Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: June 01, 2023, 05:34:16 pm »
About Friedman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Friedman
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Friedman is Jewish.[6] He attended Hebrew school five days a week until his Bar Mitzvah,[7] then St. Louis Park High School, where he wrote articles for his school's newspaper.[8] He became enamored with Israel after a visit there in December 1968, and he spent all three of his high school summers living on Kibbutz HaHotrim, near Haifa.[9] He has characterized his high school years as "one big celebration of Israel's victory in the Six-Day War."[9]
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Friedman has been criticized by organizations such as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting for defending Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon as a form of "educating" Israel's opponents; according to FAIR, Friedman was explicitly endorsing terrorism by Israel against Lebanese and Palestinians.[51]
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his encouragement of strong-armed force by the Israeli army against Palestinians; and his opposition to settlements only on the grounds that they are counter-productive, rather than because they violate international law or cause suffering for Palestinians. Fernandez suggests that Friedman is most worried about successfully maintaining Israel's Jewish ethnocracy
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In September 2020, Friedman told CNBC that "Trump is not the American president America deserves, in my opinion. But he definitely is the American president China deserved. We needed to have a president who was going to call the game with China. And Trump has done it, with I would say more grit and toughness than any of his predecessors. I give him credit for that."[69]