NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST THOMAS FRIEDMAN DISGUSTS ME!

Friedman has the sickening audacity to compare Israel’s Jewish settlers to Hamas

From Ukraine to the Middle East, some bad actors — Hamas, Vladimir Putin and Israeli settlers to name but a few…..

That’s how Thomas Friedman introduced, “And Now for a Bit of Good News…,” an op-ed that was published in Sunday’s New York Times. At first I could not believe what I read – Friedman comparing Israel’s Jewish settlers to Hamas.

Then again, I should not have been surprised. Friedman has long ago exposed himself as a Jewish Israel-hater. He has blamed the West Bank settlements for the impasse between Israel and the Palestinians. He deliberately disregards the fact that long before the first settlement was ever built, the Palestinians were determined to drive the Jews into the sea. He deliberately disregards the fact that the Palestinians are merely using the settlements as an excuse for their refusal to agree to peace with the Jewish state.

Friedman has long excoriated Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli right, blaming them for Israel’s failure to reach a peace accord with the Palestinians. He agreed with the Obama administration when it blamed the impasse on the settlements. And he applauded his friend John Kerry for pressuring Israel to make suicidal concessions to its enemies. While Friedman savages Israel’s right, he supports Israel’s dovish left which wants to grovel at the feet of Palestinians in its eagerness to avoid any conflict no matter the cost.

Friedman has praised Mahmoud Abbas as a moderate who favors a two state solution - Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace. Friedman knows very well that nothing could be further from the truth. Unless he’s been hiding under a rock, Friedman has to be aware that Abbas has long spoken with a forked tongue. When he addresses the international community in English, he declares that he wants a two state solution. But time after time, whenever he speaks in Arabic, he declares there will be only one state from the (Jordan) River to the (Mediterranean) Sea – a Palestinian state with no Jews allowed. And Friedman knows very well that other ‘moderate’ Palestinian leaders also keep making the same vows over and over again.

Now Friedman has hit a new low. How dare this Jewish Israel-hater compare Israel’s Jewish settlers to Hamas. In doing so, he stereotypes all settlers as extremists, which most of them are not. Sure there are extremists among the settlers just as there are extremists among the left. But to broad-brush the settlers as terrorists, which is what he is doing by comparing them with Hamas, is simply outrageous and absolutely unforgivable. He might as well have compared the settlers to the Nazis.

Friedman obviously thinks the 500,000 Israeli West Bank settlers are mad-dog extremists because they are unalterably opposed to the dismantlement of their homes. Apparently he cannot understand why the settlers do not want to be uprooted like the former settlers in Gaza were. Their strong commitment to maintain their homes does not make them extremists or terrorists as Friedman seems to think.

Thomas Friedman claims to be a friend of Israel. With friends like him, Israel sure as hell does not need any enemies!

Friedman is an embarrassment to the Jewish people. Nothing could be more outrageous than for him to compare Israel’s Jewish settlers to Hamas, an internationally recognized group of terrorists. As I said, Friedman might as well have compared the settlers to the Nazis. He obviously knows no bounds when it comes to denigrating his fellow Jews. The man really disgusts me!