not abandon the sovereignty plan
Whether the 2,000-year dream of reapplying Jewish sovereignty to Israel’s biblical and historic heartland is advanced will depend largely on the outcome of the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
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Jerold S. Auerbach
September 17, 2020
Thomas Friedman’s folly
The columnist remains as he was as a Brandeis undergraduate: yearning for Palestinian statehood and furious at Israel for its determination to rebuild a state within its ancient Jewish homeland.
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Stephen M. Flatow
September 7, 2020
Unpleasant news for Thomas Friedman
Does the level of the Kinneret have anything to do with the prospects for peace in the Middle East? He’d like you to think that it does.
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Stephen M. Flatow
August 3, 2020
Advice to Jewish celebs: Grow up!
They’re mad at their parents for being pro-Israel, so they take it out on the rest of us, battering the Jewish world with their incessant whining.
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Jerold S. Auerbach
April 17, 2020
Thomas Friedman’s political fantasy
How could a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, who served as Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief between 1984-88 and a columnist ever since, endorse Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for anything but a kindergarten class on Israel and the Middle East?
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Jonathan S. Tobin
September 20, 2018
When experts ignore the truth about the Palestinians
The latest Middle East peace plan from Thomas Friedman of “The New York Times” ignores the key fact about why such schemes always fail.
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