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Israel/Palestine

regnaD kciN

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1. Here we go again...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Jul 28, 2023, 12:08 AM

Jul 2023

It was, I believe, back in the Dubya administration when Friedman sent up his own cunning plan for bringing peace to the Middle East once and for all: that the Saudis should offer full recognition of and relations with Israel, in exchange for implementation of the two-state solution. His only regret was his sense that the Saudis lacked the foresight and courage to offer such a plan, because, if they did, “how could Israel possibly refuse?”

Within six months, the Saudis offered precisely this proposal. And Israel refused.

So, when Friedman now waxes poetic about Israel being told “You can annex the West Bank, or you can have peace with Saudi Arabia and the whole Muslim world, but you can’t have both, so which will it be?”…is there even the slightest question which it will be?

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THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Biden Is Weighing a Big Middle East Deal [View all] applegrove Jul 2023 OP

Here we go again... regnaD kciN Jul 2023 #1

You say there's little doubt how Israel would respond FBaggins Jul 2023 #5

none of this makes any sense Israeli Jul 2023 #6

I don't trust Friedman as far as I can throw him. rubbersole Jul 2023 #2

+11 applegrove Jul 2023 #3

Israelis are in the streets because Bibi is power mad. SleeplessinSoCal Jul 2023 #4