Tom Friedman of the New York Times opens this week's GPS with fascinating insights into current events in the Middle East. He analyzes the dueling speeches of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama, assess the chances of peace in the Middle East and thinks through future scenarios in Egypt, Syria and Libya.
Perhaps the biggest question mark in the Arab world is what happens next in Saudi Arabia. Obama didn't even mention that country in his “Arab Spring” speech. So Fareed sits down with Saudi Prince Al-Waleed this week. Will the revolution reach the House of Saud? Will it be crushed? Bribed away? Al-Waleed has some fascinating answers.
According to Forbes, Al-Waleed is also the 26th richest man in the world with significant investments in the U.S. So Fareed asks whether he is confident about investing in America.
Finally - the price of oil. If there was ever a "central banker of oil" it's the Saudis. Fareed asks: Will prices continue to go up?
Finally, Fareed sits down with the President of the Central Bank of Kansas, Thomas Hoenig. A rare contrarian on the Fed, Hoenig explains why he thinks the Fed is making a mistake by keeping interest rates low.
Tune in this Sunday at 10a.m. ET/PT.
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Just remember, Prince Al-Waleed's favorite news channel is Fox!
USA must respect,take care the differences,specialist of other civilization,especially Middle East,Saudi Arabis,
Where the Islam respect the human rights,life AS a simple proof the rate of crimes at Saudi Arabia less than any Western country.
The crime rate in North Korea is much lower than in Saudi Arabia. Islam is not allowed there and human rights are non-existing.
The crime rate in North Korea is much lower than in Saudi Arabia. Islam is not allowed there and human rights are non-existing. Further, if you believe that human rights are respected in Saudi Arabia then it means that WOMEN are not human.
sorry no one cares for a nut country like north korea.
but yes it is true that saudi arabia and the arab gulf countries do have a much lower crime rate than all western nations.
still saudi arabia should be like the other 50+ Muslim nations which ALL ALLOW women to drive.
Drivers licenses are common for women in Iran, Kuwait, UAE, Malaysia, etc etc. the other 50 or so Muslim countries just not Saudi Arabia. So people shouldn't put religion as a blame factor for Saudi Arabia's Saudi cultural act. (not religious.)
So how do we know what the crime rate in North Korea is? We don't know anything about North Korea.
Two of the smartest and most reasonable people in the world.God,they must feel lonely.
Am I to accept that the Saudi royal family takes alternative energy sources seriously when the rest of the world does not? Gimme a break!
Well, the Iranian leaders say that they don't only take these "alternative (to oil) sources" seriously but that they're developing nuclear technology for peaceful purposes spending considerable part of their limited budget on it while the Iranian people have to pay pretty high prices for imported gasoline.
I find it strange, that the royal family in Saudi Arabia rather showers with subsidies to keep its people quiet, than creates jobs, enables them to make a meaningful living, so that they can be proud of themselves. Life must be more than just to eat, pray and sleep. A few other countries in the region there face the same problems. I hope the ruling elites can read the writing on the wall and start to reform their social structure.
Sorry what is the purpose of life ?
tom friedman is an idiot. he kept repeating soundbites, rather than have a conversation about what the other side has to say. he makes declarations of what the problem is, then cuts her off before she can answer the question he's just asked, when she says something he doesn't like. He should go work for fox news.
How do you sleep at night when you say you are a journalist but so one sided and biased towards your beliefs? Your job is to provide us with accurate non biased news and let us make our own opinions. I am so sick of you, and oth so called journalists in both the liberal and conservative sides. But seems like msnbc and CNN are way worst than fox. Msnbc being pretty much unwatchable.
As a jihadist apologist, to watch you blast Israel for not agreeing to its own suicide is outrageous. We know your definition of "peace": the destruction of Israel. Not everyone who sees your propaganda is an ignorant "Dhimmi"
Fareed,
Your view of Israel has a major flaw in understanding. The Palestinians do not want a state, they want the land that is currently called Israel. Give them a state and they will NOT be happy until they get all of Jerusalem and control too. They have said publicly, we do not recognize Israel's right to exist. They have show an un-willingness to be civil, they use suicide bombers. If the Palestinians want peace, lay down the guns and seek citizenship in Israel. Share the land, but only one group can be in control of the same piece of land. The Palestinian refugees formed when the Arab states refused to take them in years ago. They refused to live in peace on the land, now they have to live with their decisions. They got a wall, they got poverty since war was their only concern. It is the Arabs that need to change course.
Uh, have any of you ever seen those shekel coins that have a HUGE map of Eretz Israel on it??? It completely swallows ALL of Palestine, the Sinai, ALL of Lebanon, most of Syria, nearly half of Iraq and all of Jordan. It's not ONLY the Palestinians who want to totally eradicate enemy states!! AND this is an OFFICIAL coin, for the whole world to SEE.
The reason that so many collegiate student councils generally support the Palestinian side in this debate, is the same reason why so many college students generally have "lefty" political points of view, and that is because they know nothing else because they are taught nothing else whle at school. They have been brainwashed/manipulated by highly partisan "lefty" faculty members into believing distorted/dishonest propaganda which the faculty passes off as truth/fact!!!
it is not until students leave university/college and enter the real world that they will be exposed to the other side of the story on many of these issues, and then make an honest evaluation as to who really has the "moral high ground".
Tom Friedman seems to believe that whatever these college students believe today will stay with them for the rest of their lives, and only a highly partisan, dishonest idiot would try and make that argument.
And Tom, "If the shoes fits, wear it!!!
Nixon – do you know who rings the church bells in Bethlehem's nativity church??? Palestinian Arab Christians. Bet you didn't even know that. Maybe those kids aren't the only ones who are getting a one sided story.
And your point is???
whats a Palestinian Arab Christian? is that like a jumbo shrimp
How great to be a college student again. Drinking all night, Screwing as many girls as possible and listening to the Dead. Talking about the world injustices and blah blah blah. One day you wake up and realize that those people you want to help, hate you and want to kill you. Islam is not peaceful, Arabs don't want to assimilate to any culture and the sooner we wake up to the fact that in 3 generations they will have out bread everyone the sooner we can STOP being so PC and end this stupidity. BTW democracy in a Muslim country is absurd and dangerous
R. Nixon is right.
Fareed's program on Netanyahu's speech to the US Congress was poorly conceived. He is left wing and an apologist for the Islamists and he had on his program a left wing Jew that must be brain damaged to talk about how the students on campuses around the country would have received the talk of Netanyahu without mentioning the $ millions that Arabs have spent on propaganda at US Colleges and Universities as documented by Mitchell Bard, "The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America's Interests in the Middle East" He prefers to rely on the reactions of students who have been brainwashed by Professors bribed with Arab money. to the reaction of quite knowledgeable US Senators and Congressmen, Democrats and Republicans alike. A much more interesting program would have resulted had he had as his guest Melanie Phillips of the British Spectator, or Caroline Glick of the Jeruselem Post, or even Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Jounal who know a little of the history of the Middle East Conflict and can put it in context. Netanyahu gave an excellent speech but an even better one had been written for him by right wing MK Katz (Ketsaleh) that had more of that history
that you can find on the Internet at:
http://israelinsider.net/forum/topics/mk-yaakov-katz-ketsaleh-the
Both Fareed and Tom need a little history lesson on the Middle East. Here's one for them by Dennis Miller, who is not Jewish:
"A brief overview of the situation is always valuable, so as a service to all Americans who still don't get it, I [Dennis Miller] now offer you the story of the Middle East in just a few paragraphs, which is all you Really need.
Here we go:
The Palestinians want their own country. There's just one thing about that: There are no Palestinians . It's a made up word. Israel was called Palestine for two thousand years. Like 'Wiccan,' 'Palestinian' sounds ancient but is really a modern invention. Before the Israelis won the land in the 1967 war, Gaza was Owned by Egypt , the West Bank was owned by Jordan , and there were no Palestinians.'
[As I have document in an article shown below, the term "Palestinians" to described the Arabs local to Palestine was actually invented by the Soviet KGB in 1964. Dennis is three years off.]
As soon as the Jews took over and started growing oranges as big as basketballs, what do you know, say hello to the 'Palestinians,' weeping for their deep bond with their lost 'land' and 'nation.'
So for the sake of honesty, let's not use the word 'Palestinian' any more to describe these delightful folks, who dance for joy at our deaths until someone Points out they're being taped. Instead, let's call them what they are: 'Other Arabs Who Can't Accomplish Anything In Life And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal Struggle And Death.' I know that's a bit unwieldy to expect to see on CNN. How about this, then: 'Adjacent Jew-Haters .' Okay, so the Adjacent Jew-Haters want their own country. Oops, just one more thing: No, they don't . They could've had their own country.
Anytime in the last thirty years, especially several years ago at Camp David . [Dennis is a little off again. The British offered the Arabs self rule as early as 1917 during WWI if they helped the WWI Allies against the Ottoman Turks, who had been their ruler for some 400 years. Those in the Arabian Peninsula, with T.E. Lawrence, did help the Allies and got their own country. The Arabs local to Palestine fought for the Ottomans against the Allies, rejecting self rule. Count Folke Bernadotte, in preparing for the UNSCOP hearing, wrote in his diary in 1948 that the local arabs had no interest in self rule, and Zahir Muhsein, a member of the executive board of the PLO in 19 73 told the Dutch Newspaper Trouw after admitting that the term "Palestinian People" was not real, but only used for political purposes, said that just as soon as they had killed off all the Jews they would merge with Jordan.]
But If you have your own country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage trucks. And Chambers of Commerce, and, worse, you actually have to figure out some way to make a living.
That's no fun. No, they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the region want: Israel . They also want a big pile of dead Jews, of course that's where the Real fun is - but mostly they want Israel .
Why? For one thing, trying to destroy Israel – or 'The Zionist Entity' as their Textbooks call it - for the last fifty years has allowed the rulers of Arab Countries to divert the attention of their own people away from the fact that they're the blue-ribbon most illiterate, poorest, and tribally backward on God's Earth, and if you've ever been around God's Earth, you know that's really saying something.
It makes me roll my eyes every time one of our pundits waxes poetic about the great history and culture of the Muslim Mid east. Unless I'm missing something, the Arabs haven't given anything to the world since Algebra, and, by the way, thanks a hell of a lot for that one.
Chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred million Arabs; five Million Jews.
Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and Israel as a pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone will be pals..
Really? Wow, what neat news.
Hey, but what about the string of wars to obliterate the tiny country and the constant din of rabid blood oaths to drive very Jew into the sea? Oh, that? We were just kidding.
My friend, Kevin Rooney, made a gorgeous point the other day: Just reverse the Numbers. Imagine five hundred million Jews and five million Arabs. I was stunned at the simple brilliance of it. Can anyone picture the Jews strapping belts of razor blades and dynamite to themselves? Of course not.
Or marshaling every fiber and force at their disposal for generations to drive a tiny Arab State into the sea? Nonsense.
Or dancing for joy at the murder of Innocents? Impossible.
Or spreading and believing horrible lies about the Arabs baking their bread with the blood of children? Disgusting.
No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews would ever do to people is debate them to death.
However, in any big-picture strategy, there's always a danger of losing moral weight. We've already lost some. After September 11th our president told us and the world he was going to root out all terrorists and the countries that supported them. Beautiful. Then the Israelis, after months and months of having the equivalent of an Oklahoma City every week (and then every day) start to do the same thing we did, and we tell them to show restraint.
If America were being attacked with an Oklahoma City every day, we would all very shortly be screaming for the administration to just be done with it and kill everything south of the Mediterranean and east of the Jordan ."
To get an even more informed view of Middle East History, including a showing that the "peace process" is nothing but a charade, see:
Brand, Soviet Russia, The Creators of the PLO and the Palestinian People, http://www.think-israel.org/brand.russiatheenemy.html
Brand, Israeli Sovereignty over Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, http://www.think-israel.org/brand.jewishsovereignty.html
Brand, The Third Wave, http://www.think-israel.org/brand.thirdwave.html
It is amazing how many lies you can put in your paragraphs.
Truth is the Arabs are finally now just as sick of this constant uncertainity and war like environment between Israel and the Arabs. That's why they came out with a genuine statement of full recognition of Israel is they ended apartheid and racism by going back to the 1967 borders.
And it isn't the Arabs fault that the Jews fled to Europe fleeing from the Romans in Israel back 4000 years ago.
Now you come back after 4000 years after you haven't lived there claiming that Arab land as being your birth right land? Based on WHAT? Your religion? you are then are racist, religious nut and Judeo Fundamentalist!!
You can't claim land based on religion that way without calling your self a religious nut job making the world more insecure by your anti human rights activities.
Israel is a state sponsor of terrorism and the reason it is so is because of the misunderstood and radicallized teachings of the Torah mixed with the highly racist ideology of Zionism.
Israel needs to rid itself of racist PM like Netanyahu if it is serious about making peace!
You have so many facts wrong, that it is sad. 4000 years ago? Here is some real history, rather than your imagination: The first Jews were just settling into the Land of Canaan around 3700 years ago. The Romans destroyed Jerusalem, crucified thousands of Jews, and banished thousands more from the land, which they renamed Palestine almost 2000 years ago. The banished Jews did not just go to Europe. Many went to countries that were later conquered by the Arabs and forced to adopt Islam (Persia, Iraq, Egypt, etc). Others never left Judea, as it had been known. When the Jews wanted to return to the Land of Israel, starting in the late 1800's, they did not come in and start conquering the land. They bought land. Initially, some of the local Arabs thought that this was fine and even welcomed the Jews, returning from Europe AND the Middle East to "Palestine". However, the Ottoman Turks, then the rulers, made this difficult. Some of the leaders of the local Arab population (it was then considered to be part of Syria) did not want Jews coming in and settling, even when they bought the land. Most of the land that the Arab population lost was after they declared war on the Jews, after the UN decided in 1947 to partition Palestine into 2 states: one of Jews and one for Arabs. And, to this day, as Abba Eban said: "The Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity." Since 1948, Israel took in 600,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries. The Arab countries, except for Jordan, have kept the Palestinian refugees and their descendents in refugee camps and denied them citizenship. Israel will never agree to take in these refugees. Until the Arab countries and the West Bank Palestinians decide to solve the Arab refugee problem which they created and perpetuate to this day, the Palestinians will always have an excuse not to make peace with Israel.
you need serious help sir you are a sick man.tom is big supporter of israel and because he said something you don't like right the way he is a left wing anti israel jew hater ,amazing narrow minded people like you wallace ...young arab democracy is america's best intrest and israel's nightmare because isreali politicians can't keep selling lies about being the only democracy in the mid east.us americans are sick and tired of the mid east give the palestinians their occupied land back 67 border and leave us alone.
YOUNG ARAB DEMOCRACY, JUMBO SHRIMP, PEACEFUL ISLAM. ALL HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON : OXYMORON
It makes me roll my eyes every time one of our pundits waxes poetic about the great history and culture of the Muslim Mid east. Unless I'm missing something, the Arabs haven't given anything to the world since Algebra, and, by the way, thanks a hell of a lot for that one. HOW FREAKING HILARIOUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEST POST OF THE DAY
The 'realpolitk' data suggests that if every Arab country becomes democratic, how will Israel stay 1/2 democratic and 1/2 autocratic? If both Palestinian governments prevented all further attacks on Israeli citizens, and Israel allowed all Palestinians to become citizens as a result, Mr. Netanyahu would have his peace and Israel would become more than 'a state of mind', which is all it is right now.
Fareed,
As always, your show today ( 5/29/11) was pretty interesting. But I felt you were not correct in your depiction of how nations invoke rains. Both of us are Indian Americans and we know Indians also use scientific methods of rain seeding for over two decades. However, you chose to mention the Hindu religious way of invoking rain Gods which I felt was incorrect and incomplete. While China ( as per your show) uses missiles for cloud seeding, India uses aircrafts and helicopters to spray chemicals for seeding which looks more scientific. Being a scientist and technology professional, I wanted to just get this straight.
Keep up the good work and avoid these gaps.
29MAR11 FZ, i hope that you ask for forgiveness for what you siad about Israel this morning... and your guest also. If you do not repent now... I wonder what you will say when you are kneeling in front of Jesus? Wake up !!! And you and your guest are on a first name basis with Mr. Netanyahu? At least have some respect for yourself... what a pitiful attempt to profile propaganda by CNN and FuZee... SHAMEFUL
Tom Friedman said to test and test and test again. He said to suspend settlement construction for six months(Mr. President, this Bud's for you).Israel tested several times and each time the Arabs failed the test, wye river, Taba, Olmert. Give up land, look at Gaza. Suspend building. Did that for nine months, no negotiation, no Bud.
It's simple. Recognize Israel' right to exist as a Jewish democratic state and sit down and negotiate the rest.
Someone doesn't want to recognize Israel's right to exist. The same people never granted citizenship to Arabs, their children grand children and great grand children who left Israel after independence.
Whose fa
Sorry
Whose fault is that?
I would have felt better about the objectivity of the interview if you had challenged some of Friedman's statements at least as much as you challenged the Saudi prince who followed.
Fifteen minutes of talk with a Saudi prince, and not a mention of women in Saudi Arabia! Appalling.
After Zakaria published an anti-Netanyahu screed in the WaPo, I submitted a comment emphasizing, among other things, the two-thousand year importance of a united Jerusalem to the Jews, as well my opinion that Netanyahu, far from some "ward healer," as I believe Zakaria called him, represented the heart and sole of the Jewish people. I also stated that it appeared to me that Zakaria had no feeling of the importance of this matter to the Jews and in fact probably would not scream to hard if those pesky Jews were forced again to walk into the gas chambers ( i.e., Israel was forced into a position where its Jewish character could be eliminated). After being allowed to stand for a while, and receiving about 15 recommendations, (and much criticism from Zakaria supporteers) the Post removed my comment.
Today Zakaria dodged the attack mode re Netnyahu, and had a liberal far left leaning Jew, Tom Friedman, lead the attack. They avoided Jerusalem and addressed only the settlements. This, of course, is a strawman because Israel is more than willing to address the settlements in negotiation. It was an attempt by Obama to limit Israel's negotiation position in advance that drew Netanyahu's ire, not any issue with respect to whether settlements would be addressed. Then there was Freidman insisting that Netanyhu insulted Obama by resisting the Obama approach and "lecturing" Obama on Israel. As to that, 1. no national leader in his right mind should allow a third party to dictate a weakened position prior to an existential negotitiation, and 2. as many times as I hear the conversation between Netanyahu and Obama in the Oval Office I can hear only a calm, polite reiteration of Israel's posiiton, hardly the "lecturing" that the lefties keep tryng to pin on Netanyahu. Finally, in commenting on the rousing reception Netanyahu received from a joint session of Congress, Friedman dismissed the Congress of the United States of America as, and I can't remember the exact words, something equivalent to dumbells and proclaimed they were in the pockets of AIPAC, a repeat of a claim used predominantly in these comment sessions by anti-semites.
Zakaria has no use for Israel and will use his considerable media weight to try to influence Israel's decline. Jews like Friedman, and Joe Klien of Time Magazine for that matter, should be ashamed of themselves and will eventaully have to live with the consequences to their own people.
Mr. Zakaria claims that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not truly favor a Palestinain state (5/29), and "proves" his point by playing clips from a Naetanyahu speech that is 33 years old. Isn't that what logicians call the 'straw man' fallacy? Why not just debate a Netanyahu puppet?
Everytime I give CNN another chance I am sorry I did . It is clear that Zakaria has no love for Israel. He never did and he never will .Friedman who hasn't been right about anything in the last five years was laughable . Friedman bragged that the Anti- Israel and Pro-Terrorist propaganda machine alive and well in our American Universities will not breed a new generation of Pro-Israel Americans. Hopefully there will be some independent thinkers among our young students able to overcome the brainwash that old brilliant Tom Friedman relishes. I can't wait for CNN's election coverage . At least MSNBC doesn't pretend to be unbiased .God bless Israel . Death to the great satan CNN.
Excellent show, as usual. VERY impressed with Prince Al-Waleed. Perhaps we could learn from Saudi Arabia...seems they know a few things about succession planning... Democracy is still an experiment. Grid lock seems to rule, and foreign special interests...
It was nice to know who the leaders on the horizon are. Gives me hope.
Desperate for truth (teegee)
I am a big fan of Fareed that's why I get so fustrated whenever he speaks to an Arab guest. This morning you spoke to another rich arab (Saudi) prince...where once again your journalistci skills, integrity & inntellect all tanked.
Anyway, I MUST ask you, why don't you ever ask your rich well selected Arab friends why it is that in most if not all the Arab coutries they practice a system of racial heirarchy where Indians & Africans from all the different African countries are systematicall placed at the bottom of the totum pole for employment or just basic humanity ????
I'm so puzzeled by your embrasing them because you cannot separate them from their deeds. Be careful about falling for their flattering words of friendship. It could apply to the fact that you represent an American position of authority rather yourself as a simple creature of God. Would they treat you the same was if you were a laborer from Mumbai or Sudan?
Thanks
Go to youtube and watch three year old arab children call jews "apes and pigs" and look forward to become martyrs.From birth to death the so called "palestinians" are the sickest most disgusting people on earth.They are parasites recieving more aid than any other people on this planet.They don't want peace, they want all jews dead period.All jews on earth,Canada USA Asia Europe etc etc.Israel has one tenth of one per cent of the land of the muslums.But it is way too much.They need to be destroyed.How dare the Israelis invent the computer chip, the cellphone, drip irrigation etc etc.The koran says kill the Jews, so the Jews must die.It is not about land , almost all demands were met by Bill Clinton,but Yasser Arafat ,king of the "palestinians" born in Cairo, walked away, no counter offer .Let me repeat. they don't want peace, they want all Jews dead.
what about young jewish setllers and what the y do to innocent palestinian stundents .you think you can fool all the people with u tube .you can control corrupt politicians and arab dictators but not good people around the world we watch u tube and we see the crimes against humanity committed by israeli soliders .it's not only arabs who do killings you are no angels and not fooling me.
Fareed,
I like your show a lot and try not to miss it. I have one question following your interview with Prince Al-Waleed:
Why didn't you press the Prince on Saudi forces being deployed to Bahrain recently? I would have loved to hear his response. Thanks, keep up the great work at CNN and time.com!
All the best,
Jon Cody
Fareed, You did not bring up the fact the 19 terrorists on 9/11 were mostly Saudis. Why? You did not bring up the fact the Osama Bin laden was a Saudi. Why? Did you ask him why there are US troops stationed in Saudi Arabia protecting the Saudi family from it's own people? Wahabi teachings and twisted interpretations of Quran generated in Saudi Arabia is the main cause of the terror for which American troops are sacrificing lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why did you not bluntly bring these up?
dear Fareed, you are doing a great job to show the world how sensitive america is to their concerns. In the middle east and afpak region, the usa is trying its best to reduce tensions. Saudi arabia will aalso change for the better as it progresses on the education front.
The problem seems to be in pakistan. Here the talebanis will surely take over their nukes , and use these against the usa, eu, and india. What should the usa do in advance to pre-empt such a disaster???
Fareed,
I am watching THIS week's GPS, and would you please stop calling Osama Bin Laden's death an "assassination?" The Rules of Engagement were only to kill him if he resisted arrest. He died because he resisted arrest. That is not an assassination. That is a military operation. Thanks.
Netanyahu: "America is Easy to Push Around (English Subtitles)"
Unfortunately, there was too much emphasis by Fareed Zakaria on what he perceives as Benjamin Netanyahu’s intransigence by not acceding to the President’s position vis-a-vis the 1967 boundary. Until the Palestinian’s show a real willingness to bargain seriously, there will never be peace in this region. I agree with Tom Friedman that Israel has to keep trying for it’s own sake, but Israel should not have to start its negotiations with instant concessions. Given that any talks will be like negotiations in a bazaar, Israel should not have to make concessions before it begins. It’s history with the Palestians has shown that even when it does negotiate and makes concessions, it is never enough for the other side, which to date, has not shown a willingness to meet half way.
Thanks Fareed. In honor of your opinion I will make further contributions to numerous Israeli charities that are building homes FOR JEWS all over Judea and Samaria. Way to go!
To all so called Xtian defenders of Israel, I have but ONE challenge for you. Spend One year with Christians living in the occupied West Bank. Then MAYBE you can talk. Until then, face it, you're just a tool. Oh and while you're at it, you might want to research the thousands of Jews worldwide who do not accept Israel as a heavenly manifestation but rather a man-made abomination-Just saying.
ID RATHER RESEARCH THE MILLIONS WHO THINK ISLAM IS AN ABOMINATION
I am a huge fan of Fareed's and a huge fan of Tom Friedman's agreeing with the great majority of what they say and write. However, the review of Netanyahu and his speech before Congress was a travesty. Fareed shows ONLY Netanyahu speaking 33 years ago! No excerpts from the speech to Congress. I recommend that everyone here listen to the original. You can find it on Youtube or Newsbusters.org (with transcript). Here are a couple of things that Netanyahu said:
"The peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan are vital. But they’re not enough. We must also find a way to forge a lasting peace with the Palestinians. Two years ago, I publicly committed to a solution of two states for two peoples: A Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state.
I am willing to make painful compromises to achieve this historic peace. As the leader of Israel, it is my responsibility to lead my people to peace.
This is not easy for me. I recognize that in a genuine peace, we will be required to give up parts of the Jewish homeland. In Judea and Samaria, the Jewish people are not foreign occupiers. We are not the British in India. We are not the Belgians in the Congo.
This is the land of our forefathers, the Land of Israel, to which Abraham brought the idea of one God, where David set out to confront Goliath, and where Isaiah saw a vision of eternal peace. No distortion of history can deny the four thousand year old bond, between the Jewish people and the Jewish land.
But there is another truth: The Palestinians share this small land with us. We seek a peace in which they will be neither Israel’s subjects nor its citizens. They should enjoy a national life of dignity as a free, viable and independent people in their own state. They should enjoy a prosperous economy, where their creativity and initiative can flourish."
These words completely contradict Netanyahu of 33 years ago. Fareed could have noted the difference. Instead, he just played the 33 year old video. Also, shame on Tom Friedman for not saying anything about the change in Netanyahu's positions. Fareed, did you actually listen to the speech or just read reports about it?
I was disappointed that Netanyahu made a big deal about his differences with Obama. In reality, Obama agrees with about 90 percent of what Netanyahu has publicly stated in recent weeks. Fareed was correct that this must have been done, in part, for consumption at home. Even so, I was more disappointed that Fareed was so negative about Netanyahu and his speech to Congress, a truly great speech, that deserved many standing ovations.
IM ACTUALLY NOT THAT DISAPPOINTED, IN FACT IT SHOWS FAREEDS TRUE STRIPES. I ASK MYSELF WHY HE KEEPS CALLING THE PRIME MINISTER BB, IS HE A PERSONAL FRIEND OR ON A FIRST NAME BASIS. WHAT A PIG. REMEMBER WHAT YOU ARE, A REPORTER. NOTHING MORE NOTHING LESS.
HI MR Hoffman...........I want to thank you for your comments above.....as you; I too was appaalled with Farred and his "take" on this whole Israel/Palestine situation.....and I agree with you that FOR SURE Fareed has shown his true colours..........ANd yes 33 years ago that's all he can come up with is an old video of BB from then to back up his own opinion? Friedman as well is IM thinking; he is a self loathing Jew..........and hey IM surprised Friedman isnt taking advantage of the next boat to Gaza (sponsered I may add by the union of Canada Post employees; Disgraceful!) for a big photo-op!!
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