New York Times Hates Netanyahu So Much, It Wants to Stop Peace Deal Between Israel and Saudi Arabia

Thomas L. Friedman, one of the most egregiously and consistently wrongheaded columnists on the New York Times’ roster, where there is stiff competition for such appellations, proclaimed in a Tuesday op-ed that “You Can’t Normalize Relations With a Government That Isn’t Normal.” He wasn’t referring to the Biden regime, as he continues steadfastly to ignore its authoritarian bent and determination to criminalize its legitimate opposition. Friedman was referring instead to the government of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel; the far-left columnist hates the Israeli prime minister with such passionate intensity that he would rather prevent a major step toward peace in the Middle East than see the man he hates gain a political victory.

Friedman is suffering from a severely advanced and possibly terminal case of moral myopia. He acknowledges, somewhat grudgingly, that if this agreement is concluded, the people involved will win the Nobel Peace Prize. This is likely true, since it’s the Biden regime, not the man these people consider to be the focus of evil in the modern world, Donald Trump, that is trying to get Israel and the Saudis to make a deal. Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for the Abraham Accords, but of course didn’t get it, because he is not a member of the Leftist political elite class. For its part, the Biden regime did its best to undermine those accords before realizing that if it could pull off an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, it could avoid some of the fallout for its relentlessly anti-Israel policies.

In any case, an accord between Israel and Saudi Arabia would be a world-historical achievement, even if the Israel-hating Biden regime wonks bring it about for their own cynical and self-serving purposes. Saudi Arabia was one of the Arab states that invaded the nascent state of Israel as soon as it declared its independence in 1948; its hostility toward the Jewish state has been unremitting, based as it is upon the Jew-hatred that is deeply embedded in the Qur’an and the words and deeds of Muhammad. Although the possibility of the Saudis joining the Abraham Accords has been on the table since the Trump administration first announced those accords, even an uneasy friendship between the Jewish state and the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places could have extraordinarily sweeping consequences. So why would Tom Friedman want to head off such a possibility, which could give the Middle East and the world a period of peace that could last for generations?

It’s simple: because Tom Friedman hates Benjamin Netanyahu that much. More misery in Israel and the world? That’s no problem as far as Friedman is concerned, as long as Netanyahu fails.

The confusion in Friedman’s mind is on full display as he assures us that an Israeli/Saudi agreement would “almost certainly cause the breakup of the current Israeli ruling coalition, which is led by far-right Jewish supremacists the likes of which have never held national security powers in Israel before.” If that were true, Friedman should be hailing the possibility of such an accord, as it would mean the end of Netanyahu’s latest tenure as prime minister. But Friedman doesn’t even believe what he is claiming, as he hastens to add that “this is not the version that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is trying to sell us.” He then issues a plea: “So, I want to appeal directly to President Biden and the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman: Do not let Netanyahu make you his useful idiots. You cannot have normalization with an Israeli government that is not normal. It will never be a stable U.S. ally or Saudi partner. And right now, Israel’s government is not normal.”

Why does Friedman think Israel’s current government is so dangerous? For the same reason that the leftist elites have determined to frame and destroy Trump: he is not one of them, and could end up exposing the full extent of their authoritarianism, corruption, and mendacity. Friedman is a made guy, a respected member of the media elites who have a symbiotic relationship with the corrupt political class; he needs them as much as they need him. There is considerable movement between the groups, such as George Stephanopoulos moving from the Clinton White House to ABC, and Jen Psaki from the Biden White House to MSNBC, and as compromised as they are, they give each other an air of respectability.

Friedman, however, has let his respectable commentator mask slip disastrously. In wishing further strife upon the Middle East rather than allowing Netanyahu a triumph, Friedman has made abundantly clear what keen-eyed observers have known he was all along: a shallow, relentlessly partisan hack with no knowledge of his claimed fields of expertise and no interest in setting out the facts accurately and honestly. You cannot get good commentary from a columnist who is not normal. Tom Friedman will never be a stable observer of the contemporary scene or analyst of the course we should take in the future. Right now, and always, Tom Friedman is a leftist shill.

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john

7 months ago

only way to stop woke companies and individuals is with not buying the newspapers. lets get smarter

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teslarules

7 months ago

Reply to  john

Absolutely! He who has the gold rules!

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ZionistFuzz

7 months ago

The New York Slimes is unfit for bird cage liner. That is cruelty to pets.

Friedman is an anti-Zionist JINO that needs to keep his nose out of Israeli politics.

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T D

7 months ago

Reply to  ZionistFuzz

(Screenshot of RT.com’s documentary site. September 2023):

https://rtd.rt.com/tags/israel-documentaries/

And as anti-Israel as the New York Slimes is, it’s only a bronze medalist compared to Russian State Media. They call Netanyahu a “Crime Minister”. They even hire Hamas journalists.

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teslarules

7 months ago

Reply to  T D

The NYT is the American branch of Pravda!

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T D

7 months ago

Reply to  ZionistFuzz

The Russian government called Israel an “open-air prison” for Palestinians; and called Israel an illegal occupation.

Russian Foreign Ministry – Statement on Israel:

“…the Israeli government continues the illegal occupation and “creeping annexation” of Palestinian territories,…”

“The Gaza Strip has essentially become an “open-air prison”, whose two million people have been forced to survive for almost 14 years under the conditions of the sea, air and land blockade imposed by Israel.”

https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1809543/

What the Democrats only dream of in terms of anti-Israelism, the Russian Federation has already been doing for 10+ years.

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darev

7 months ago

The Abraham Accords are a mistake no matter how you cut it. Israel has to give up its own sovereignty and the rule of law for these “normalization” agreements, and that makes it even harder for Israel to apply the rule of Law throughout all of Israel.

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T D

7 months ago

I hope Robert Spencer and others are reporting on the anti-Israelism expressed by the Russian State Media. And not just the minor league antisemites at the New York Times by comparison.

The Russian state media has called Netanyahu a “Crime Minister”; and said Israel was an “open air prison” and illegal occupation.

https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1809543/
https://rtd.rt.com/tags/israel-documentaries/

See my other comments above with screenshots.

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Eric Arthur Blair

7 months ago

The New York Slimes hid Marxist and Nazi crimes. They buried the Holocaust in the back pages to the eternal damnation.

There are a heinous organization on the side of Evil.

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teslarules

7 months ago

Reply to  Eric Arthur Blair

Historian: New evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans
https://www.timesofisrael.com/historian-new-evidence-shows-fdrs-bigotry-derailed-many-holocaust-rescue-plans/

SS St. Louis: The ship of Jewish refugees nobody wanted
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27373131

It’s interesting the Democrats carried out the Trail of Tears long before the Nazis built concentration camps.
World Class Panderers – The Real Democrats–Who Are They?
https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-real-democrats-who-are-they

Fetishes of dead totalitarian systems of the last century are to the curiosities of modern leftism
Nazi Oaks Book Review

https://canadafreepress.com/article/nazi-oaks-book-review

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The Mayor

7 months ago

If Friedman is against Israel`s deal with he Saudis, then, the deal MUST be good for Israel!

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T D

7 months ago

Reply to  The Mayor

Makes sense.

And Friedman thinks he knows it all. He’s a lifelong liberal.

Then he visited the Southern border, and when he saw the chaos he declared he wanted a border wall afterall.

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Stephen Honig

7 months ago

Fuck the NY Times.

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teslarules

7 months ago

Does it surprise me? Not at all! That paper bills itself as anything but what it really is.

REVEALED: New York Times Uncritically Published From Hitler’s Mein Kampf on Eve
of Largest Nazi Military Push
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/new-york-times-publishes-hitler/

The family who owns the New York Times were pro-Confederacy slave owners, and The
National Pulse can today reveal the Times‘ fawning coverage of an anti-black vote conference with pro-lynching advocates in attendance. The paper’s headlines from the time declared: “NEGRO SUFFRAGE A FAILURE.”
https://thenationalpulse.com/news/new-york-times-slavery-conference-editorials/

Given these facts look at what Dinesh D’Sousa wrote!
Dinesh D’Souza: What Hitler Learned from the Democrats
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/07/31/dinesh-dsouza-hitler-learned-democrats/

Dinesh D’Souza: A Mutual Admiration Society: FDR and the Left’s Romance with Fascism
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/08/07/exclusive-dinesh-dsouza-a-mutual-admiration-society-fdr-and-the-lefts-romance-with-fascism/

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