Friedman's 4/3 NYT column

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Wed Apr 3 11:33:31 PST 2002


Friedman has actually had reasonably decent politics around the Palestinians, ultimately choosing Israel security over Palestinian rights if the choice was made (Alterman's note), but also hard-headed enough to recognize that Israel will never be secure until it makes real peace with the Palestinians.

Frankly, this fits into his pro-globalization views, where Israel will be most secure if it creates strong economic ties in the region-- choose the Lexus over the nationalistic olive tree in Friedman's parlance.

-- Nathan Newman

----- Original Message ----- From: <ajacobson at igc.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 2:07 PM Subject: Friedman's 4/3 NYT column

Did Friedman call for U.S./Nato intervention to form a Palestinian state? Did I read it correctly or not? Isn't that a significant position to take at this time?

Alan Jacobson Detroit



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