So who does Friedman really identify with? A representative sample of his utterances make this quite clear: he considers himself to belong to about 5% of the Israeli population: the settlers and the extreme Right.
HERE ARE some of his outstanding opinions;
...The Arab citizens of Israel, some 21% percent of the population, should be stripped of their citizenship. Rather like stripping all African-Americans of their US citizenship.
...There is no "Two-State Solution." Even mentioning such a possibility verges on treason. (Since I have been accused of having been the first to voice this solution in 1949, this is more spit I have to wipe from my face.)
...No settler must be allowed to be removed from his "home," even if this "home" is located on the private property of Arab farmers.
...In Greater Israel, from the sea to the river, Jews constitute a majority of 65%. This is a blatant lie: In this territory, including the Gaza Strip, the Arabs already constitute a majority.
...Future President Trump should be encouraged to dismiss all State Department personnel who advocate the Two-State Solution.
...Palestinians are corrupt.
...President Barak Obama is a "blatant antisemite."
...Bashar al-Assad and Binyamin Netanyahu should be friends. Probably including Vladimir Putin -- a winsome trio, Indeed.
...We need a World War against Islamic anti-Semitism.
...American and Israeli Jews who support the Israeli peace camp are worse than Kapos. (Kapo, short for Kamp-Polizei, or "camp police," were camp inmates enlisted by the Nazis to uphold order in the death-camps, until they themselves were put to death.) This applies specifically to the mild and inoffensive "J Street" organization.
It also, of course, includes me.
IF YOU were inclined to laugh out loud at some of these definitions, don't. This is no laughing matter.
David Friedman is a serious person. He is a famous bankruptcy lawyer. But he is not being sent here to deal with the bankruptcy of the Netanyahu regime. On the contrary, he is sent to facilitate the setting up of an Israel government in which Netanyahu would constitute the extreme left. And this is not even an exaggeration.
Since 1967, the Israeli peace camp has prayed for the US to save Israel from itself. Every new president has been greeted with high hopes. Here is the man who will compel the government of Israel to give up the Palestinian territories and make peace with the Palestinians and the entire Arab world.
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