In which Tom Friedman says that Biden and Congress should stop "debasing" themselves on Israel and that Israel should "accept Hamas’s key demand" which is to "totally end the war now and withdraw from Gaza in exchange for the return of all Israeli hostages.".
There are frankly major problems with this editorial--referring to the status quo ante as a "total Israeli withdrawal and a stable cease-fire" ignores the reality of Israel's blockade of Gaza and control of much of Gaza's arable land as ongoing acts of war, for example--but yeah. Significant column.
atoning for his "suck on this" re: 911.
these days, somewhere down in that tom friedman consciousness of umpteen taxi drivers, he's come upon good insight.
Friedman has been remarkably clear-sighted about the Gaza assault from the beginning. It's shocking to find myself broadly agreeing with him because I dismissed him as an overhyped dolt back during the Iraq War.
Netanyahu doesn't care about the hostages; they are just a convenient excuse for another major land-grab. Israel chose expansion over security decades ago.