(4/6/99)"...that "people tend to change their minds and adjust their goals as they see the price they are paying mount. Twelve days of surgical bombing was never going to turn Serbia around. Let's see what 12 weeks of less than surgical bombing does. Give war a chance".--Thomas Freedman

The disgusting piece of walking puke, aka Friedman, has been advocating the FU for years.

Hey, Thomas Friedman I suggest you come into this comment thread, under your own name, and try to defend your on the record statements to an audience who is willing to not only read your comments, but - you might not be accustomed to this - to reply to what they read from from you.

The hypocrisy that Mr. Greenwald suggest is astonishing. He condemns nations that retaliate militarily to al-Quida or Hamas indiscriminate bombardment of civilians. In coffee shops, on buses or in the streets. He implies, we should negotiate with these groups. Or simply not react at all. As if that is possible or would elicit peace-driven results. So from now on, any militant-gang that disagrees with nation's policy, would have a stake in policy by means of the gun. Isn't that a perfect delineation of Anarchy. Yet that would be perfectly plausible according to Mr. Geenwald. At what point does this demonic logic end. And in what light does that embody, the realm of a state to protect it's population. The other simplistic notion Mr. Greenwald alludes to. Is the fact that if a nation sells arms to a client-state. It assume responsibility over the client's military action. So the manufacturer or seller of a gun, is completely responsible for a customer's acts. And not the criminal that actually pulls the trigger. Brilliantly analysis and logic Mr. Greenwald. Just goes to show, anybody can pontificate or write articles.

Yes, to Vlad the Impaler.

Yes, to Stalin.

Yes, to Hitler.

Yes, to Beezlebub.

Yes, to Pol Pot,

Yes, to even Sarah Palin,

But Tom Friedman???

NO!

I repel in horror and disgust at your suggestion.

On the internet, you cannot throw a pie in someone's face.

I saw nothing like this in the article your referencing.

NO!

I repel in horror and disgust at your suggestion.

-- something stinks

On second thought, you have a point. We are in agreement. "NO!"

Teach the american leaders a lesson by inflicting heavy casualties on the american public.

I part ways with you on that. Israel most definitely has a right to exist. I have never been there and would not wish away a country I have never even visited.

In what form, exactly, is a different question. I'd like to see one state, as well. But if not, oh well. I don't have a vote.

You are a scholar and a gentleman.

If you shall ever run for President, I shall vote for you twice.

sigmundsquirrel: I disagree strongly with Glenn when he says that Israel does not or may not intend to kill civilians. Quite obviously they are and they do.

glenn: I didn't say this. I simply said that the mere fact that Friedman believes that Israel acts with a certain motive and should do so is not proof that this is, in fact, what motivates Israel. Just because Friedman thinks Israel is acting with terrorist aims and supports this approach doesn't mean that this is what Israel is doing.

You are, of course, right. I tweaked your position to create my hyperbolically direct headline, "Glenn is wrong" when in fact I AGREE with your entire article. I would only add that while Thomas Friedman's assertions don't make it true, Israel's actions do.

As Jonny Depp might ask ""Was you there, Charlie?". The exact 8000 is just amazing but as the death toll in Gaza has gone beyond 1000 the Zionists on this thread will be able to figure out whether this is a fair rate of exchange and I've no idea how many shekels are the equivalent of an American dollar. I'll have to go now before I'm turned into a pillar of salt, even though I'm not Lot's wife.

My admiration and respect for Mr. Greenwald grows daily as I read his column. The openness with which Friedman and others express satisfaction with the humanitarian nightmare being rained down on the Palestinians is riveting and frightening. In the end, it all seems to boil down to racism - belief that Palestinian lives (as well as most others) are infinitely less important than those of Jews. It's the chosen people syndrome turned inside out, breathing fire and sowing righteous destruction upon all those with the temerity to resist. The entire scenario is, in fact, a nightmare that will please only the Christian Fundamentalists who yearn for the Rapture.

This objection ("why are you complaining about Israel but not the rebels in Sri Lanka?")..."

Well, one answer to that is, "Because the topic of this article is Israel, not the rebels in Sri Lanka."

So, a Zionist Jew (Thomas Friedman) advocates killing innocent women and children. Imagine my shock. I am sooooo surprised.

And now fucktwit Olmert is running around telling everybody he made Rice abstain her vote on a UN resolution. Yeah. Israel doesn't control our foreign policy. It's just a conspiracy theory. Right?

Welcome to the United States of Israel. Yer fuckin' Nazis now. Own up, bitches. Own up.

beyond the tragic reality that the US administration and congress obediently approve, before the fact or retroactively everything Israel does, a fundamental reality underlines Israel's treatment of the people under her booth. The Israeli Jews are incredibly racist. Spend one day, and if you speak Hebrew all you need are a few hours among Israelis, and you'll find out how racist they are and that most of them consider the Palestinians to be sub-humans. Be in the stands of a soccer stadium when the visiting team has Arab players and listen to the racist epitaphs when they touch the ball. Listen to the horrible curses aimed at Arab men on a Tel Aviv street suspected of ogling a Jewish girl, often followed by a thorough thrashing. If you speak Hebrew and have an opportunity to watch a routine day in an Israeli check pint in the West Bank, you'll learn the colloquial Hebrew word:"djukim", meaning cockroaches, by which the Israeli soldiers refer to the Arabs passing through the check point. The Israeli government is as racist as the Israeli public, and everything else follows.