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November 8, 2022

Israel Won’t Ever Be the Country of American Fantasies—Nor Should It Aspire to Be

The Israel Tom Friedman knew never existed.

Following last week’s election, the veteran Middle East reporter Thomas Friedman authored a New York Times column under the headline “The Israel We Knew Is Gone,” full of dire predictions about what will befall the Jewish state now that its citizens have returned its longest-serving prime minister to power. Daniel Gordis dissects the column’s faulty assumptions and misguided conclusions, which distill misconceptions that plague much American commentary on Israel:

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