Thomas Friedman started off his latest op-ed surprisingly well. Then he turned off his common sense and continued with his usual anti-Israel balderdash.
a- "Some of Israel’s worst critics are fond of saying that Israel behaves like America’s spoiled child. I’ve always found that analogy excessive. Say what you want about Israel’s obstinacy at times, it remains the only country in the United Nations that another U.N. member, Iran, has openly expressed the hope that it be wiped off the map. And that same country, Iran, is trying to build a nuclear weapon. Israel is the only country I know of in the Middle East that has unilaterally withdrawn from territory conquered in war — in Lebanon and Gaza — only to be greeted with unprovoked rocket attacks in return. Indeed, if you want to talk about spoiled children, there is no group more spoiled by Iran and Syria than Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia. Hezbollah started a war against Israel in 2006 that brought death, injury and destruction to thousands of Lebanese — and Hezbollah’s punishment was to be rewarded with thousands more missiles and millions more dollars to do it again. These are stubborn facts."
b-"And here’s another stubborn fact: Israel today really is behaving like a spoiled child..."
Part "b" is in direct opposition to part "a."
What makes this Thomas Friedman such an expert in morality, political science, self-defense etc? The facts he lists in Part "a" should be taken as facts, but in "b" he just returns to his nonsensical Leftist agenda.
At this point, I'd prefer a go by gut Sarah Palin to these pseudo-intellectual moralists like Thomas Friedman.
*Sorry, but the sentence just seemed too "empty" without the word. It just didn't read well to my ears.
4 comments:
Thomas Friedman seems to be arguing that while, historically Israel was not acting like a spoiled child, today it is.
He argues that Israel is acting like a spoiled child in refusing a two month extension of the freeze and it should be done "in order to take away any excuse from the Palestinians to avoid peace talks"
That wouldn;t work. They could always come up with new excuses. And as an excuse, this one is actually pretty implausible and pathetic.
Israel is an independent country not some kid to be bossed around by columnists and foreigners.
Israel is an independent country not some kid to be bossed around by columnists and foreigners.
And sadly,for the most part columnists and foreigners are bossing Israel around. Well, at least its leaders,
They know Jews and Israel in particular would do give everything including the kitchen sink for peace.
Instead the liberal are giving away the kitchen sink in exchange for nothing.
When I think of the defeaning silence of the liberals who were so anti nuclear anything for so long and now mum on Iran...I sometimes think they are all really going to let it happen.
Anti nuclear anything was the major topic of the day when I graduated from high school. There was The China Syndrome. The Day After. Chernobyl.
When it comes to Israel 2o years later? Silence.
exactly, my dear, Keli, thanks
Post a Comment