This is another installment in the amazing adventures of Tom Terrific (aka Friedman) in Palestine, wherein our hero goes slumming through the West Bank seeking economic miracles to which he can attribute the magical touch of “Prime Minister” Salam Fayyad. Here’s one particular howler from today’s column: …If the Palestinians can build a real economy, […]
Tom Friedman: Consultant to IDF General Staff
Now here I thought Tom “Terrific” Friedman was the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for the N.Y. Times. Little did I know he’s carrying on a nice little consulting business on the side giving lectures to members of the IDF general staff and passing on intelligence information to them he gleaned from visits to Arab states: …Friedman […]
Tom Friedman Heart Fatah
Tom Friedman has long since ceased being relevant in any meaningful way to the debate about the Israeli-Arab conflict. But every once in a while he weighs in from on-high where he dwells with the journalistic equivalent of the Delphic oracle. Yesterday, he wrote a paean to the “new” Palestine under the effective, vigorous, non-corrupt […]
Tom Friedman Wins Journalism Award, Lamest Paragraph Written About Gaza
Tom Friedman wins the award for worst single paragraph written about the Gaza war by someone who ought to know better: The fighting, death and destruction in Gaza is painful to watch. But it’s all too familiar. It’s the latest version of the longest-running play in the modern Middle East, which, if I were to […]
