Never thought I’d see the day when the world’s most influential newspaper would take it upon itself to incite a pogrom -- but here it is in the pages of The New York Times, May 24/25, as Tom Friedman in his column “Lessons From Tahrir Square,” finds inspiration from Julius Streicher’s Der Sturmer.
Streicher, in his newspaper of the 1930s, knew how to inflame and so does Friedman who has broken his pledge as a newsman to assume the role of an instigator.
Here’s a man (and a newspaper) that has the power to ignite stampedes in the service of annihilating a particular country, namely Israel – and this match has now been lit.
Who knows what chaos may come from the long arm of this deceitful, irresponsible and reckless type of journalism.
Kristallnacht – Night of Broken Glass, November 9/10, 1938 – came as a result of combustible speeches and newspaper articles...exactly like Friedman’s. Hitler’s SA Stormtroopers rioted through the streets of Germany and Austria destroying all that was Jewish. German and Austrian citizen-mobs, drunk on hate fueled by propaganda, joined the fun of plunder and murder. They too had a cause, they too had grievances, which they have passed on to their next of kin.
Friedman, who in this world holds three Pulitzers along with Yasser Arafat’s Nobel for Peace, invokes Lara Logan’s Tahrir Square in goading thousands of Arab Palestinians to “peacefully” and “non-violently” march on Jerusalem to demand their rights toward a two-state “solution” – and whatever else is troubling them.
As if this slippery Friedman doesn’t know the odds against “peaceful” and “non-violent” when a mob gets assembled.
Yes indeed, try Tahrir Square where they gang-raped CBS’s Lara Logan as an afterthought to their Arab Spring and where bloodthirsty crowds shouted Death to the Jews. In Friedman’s words, “If Palestinians peacefully march to Jerusalem by the thousands every Friday with a clear message…”
EVERY Friday? Every single Friday? Kristallnacht was enough for one night. Tom Friedman wants a pogrom once a week.
Nakba every week for this New York Times stormtrooper.
Why would Friedman and his Times agitate “against them that are quiet in the land?” (King David again.) Who gave the signal?
(Certainly not the White House – ya think?)
Listen – I thought I was through taking on the Times (see “What Would Abe Rosenthal Say About NYT Today” and “Abbas,NYT – Perfect Together”), but as Michael Corleone says in Godfather III – “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” In one of these INN op-eds I said that every word published in the Times is a lie and brother was I wrong.
No, it’s there in black and white. The Times, whose grudge against the Jewish State has no end, truly means to inflame malcontents to swarm Israel until Israel submits.
That much is absolute.
So what happens when Arabs get the message to get stirred up? Check out Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain, Syria and Yemen.
Blood happens.
It happens when flotillas breach Israel’s waters and when Nakba thugs, collecting themselves from all sides, breach Israel’s land.
Tom – we’re not idiots. We know what you have in mind. YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOUR PLAN GOES THROUGH.
There will be blood – blood on your hands.