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Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/10/06/kristof-tom-friedman-israel/
Friends Don't Let Friends Write Like Thomas Friedman
(Commentary) Seth Mandel - "Helping" Israel by bashing it repeatedly is a time-honored tradition among Israel's "friends" in the media. "Friends don't let friends drive drunk," says Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, imploring Israel to stop building homes for Jews in Jerusalem. Here was Thomas Friedman last year reacting to the news Israel planned to build more homes for Jews in Jerusalem: "Friends don't let friends drive drunk." Kristof whitewashes Palestinian violence, blames Israel for Turkey's turn away from the West, and scolds Israel for building new homes in areas he full well knows will be part of Israel in any peace deal. In fact, the latest round of building that upsets Kristof is taking place not in eastern Jerusalem, but in southwest Jerusalem - west, in fact, of the Knesset.