Friedman's 4/3 NYT column

[Bradford DeLong]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com>
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>>  Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:33:31 -0500
>>  From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org>
>>  Subject: Re: Friedman's 4/3 NYT column
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>>  Friedman has actually had reasonably decent politics around the
>Palestinians,
>
>-I challenge you to find one Palestinian or Arab who agrees with the
>-assessment that Friedman has "reasonably decent politics around the
>-Palestinians"
>
>Friedman supports a two-state solution with the dismantling of Israeli
>settlements and Palestinians having full sovereignty over the Temple Mount,
>exactly the demands of the Palestinians that the Israelis rejected. He
>denounced Israel for expanding settlements during the Oslo peace process,
>calling them "greedy, idiotic settlements" or "idiotic rapacious
>settlements."  He has supported international peacekeepers in the West Bank
>to guarantee the peace, something Palestinians have promoted and Israel has
>opposed.
>
>Yes, Friedman doesn't like suicide bombers but his solution is the
>dismantling of the settlements and international peacekeeping.
>
>How is that not decent politics?
>
>-- Nathan Newman

Because he doesn't advocate the destruction of the racist apartheid 
Israeli regime, of course, as all those with "decent" politics do...

Brad DeLong