Political Observer only has so much tolerance!
Aug 25, 2025
Editor: The first sentence demonstartes Friedman’s utter Moral/Ethical vapidity!
I will leave it to historians to debate whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. But what is absolutely clear to me right now is that this Israeli government is committing suicide, homicide and fratricide.
It is destroying Israel’s standing in the world, it is killing Gazan civilians with seemingly no regard for innocent human life, and it is tearing apart Israeli society and world Jewry, between those Jews who want to still stand with Israel no matter what and those who can no longer tolerate, explain or justify where this Israeli government is taking the Jewish state and now want to distance themselves from it.
I was struck by this paragraph in The Times’s story from Israel on Monday about the Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza, killing at least 20 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry — including five journalists who worked for international media outlets, plus medics and several others: “The Israeli military said it had carried out a strike in the area of Nasser Hospital, without saying what the target was. The statement said the military regretted ‘any harm to uninvolved individuals,’ adding that its chief of staff had ordered an immediate inquiry.”
Obviously sensing that many around the world were appalled by this explanation — I mean, how many times have we heard this? — the office of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, issued a rare statement of contrition, saying that “Israel deeply regrets the tragic mishap.”
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Editor: Reader only 1030 words left of this shit! But the final two paragraphs embraces, indeed releases all the toxic devils that Thomas L. Friedman helped to spaun: ‘I will leave it to historians to debate whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza’ Equivocation is the Master Key, employed by Friedman, that leaves himself without blame!
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It is also going to rip apart the Democratic Party, between those who are afraid to defy the influential Israeli lobbying group AIPAC, for fear of losing campaign funding to their Republican opponents, and those who just can’t stand it any longer.
Alas, if this is geopolitical suicide, as I believe, it has become assisted suicide. There is one person who could stop it all right now, and that is President Trump. I hope that I am wrong, but I fear that — just as Trump was duped by Vladimir Putin into giving up on a cease-fire in Ukraine and opting instead for the chimera of total peace — Trump has been duped by Netanyahu into giving up on a cease-fire in Gaza in pursuit of Bibi’s fantasy of “total victory.”
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