JOHN KERRY’S PIPE DREAM OF A PEACE PLAN PROMOTED BY ANTI-ISRAEL THOMAS FRIEDMAN

Friedman promotes Kerry’s plan for Israel to be recognized as a Jewish State in exchange for a divided Jerusalem

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, billionaire George Soros and J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami are among America’s leading anti-Israel Jews. Friedman, a favorite of the Obama administration, is promoting John Kerry’s latest Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal.

In a Times column, Friedman reports on and promotes a Kerry pipe dream that would have Israel and the Palestinians make core concessions to achieve a lasting peace. Israel would withdraw from the West Bank in stages, but we be allowed to maintain sovereignty over the large Jewish settlement blocks. In return, the Palestinians would be given some Israeli lands.

Kerry’s plan provides for a divided Jerusalem, with the eastern part of the Holy City being recognized as the capital of Palestine. In return for giving up the eastern part of Jerusalem, the Palestinians would explicitly recognize Israel as a Jewish State.

Kerry and Friedman must be smoking some funny tobacco. Abbas has repeatedly and emphatically rejected any suggestion that Israel be recognized as a Jewish State. And poll after poll shows that Israeli Jews will not tolerate the “re-division of their ancient and sacred capital.” If Netanyahu or any other prime minister were to agree to divide Jerusalem, he would be run out of office in a New York minute.

Israel Today reports that “Abbas has staked his political legacy on achieving a ‘right of return’ for Palestinians to Israel-proper,” and yet according to Friedman, Kerry’s plan does not allow for the return of Palestinian refugees. And Abbas “has been so adamant about never calling Israel a ‘Jewish state’ that it is somewhat unreasonable for anyone to expect him to change his mind now.”

And then there is Hamas, which “has demonstrated its ability to win Palestinian elections and ascend to the highest positions of power.” Hamas issued a statement Tuesday in which it vowed never to accept a two-state solution and never to give up even "one inch of the land of Palestine," which to them includes all of Israel.

Furthermore, Kerry and Friedman not only disregard the vows of Hamas, but they also ignore the oft-repeated vows of Abbas and other Fatah leaders of the PLO that there will be only one state from the (Jordan) river to the (Mediterranean) sea ... and that's not just rhetoric. It clearly means there will be no Jewish homeland, only a Palestinian State which is the actual goal of the PLO.

What we have here is a Jewish New York Times columnist pretending to be a supporter of Israel, trying to help the Secretary of State in his quest for the Nobel Peace Prize, knowing full-well that Kerry’s plan will eventually lead to the obliteration of the Jewish State.

Israel Today’s Ryan Jones says, “Why Kerry or Friedman believe that this latest proposal will lead to a different result than those that came before it is beyond me.” Ryan, it’s simple … they’re a couple of dickheads.